Endeavor Quotes - Page 3

• No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Perspective, Retrospect

  Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

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• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Peace, Attitude, Passion

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

  George Weinberg

  Aquariums, Ideas, Giving

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• No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Powerful

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.109, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Patriotic, Fire

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.140, Algora Publishing

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• Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Art, Children, Creative

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• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Atheism, Belief

  Jeremy Bentham (1843). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham”, p.92

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• But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

  Jose Marti

  Love, Sweet, Encouragement

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Soul, Tongue

  Teresa of Avila (2004). “The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• One difference between those who make it and those who don't--regardless of their field of endeavor--is not the "talent" difference. Those who go over the top have a dream and the dream has them. They make the commitment and pursue that dream with dogged patience and persistence. Commitment produces consistent, enthusiastic effort that inevitably produces greater and greater rewards.

  Zig Ziglar

  Dream, Commitment, Persistence

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Responsibility

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist”

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• Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Our Actions, Ethics And Morals

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

  Monty Oum

  Dream, Effort, May

  "Monty Oum: A Life Remembered" by Mateo Hurtado Statz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

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• A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Government, Roots

  "The Mind of Napoleon". Book by J. Christopher Herold, 1955.

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• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

  John Frusciante

  Music, Trying, Spirit

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• Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Quality, Excellent

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Dream, Fall

  Lord Jim ch. 20 (1900)

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• After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

  Louis Calhern

  Left Hand, Crime, Form

  "Fictional character: Alonzo Emmerich". "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950.

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• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  Sam Elliott

  Hollywood, Vets, Vietnam

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• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

  Hans Frank

  Independent, Justice, Firsts

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• I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

  Ashleigh Banfield

  War, Fighting, Courageous

  "Even Paranoids Have Enemies" by Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2007.

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• If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.

  George Carlin

  Stupid, People, Uniforms

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sex, Character, Humans

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Mind

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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