Best Endeavor Lines
672 Endeavor quotes by 503 unique authors
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The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put…
— Mario Pei
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Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed…
— Albert Pike
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I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more…
— Seth Roberts
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Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
— Kenny Ausubel
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Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get…
— Peter Senge
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If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views…
— Amit Goswami
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If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart,…
— Gautama Buddha
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When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.
— Jay Mohr
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To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority…
— Gary Steiner
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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled…
— Socrates
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The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
— John Gruber
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation…
— James Monroe
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The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers…
— James Harvey Robinson
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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
— Chris Hedges
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of…
— Heinrich Heine
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If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge.…
— Isaac Newton
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In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
— Daniel Gilbert
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Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the…
— L. Tom Perry
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We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory…
— Russell Kirk
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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
— Baruch Spinoza
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In creative endeavors luck is a skill.
— Twyla Tharp
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