Endeavor Quotes
What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins
The only way to save yourself is to endeavor to save others.
Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.133, Moody Publishers
What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them
Andrew Combe (1871). “The Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral: Intended Chiefly for the Use of Parents”, p.251
Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity”, p.158, Oneworld Publications
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.79, Penguin
As quoted in "Top 100 Power Verbs" by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, (p. 170), June 20, 2013.
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1809). “The Spectator”, p.44
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.17, Lulu.com
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
Spike Lee, Lisa Jones (1989). “Do the Right Thing: A Spike Lee Joint”, p.100, Simon and Schuster