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Quotes About Endeavour

On the one hand philosophy is like any other human endeavour, situated within and confined by the context of its day and yet on the other hand, it tries to wrestle with and expand the boundaries of current thought.
~ Philip Stokes
In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.
~ Michel Patini
O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. . . . Pass the bottle.
~ Joseph Conrad
A man and only a man can become a Buddha. Every man has within himself the potentiality of becoming a Buddha, if he so wills it and endeavours. [...] Man's position, according to Buddhism, is supreme. Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.
~ Walpola Rahula
Give me a moment. Sit down on that bloody rock for a minute, and let me try to explain. And listen to me as if I weren't related. Can you make some sort of frenetic endeavour, and pretend to do that? Because in the only sense that matters, Richard, it's true.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Something comes out of every voyage," said the other man sharply. "Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor;
~ Dorothy Dunnett
I'm just tickled pink that I'll be on Endeavour's last flight.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
~ Michelangelo
You can't win them all but you can try.
~ Babe Didrikson Zaharias
But at least I tried
~ Ken Kesey
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities
~ David Landes
We will continue to support our sportspersons and we endeavour to make India a sporting powerhouse.
~ Anurag Thakur
My first date was with Endeavour, and my last date is going to be with Endeavour, as far as space shuttles are concerned.
~ Gregory H. Johnson
I left the Labour Party because I consider it a racist endeavour. I could no longer, in good faith, knock on doors and say vote for me, and by extension get Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister.
~ Luciana Berger
Directing a film is a lot of physical work.
~ Sajid Nadiadwala
Hegel, that the intellectual life is ultimately a spiritual endeavour to synthesize art, music, religion, politics and philosophy
~ Roger Scruton
at any rate, there's no harm in trying.
~ Lewis Carroll
The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed.
~ Jill Lepore
Nowhere do the words "slave" or "slavery" appear in the final document. "What will be said of this new principle of founding a right to govern Freemen on a power derived from slaves," Pennsylvania's John Dickinson wondered—correctly, as it would turn out. He predicted: "The omitting the Word will be regarded as an Endeavour to conceal a principle of which we are ashamed."49
~ Jill Lepore
If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten.
~ Andrea Leadsom
Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Trying is the first step towards failure
~ Homer Simpson
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.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
Yes, but the surest means will be to endeavour to fortify him against temptation, not to remove it out of his way.
~ Anne Bronte