Endeavor Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time…

— Margaret Mead

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left…

— James Russell Lowell

By thinking too much about others,our lives can be wasted in vain.

— Anonymous

We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with…

— George F. Kennan

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or…

— Frank O'Hara

What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice…

— Cynthia Ozick

Unless what we do is useful, glory is vain

— Latin Proverb

“Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery…

— Andrew Bonar

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of…

— Anonymous

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“You need to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days,…

— Boris Pasternak