Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you… — Charles Baudouin Copy Share Image
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the… — Maude Adams Copy Share Image
Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live,… — Roberto Rossellini Copy Share Image
The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
We must remember our duty to Nature before it is too late. That duty is constant. It is never completed. It lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
My folks are hilarious extroverts and have always been very supportive of all my artistic endeavors. I'm really lucky to come from… — Kate Brown Copy Share Image
A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor. — Terry Orlick Copy Share Image
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers -… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end. — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
