Best Endeavor Quotes
672 Endeavor quotes by 503 unique authors
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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
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To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.
— Wes Fesler
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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
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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
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Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
— John Keats
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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
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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
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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
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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
— Sidney Lanier
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
— Baruch Spinoza
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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
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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
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He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
— John Frusciante
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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