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

- J. Paul Getty

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

- Marc Bloch

I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers - I will be true to them and to my beliefs.

- Mitt Romney

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

- Mark Twain

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

- Kristi Yamaguchi

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

- John Huston

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

- John Dykstra

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

- Jay Mohr

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

- John Frusciante

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

- Jean-Paul Sartre

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

- Alexander Payne

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

- George Weinberg

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

- Gustav Mahler

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

- George Santayana

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

- Elie Wiesel

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

- Edward Teller

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

- Charles V

As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

- Cate Blanchett

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

- Baruch Spinoza

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

- Anna Deavere Smith