Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it.… — Aristotle 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
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it… — Laurence Gonzales Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I have no ear for music. When I attend a concert, I endeavor gamely to follow the sequence and relationship of sounds… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think our science is a marvelous tool. Of course it has its politics, its failings, its mistakes, like all other human… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
