Best Endeavour Quotes

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

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we’re exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It’s not physical – it’s all in the head.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

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

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

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.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

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.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

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

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

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

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

Poets themselves, tho’ liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

By how much unexpected, by so muchWe must awake endeavour for defence;For courage mounteth with occasion.

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that’s just the way it is.

…All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end…contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

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

I think for most people it’s hard to understand what it is about swimming – I mean, it’s such a solo endeavour.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact.

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.

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.