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

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

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.
Robyn Davidson