Endeavour Quotes

• I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

  Richard Steele

  Motherhood, Looks, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Tatler”, p.105

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• The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

  Alvar Aalto

  People, Goal, House

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  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Decision, Firsts

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Past, Years

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.506

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• The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

  Annie Besant

  May, Our Actions, Morality

  Annie Wood Besant (2011). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”, p.154, Cambridge University Press

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• Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

  Martin Scorsese

  Creative, Matter, Wonderful

  "And we're rolling". Interview with Craig McLean, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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  I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ideas, Ordinary, Philosopher

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

  Aristide Briand

  Europe, Wish, Together

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• Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

  Elbert Hubbard

  Marriage, Literature, Polygamy

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Sides, Life Is

  'The Croker Papers' (1885) vol. 3, p. 276

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• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  David Brainerd

  Inspirational, Sobriety, Firsts

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Soul

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.760, Courier Corporation

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• I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Criticism, World, Definitions

  Essays in Criticism First Series, "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1865)

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• We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

  Mary Astell

  May, Ought

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.129, Broadview Press

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• Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Real, Moving

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Mean, Perfect, Firsts

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• This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

  Steve Fossett

  Want, Aviation, Flight

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• The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Giving, Youth

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• Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Path, Recognition

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• Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Virtue, Decency

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To a Lady' (1735) l. 163

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• In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Humanity, Pay

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.234, Hackett Publishing

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• I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

  Edward Jenner

  Inspire, Becoming, Inquiry

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• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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