To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark… — Kenny Ausubel Copy Share Image
Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George Copy Share Image
This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Happiness should never be an option. it should always be the product of every endeavor, achieved or otherwise.” — Jawe Querimit Copy Share Image
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge. — John Gruber Copy Share Image