highest endeavor
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Know your object, that it is worthy the highest endeavor of a human being, and then pursue it with a divine enthusiasm that no obstacle can daunt, an ardor that no weariness can quench.
From Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James
He is now sixty, the owner of the finest library in his city, with the reputation of being its best-read man, and one whose highest endeavor is to help his fellow man.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
A new life had begun—a life devoted to the highest endeavor.
From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Let this then be our labor, this our highest endeavor, to be really what we have been from the beginning of the world.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
