Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
Maude Adams

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
Pierre Loti

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Napoleon Hill

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy Bentham

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Saint Teresa of Avila

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
Julius Erving

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.
Richard Dooling

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
Geddy Lee

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
Ralph Marston

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
Willie Sutton

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Paul Getty

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.
Mike Hawkins

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza