Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
There is no hope without endeavor.
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
We have a strong and vital role to play in Iraq, and we certainly cannot leave a vacuum for the insurgents to take over. We are engaged in a conflict from which America cannot afford to cut and run. We must be steadfast in this endeavor, upon which depends not only our future but that of the entire modern world.
Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are. . . given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.
Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.
Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.