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

Too narrow a definition tends to complicate any endeavour. — Steven Redhead

We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge. — Alain De Botton

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

By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occasion. — William Shakespeare

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour. — Vincent Lombardi

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. — Stephanie Rice

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. — Richard Steele

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not. — Marcus Aurelius

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

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does. — Jeremiah Burroughs

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

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

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform. — Xenophon

Strive to have the faith of a child; endeavour to have the wisdom of an elder. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Discipline is required in all human endeavours. — Sunday Adelaja

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. — Albert Einstein

The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next. — Robert Harris

Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. — Mary Shelley

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good ... it must always have a cost. — William Golding

Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs Ape. — Evelyn Waugh

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. — Rudolf Steiner

Above all, the earth is moving in a void. All efforts of man to improve it are a vain endeavour. — Sibaprasad Dutta

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly. — Robert Schumann

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get. — Bill Bryson

No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genius is the ability to push one's limits beyond the limits each time, every endeavour. — Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. — Elbert Hubbard

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them - if they are above my station, I must endeavour to conceal them. — Jane Austen

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
remember that
and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. — Herman Melville

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone. — Iain Reid

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process. — Martin Scorsese

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances. — Mahatma Gandhi

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. — Thomas Browne

Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind. — Matthew Arnold

In every endeavour, it is man or woman with unbreakable will who excels — Eknath Eswaran

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

Success supposes endeavour. — Jane Austen

As long as we persevere, we shall succeed in any endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour. — Ivan Klima

Like a warrior in the battlefield, a writer must endeavour to use his pen to stamp the paper with his identity. — Ogwo David Emenike

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.] — Horace

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

It is vain for painters ... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds

This is the problem of obtaining the co-operation of each individual in the joint endeavour of controlling our society. — Anonymous

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave. — Auliq Ice

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

Let us make an endeavour to live life in such a way that it becomes an example in itself which others can follow — Santosh Joshi

Life is an enduring endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? — Joyce Carol Oates

That which I might endeavour to find in other ways seeks me incessantly and gives itself to me through all creatures. — Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late — Christine Lagarde

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour. — Donald Knuth

Life is enduring endeavour — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime. — Andre Previn

Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out. -Elizabeth — Jane Austen

All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour. — P. J. O'Rourke

We naturally crave increase in all our endeavours — Sunday Adelaja

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country. — John C. Calhoun

Let us not fear our wild thoughts for they can give rise to wondrous contemplation, creative endeavour, life changing ideas, momentous bliss. — Jay Woodman

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

With persistent endeavour, you can fulfilled your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour. — Sunday Adelaja

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

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it. — Richard Steele

In every endeavour, we need God's grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour. — Ken Danby

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

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions ... — David Hume

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire. — Thomas Blood

That much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other ... — Margaret Cavendish

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

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss. — Seneca The Younger

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome. — Diane Dreher