If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives. — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary. — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if… — Charlotte Charke Copy Share Image
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It required unusual inquisitiveness to pursue the development of scientific curiosities such as charged pith balls, the voltaic cell, and the electrostatic… — Frederick Seitz Copy Share Image
The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively;… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with… — John C. Norcross Copy Share Image
The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds ... it will eat away our spirit and block the… — James F. Bell, III Copy Share Image
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations — Otto Von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals. — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important. — George Weinberg Copy Share Image
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that… — Jason Ritter Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
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