Endeavors Quotes

178 quotes by 153 authors

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked. — Wade Boggs
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the… — Albert Einstein
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects… — David Whyte
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be… — Ludwig von Mises
Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. — Rodrigue Tremblay
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The… — Epictetus
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. — Wes Fesler
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
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
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
No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you… — Karch Kiraly
In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me… — John Templeton
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We… — William Penn
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of… — George Schaller

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