Endeavor Quotes

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

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

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.

The state team is committed to working with our federal partners in meeting the needs of Floridians who were affected by Hurricane Wilma. We want to be as thorough as possible in this vital endeavor.

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.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.

Worship is an endeavor to bring to God that which costs you something.

Fighting in cities is a totally different endeavor than obviously fighting out in the open.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.