Top 171 Endeavor Quotes

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who’s never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don’t look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It’s often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn’t.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

To make any endeavor successful, you have to put that time and energy into something and work long hard days. Whether it’s on the weekends or at night. You have to be constantly looking to improve things.

I’ll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

It’s not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

You appear to have a good project… we wish you well in this endeavor.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it’s a pretty worthless endeavor.

This is the kingdom of God on the earth. Because of that, it has a power beyond any other endeavor in which humans can engage. That power depends on the faith of those called to serve in it.

I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It’s just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it’s a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor – and it’s one that I enjoy extremely.

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby – we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It’s part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

I have been driven by causes in almost every major endeavor in my life, beginning when I was a 16-year-old in Southern California where I wrote and published my own newspaper.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

After our successes on ‘H+,’ I’m thrilled to be returning to another digital endeavor with Bryan Singer, Jason Taylor, and the entire Bad Hat Harry team. We’re excited to be building the foundations of our world with Rockzeline and Blackpills.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

Being in your twenties and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life – with or without cancer – is a scary endeavor on its own.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization’s endeavor and progress.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.