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Endeavors Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
- 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…
- Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,…
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,…
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- I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked. — Wade Boggs
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- 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… — Aristotle
- Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the… — David Whyte
- History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting… — 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… — Rodrigue Tremblay
- Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a… — 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… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. — Samuel Johnson