Endeavor

Famous quotes containing the word endeavor:

    We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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.
    Teresa Of Avila, Saint (1515–1582)

    Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)