Endeavor

Famous quotes containing the word endeavor:

“To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)