Endeavour Quotations

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

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

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

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

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

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

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

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

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

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

Success supposes endeavour.

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

Mostly I've been inspired by my mother. She is extremely driven and always makes every endeavour sound exciting. I think most of the things I've accomplished are a result of knowing her.

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.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend / With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. / Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must / Disappointment all I endeavour end?

A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each other before many minutes have elapsed; but a man and a man will not do this, and even less so will a woman and a woman, for these are parallel lines which will never meet.

I want to give my total commitment to the Australian people that I will endeavour to be a governor general of the people and for the people.

On behalf of the crew on Alpha, I'd like to commend Endeavour and its crew for the tremendous technical challenge and the great achievements ... I can't think of a mission that we've flown in a long time that's been a bigger challenge.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

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.

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

The impoverishing effects of the system were early obvious, and to the endeavour to account for the increasing difficulty of obtaining food.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

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