Endeavour Quotes - Page 6

• How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Groups, Camps, Opposing

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 552, 1991.

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• I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Thinking, Giving, Political

  Letter to Herbert Bryan, May 19, 1916.

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• En la creencia islámica, el conocimiento tiene dos vertientes. Está el revelado a través del Santo Profeta (s.a.s.) y el que el hombre descubre en virtud de su propio intelecto. Estos dos no implican ninguna contradicción, siempre que el hombre recuerde que su propia mente es en sí misma la creación de Dios. Sin esta humildad, no hay equilibrio posible. Con ella, no hay barreras. De hecho, uno de los puntos fuertes del Islam ha sido siempre su creencia en que la creación no es estática, sino continua, que a través de la ciencia y otros esfuerzos, Dios ha abierto y sigue abriendo nuevas ventanas para que veamos las maravillas de Su creación.

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Humility, Men

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

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• Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Broken, Unity

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• Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

  Jane Fonda

  Writing, Scary, Up To You

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Men, Body

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

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• Los habitantes de las Malvinas, como los del Reino Unido, son una raza insular. Son pocos, pero tienen derecho a vivir en paz, a elegir su propio modo de vida y a determinar su lealtad. Su modo de vida es británico; su lealtad, a la Corona. El deseo del pueblo británico y el deber del Gobierno de Su Majestad es hacer todo lo posible para defender ese derecho. Esa será nuestra esperanza y nuestro esfuerzo y, creo, la determinación de todos los miembros de esta Cámara.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Islands, Race

  Speech in the House of Commons, www.margaretthatcher.org. April 3, 1982.

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• A menudo deseo el fin del miserable resto de mi vida; y ese deseo es racional; pero entonces el principio innato de autoconservación, sabiamente implantado en nuestras naturalezas, con propósitos obvios, se opone a ese deseo, y nos hace esforzarnos por hilar nuestro hilo tanto como podamos, por muy podrido y descompuesto que esté.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Death, Self, Long

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• And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, Poetry, Unattainable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

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• How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

  John Locke

  Games, Play, Toys

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.166

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• Me esforzaré por animar la moralidad con el ingenio, y templar el ingenio con la moralidad, para que mis lectores puedan, si es posible, encontrar su cuenta en la especulación del día.

  Joseph Addison

  May, Way, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.32

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• In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Pain, Fall

  Thomas Jefferson, Newsweek, inc. Book Division (1974). “Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
  Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
  Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
  And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.

  Rupert Brooke

  Guerra, Caída, Hombres

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

  Barbara Ward, Baronesa Jackson de Lodsworth

  Important, West, Done

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• I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots of takes, and everyone there is a talent machine. It is a taxing endeavour to say the least, but when you get into a groove, it doesn't matter if you're tired, it doesn't matter if you're sick. You can do it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Tired, Long, Sick

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• El conservadurismo defiende las medidas coercitivas que exige un salvajismo que aún no se ha extinguido. El radicalismo se esfuerza por realizar un estado más en armonía con el carácter del hombre ideal.

  Herbert Spencer

  Carácter, Hombres, Radicalismo

  Herbert Spencer (1851). "Social Statics: Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed", p.469

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• I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

  Stephanie Rice

  Mean, Swimming, Thinking

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• Nos esforzamos por emplear únicamente figuras simétricas, que no sólo ayuden a razonar a través del sentido de la vista, sino que también sean en cierta medida elegantes en sí mismas.

  John Venn

  Science, Sight, Use

  "Lógica Simbólica". Libro de John Venn, 1881.

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• Los que han pasado gran parte de su vida en esta gran ciudad, contemplan su opulencia y sus multitudes, su extensión y variedad, con fría indiferencia; pero un habitante de las partes más remotas del reino se distingue inmediatamente por una especie de curiosidad disipada, un afanoso esfuerzo por dividir su atención entre mil objetos, y una salvaje confusión de asombro y alarma.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

  Jeff Bezos

  Years, People, Vision

  "Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.

  Lewis Gordon

  Long, Gone, Done

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• In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

  Lowell Milken

  Differences, People, Profound

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• We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Optimistic, Optimism, Imperfection

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1595, Manonmani Publishers

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• The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

  William Ernest Henley

  Labyrinth, Retreat, Pseudonyms

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Expression, Games, Play

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.10

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