Endeavour Quotes - Page 8

• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

  Martin Amis

  Curves, Careers, Novelists

  Martin Amis (2001). “The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000”, Vintage

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• Todas las religiones enseñan que dos fuerzas opuestas actúan sobre nosotros y que el esfuerzo humano consiste en una serie de eternos rechazos y aceptaciones.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Acceptance, Opposites, Two

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.163, Tara Publishing

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• [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Doors, Dust

  Marjory Stephenson (1939). “Bacterial metabolism”

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• Para concluir, por lo tanto, que ningún hombre por un débil concepto de sobriedad, o una moderación mal aplicada, piense o sostenga, que un hombre puede buscar demasiado lejos o ser demasiado bien estudiado en el libro de la palabra de Dios, o en el libro de las obras de Dios; divinidad o filosofía; sino más bien que los hombres se esfuercen por un progreso sin fin o proficiency en ambos."-Bacon: "Avance del aprendizaje".

  Charles Darwin

  Filosofía, Libro, Ciencia

  Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). "El origen anotado: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species", p.2, Harvard University Press

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• Si todo va sobre ruedas desde el principio, no podremos convertirnos en personas de sustancia y carácter. Superando dolorosos contratiempos y obstáculos, podemos crear una brillante historia de triunfo que brillará para siempre. Eso es lo que hace que la vida sea tan emocionante y agradable. En cualquier campo de actividad, quienes superan las dificultades y crecen como seres humanos avanzan hacia el éxito y la victoria en la vida.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Inspirational, Character, Smooth Sailing

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• Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?

  David Nicholls

  Appreciation, Book, Thinking

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.102, Villard

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• If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

  Jane Austen

  Men, Doe, Ifs

  Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.14, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science in an education and just as important as any other endeavour in our lives.

  Ken Danby

  Art, Educational, Math

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• No es cierto, en efecto, que la prudencia más refinada encuentre el momento oportuno para hacer conocer a un hombre sus propias faltas, ni que la benevolencia más celosa le reconcilie con aquel juicio por el que son detectadas; pero el que sólo procura la felicidad de aquel a quien reprende tendrá siempre la satisfacción de obtener o de merecer la bondad; si tiene éxito, beneficia a su amigo; y si fracasa, tiene al menos la conciencia de que sufre sólo por hacer el bien.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Men, Advice

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.74

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• Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

  Jim Stynes

  Wisdom, Attitude, Believe

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• Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.

  Roddy Doyle

  Writing, School

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• Los gobiernos, como los relojes, dependen del movimiento que les dan los hombres, y como los gobiernos son hechos y movidos por los hombres, también por ellos se arruinan. Por eso los gobiernos dependen más bien de los hombres, que los hombres de los gobiernos. Si los hombres son buenos, el gobierno no puede ser malo; si está enfermo, ellos lo curarán. Pero si los hombres son malos, que el gobierno nunca sea tan bueno, se esforzarán por deformarlo y estropearlo a su antojo.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Voting

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.

  Franz Boas

  Character, Class, Race

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• ¿Se le ocurre algún problema, en cualquier ámbito del quehacer humano, a cualquier escala, desde la microscópica a la mundial, cuya solución a largo plazo se vea favorecida, asistida o impulsada de forma demostrable por un mayor aumento de la población, a escala local, nacional o mundial?

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Pensamiento, Problema de Población, Largo

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• Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

  Percy Dearmer

  Loyalty, Men, Patriotism

  Percy Dearmer (1915). “Patriotism”

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• But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Alden Nowlan, Walter Learning, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1976). “Frankenstein: the play”, Irwin Publishing

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• A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

  Michael Sandel

  Tools, Politics, Way

  Michael J. Sandel (2012). “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”, p.13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Mind, Lovers

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• [The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as often renewed the attempt, and at length succeeded to my utmost desire, at the expense of every shilling I had in the world.

  Samuel Crompton

  Science, Perfect, Desire

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• Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

  David Landes

  Heart, Economics, Possibility

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• Después de que nacieran mis hijos, empecé a incorporar mi fotografía a diferentes actividades artísticas y, a partir de ahí, todo floreció. Siempre he necesitado una salida para mi creatividad y cuando mi vida se centró más en criar a mi familia que en las luces brillantes del mundo del espectáculo, explorar mi arte fotográfico fue una gran salida para mí.

  Angela Cartwright

  Fotografía, Arte, Creatividad

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• Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Writing, Simple, Wish

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). "The King's English", Oxford University Press

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• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Please Me, Grace

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• I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Children, Growing Up, Should

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• That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our Air either consists of, or at least abounds with, parts of such a nature, that in case they be bent or compress'd by the weight of the incumbent part of the Atmosphere, or by any other Body, they do endeavour, as much as in them lies, to free themselves from that pressure, by bearing against the contiguous Bodies that keep them bent.

  Robert Boyle

  Lying, Spring, Mean

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