Famous quotes containing the word endeavor:
“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)
“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)
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)