With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal 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
He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but… — Chrysippus Copy Share Image
It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to… — Ludwig von Mises 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
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
We were 15 minutes into it and nothing was happening; I thought, well, that's not going to work. Then all of a… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor. — Joseph Pilates 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
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
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