Endeavor Quotations

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

A resource-poor country like Japan can only rely on people's endeavor and knowledge. I would like to continue my effort to provide help to younger people.

Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country,

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit 'how-to-parent' strategies both seductive and dangerous.

It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

This is the kingdom of God on the earth. Because of that, it has a power beyond any other endeavor in which humans can engage. That power depends on the faith of those called to serve in it.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,

We shall endeavor to activate and deepen our partnership with our allies of the Progressive Socialist Party and Tayyar Al Mustaqbal. Our hand will remain always stretched out to all,

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

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

The only one I know of who is active in any political endeavor is Vanessa Donaher.

The plans are still unfolding, but we knew it was going to be such a major endeavor that it didn't make sense to keep it open and inconvenience our guests and our employees.

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

Most people think we're crazy, ... But it's about learning different cultures and languages. Experiencing different food, meeting different people. These were hard decisions, to sell our stuff, to just leave. We're leaving family, too. But this endeavor allows us to be citizens of the world.

Peter has delivered outstanding performances in every endeavor he has undertaken since joining the company in 1985,

I am concerned about the recent evident weakening of support for free trade, ... Should we endeavor to freeze competitive progress in place, we will almost certainly slow economic growth overall.

But we have not yet decided if and when I will endeavor to go back.

China's National People's Congress is ready to join parliaments of other countries in making full use of this important stage of the IPU to carry out all forms of multilateral cooperation in a sustained endeavor to build a peaceful, prosperous and harmonious new world.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.

If a physician has higher costs than the revenue they bring in, it may be a blessing if they move their patients to our competitor. As an organization, we work very diligently at creating the best environment in our service area for our patients, our medical staff and our employees so when a physician moves his practice, it is at risk of reducing their patient load or the quality of care provided to the patient. We endeavor to work closely with our medical staff by providing data or resources necessary to develop positive outcomes for all. My personal desire is always to provide physicians with whatever product they need to practice but in return, we ask for their support in dealing with vendors in such a way that not only allows the physician a choice of product but also afford us a fair return on investment.

Unless Wal-Mart takes fashion and puts it on a pedestal which shouts 'Come and look at me!', this endeavor will take a lot of energy without the payoff.

I actually think that 'States of Union' will be a lifelong endeavor for me. It won't take up all my energy as it has in recent years, but I imagine that I will always continue to add to the body of work - the project of documentation will never be entirely complete.

It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

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.

The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.

will continue to pursue this endeavor to the end.

We don't endeavor to manipulate the bond market to act as a proxy, ... The major reason is we wouldn't know how.

We have spent hundreds of people hours up to this point and without even involving the teacher committees. It has been an expensive endeavor in terms of staff and faculty time.

virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

We haven't given up, nor will we give up. We will endeavor to see what we can do to reach an accommodation,

We are committed to working with DEQ as we endeavor to return our plant to full service and restore electric reliability to acceptable levels, while, importantly, protecting public health and the environment.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.

We consider this a great trust, not just from the member nations and the International Space Station program, but a great trust from all humanity, ... I think there is no greater endeavor for human beings than to explore.

We will endeavor to do all that we can for those stricken by these terrible natural disasters. The real tragedy is the over population and over breeding of all domestic pets. Our goal, wherever we may be, is Zero Population Growth, and the guarantee that all animals will have adequate veterinary care in times of extraordinary events for which the cost would be otherwise prohibitive.

We have to be successful in this endeavor because we -- if we're not successful it makes our job, in terms of evacuation and providing relief, even more dangerous and more difficult,

This was an ambitious endeavor by us to come all the way out here, but as it turns out now, I'm glad we did.

We will build on this to further increase the areas of agreement. Obviously, India's concerns in vital areas such as cross-border terrorism will have to find place in any document that future negotiations endeavor to conclude,

To start their own businesses is a major part of the national endeavor to promote employment and reemployment among the young people,

The opening of this telescope represents one of those rare moments in a field of scientific endeavor when a great leap forward is enabled.

We will pick up the threads from the visit of the president of Pakistan. We will increasingly endeavor to revise the vision of the relationship of peace, friendship and cooperation with Pakistan,

Vivian has been an outstanding leader of the Discovery Times Channel since its launch three years ago. We are enormously proud of the progress we have made with Discovery Times Channel and we wish Vivian the very best for her new endeavor at the Times.

We are very excited to be one of the beneficiaries of the inaugural endeavor of the Aloha Street Nature Project.

Even though Office 2007 is very innovative and a compelling solution, it is a big endeavor for enterprises to undertake, and many of them are going to sit on the sidelines in 2007 and wait and see and learn from others' experiences.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant recognizes our commitment, while at the same time it illustrates the commitment of the Kellogg Foundation, to challenging prejudice -- whether conscious or unconscious. Our goal at the Journalism School is to set a new, higher standard for education regarding the coverage of race and ethnicity. We endeavor to be leaders in the field.

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period of 24 years.

The size of this endeavor alone warrants this modest extension, ... When viewing these environmental issues, the impact on our infrastructure and community and, also significantly, the visual considerations along the majestic Hudson River, the time allowed thus far is clearly and grossly inadequate.

A double cast with a 60-person chorus is a big endeavor for so early in the year,

Strategically, this is the most important endeavor for us. This is our chance to spread our wings, have our own logo and brand.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

The moon's closeness is a huge advantage: To make it habitable, we would first have to bombard it with water-ice comets, a tricky endeavor best attempted with the many resources waiting on and near Earth.

Anything that comes up in the assembly that is likely to lead us closer to the Republic of Ireland -- we will block these, we will vote against them, and we will endeavor to stop them.

This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising healthcare costs by approving safe and effective generic alternatives as soon as the law permits.

They're working on it. We always endeavor to get our reports out on time. But the president's visit could influence the outcome of that report and therefore it may be a few days late.

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

This positive endeavor will benefit our children enrolled in the local schools and provide a safety enhancement for our citizens. We are very excited to be a part of this program and believe it will be a great asset to our community.

There were differences. It was ironic that the governor talked about foreign policy and basically supported every foreign policy endeavor of the Clinton-Gore administration ... it's pretty easy to know something about foreign policy when you agree with the other guy the whole time.

Absorb what is said as you read but endeavor not to hold on to it or think about it.

It is strategically the most important endeavor that we've embarked upon since I've been with the company. Here's an opportunity for us to spread our wings, have our own logo, our own brand and be able to control our own destiny.

It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

It's a pretty expensive endeavor for a company to pay for, ... A small company can't afford it. It's just more overhead.

It's not an easy endeavor by any means.

Talk to your child, ask them questions, pay attention to changes in their behavior or types of friends they run around with. This can be a really important endeavor in keeping our children safe.