Endeavour Quotes - Page 5

• I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Reality, Years, Deities

  "Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, Volume 3". Book by N. Kasthuri, October 21, 2014.

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• In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.

  George Santayana

  Justice, Heaven, World

  "Interpretations of Poetry and Religion" by George Santayana, (p. 54), 1900.

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• Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Truth, Helping Others, Men

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

  Justus von Liebig

  Animal, Vegetables, Mysterious

  Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.10

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• Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Effort, Chess, Results

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 337, 1960.

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• Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

  Ivan Klíma

  Death, Vanity, Graveyard

  Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press

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• William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

  Alain de Botton

  Pride, Expectations, Achievement

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• Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

  Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham

  People, Watches, Television

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• All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Toil, Shapes, Lasts

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• You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

  Wole Soyinka

  Creative, Natural, Source

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh the first story. Gnomon is such an interesting word. So many different uses for a word nooone has heard of, or uses these days. I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Couple, Thinking, Years

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• All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Prayer, Real, Done

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.63

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

  Horace

  Circumstances

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• If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.

  John Kinsella

  Moving, People, Looks

  Source: www.cmc.ie

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• Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

  Franz Bardon

  Hands, Two, Magic

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• All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.

  Narendra Modi

  Buddhism, Empowerment, India

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• Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Memories, Children

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• I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future if we wanted at all to keep our flag flying; for I was sure as of my own existence that if another decade was allowed to pass without an endeavour of some kind or another to shake off an unjust yoke, the Irish people would sink into lethargy from which it would be impossible for any patriot . . . to arouse them . . .

  James Stephens

  People, Flying, Trying

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• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, Views

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Translations of the philosophical works”, p.68

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• Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

  Richard Steele

  Health, Self, Support

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.186

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• He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

  John Locke

  Country, Men, Past

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.537

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• Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.

  John Locke

  Ambition, Hands, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Order

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• To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Evil, Rejoice

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• When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Action, Painting, Poet

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