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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish… — Henry David Thoreau
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. — Wes Fesler
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. — John Keats
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in… — Albert Einstein
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. — Moliere
Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. — Ambrose Bierce
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined… — Orison Swett Marden
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not. — Marcus Aurelius
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. — Baruch Spinoza
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta,… — Rajneesh
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. — Samuel Johnson
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our… — Samuel Johnson
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose,… — B. C. Forbes
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory… — Ferdinand Magellan
I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in. — John Frusciante
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which… — Albert Einstein
The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this… — George Polya
Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the… — Thomas Jefferson
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor? — Henry David Thoreau

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