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
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
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
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope 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
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
I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is… — Jennifer Granholm 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
He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country.… — James Lee Burke 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
Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward… — Max Planck 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
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
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
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
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
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
Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor. — Ryan Gosling 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
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
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
The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge. — John Gruber Copy Share Image
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
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
Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour. — Gichin Funakoshi 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
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
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
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
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