Endeavor Quotes - Page 22

• Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Discipline, Desire

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

  George S. Patton

  War, Helping, God Help Me

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• Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Race, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.343, Collector's Library

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• Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Goal, Suffering, Facts

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). “Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957”, Full Court Pr

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• I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Loss, Outcomes, Awful

  Joseph O’Neill (2012). “Netherland”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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• The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Risk, Tests, Fields

  James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  Samuel Johnson

  Courage, Honesty, Work

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.82

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• People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

  Evander Holyfield

  Hard Work, Jealous, People

  "Evander Holyfield Q n A - Part I". Interview with Zhenyu Li, www.thesweetscience.com. April 20, 2010.

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• We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

  Tom T. Hall

  Ideas, Firsts, Artistic

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• True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Father, Participation, Invited

  Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.133, Moody Publishers

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• The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts.  Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

  Tony Dungy

  People, Giving, Effort

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• Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Morning, Destiny

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (18??). “The Works of J. W. Von Goethe”

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• 'We were created for eternal life by our Creator, we are called to it by the word of God, and we are renewed by holy Baptism. And Christ the Son of God came into the world for this, that He should call us and take us there, and He is the one thing needful. For this reason your very first endeavor and care should be to receive it. Without it everything is as nothing, though you have the whole world under you.'

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Love, Peace, Truth

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• You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

  Nathan Fillion

  Brother, People, Guy

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• Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Power, Numbers

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.43, Vintage

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• Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, Loneliness, Destiny

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• I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Impact, Law

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• Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

  Ralph Marston

  Life, Perfection, Desire

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Character, Math

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• The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.

  Thomas Vose Daily

  Mother, Prayer, Blessed

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• I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

  Ward Churchill

  Rights, Talking, Libertarian

  Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,

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• 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 others, and his idleness from himself.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Care, Poverty

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.205

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• The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

  Jaron Lanier

  Interesting, Imperfect, Advertising

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• The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Care, Narrative

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