It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.” — Fang Chen Copy Share Image
I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas… — William Watson Purkey Copy Share Image
Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My colleagues from the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education are working on participatory public health initiatives in Michigan, and there… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more… — Stanford Moore Copy Share Image
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings,… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden Copy Share Image
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image