Endeavoring Quotes

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. - Thomas Carlyle

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. - Thomas A Kempis

Let me say this anyway on the record: We do not and have not been targeting stock prices for the purposes of endeavoring to stabilize this economy... We react if and when stock market price changes impact on the economy. We respond to the economy. - Alan Greenspan

It's the first time we've ever done this, but we are endeavoring to provide more clear, comprehensive and instantaneous information for people who want to monitor the election returns. - Robert Parker

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more. - William F. Buckley Jr.

If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. - William Wilberforce

I believe that she would be a witness that would help (senators) determine the truth, and that's what we're all endeavoring to do during this process. - Asa Hutchinson

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. - Thomas Paine

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. - Allen Ginsberg

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. - George Orwell