Endeavor Quotes - Page 4

• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

  Thomas Paine

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Motivation

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• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "The Works of George Santayana".

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• A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

  John L. Phillips

  Expression, Civilization, Inward

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  John Haggai

  Confidence, Focus, Energy

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Tragedy

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• I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

  Chris Patten

  Thinking, Important, Backsides

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• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Truth, Struggle, Games

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Effort, Trying

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Kings, Pennsylvania, Agents

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• I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Grateful, Past, Cnn

  "Christiane Amanpour quits CNN" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

  Ernestine Rose

  Reality, Romance, Stubborn

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors.

  Irving Langmuir

  Winning, Benefits, Recognition

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• To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Literature, Common, Uncommon

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.189, Applewood Books

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• The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.

  Alexander Hamilton

  America, Citizens, Benefits

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.37, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a #‎ refiner 's #‎ fire , and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our #‎ faith #‎ bright , #‎ intact , and #‎ strong .

  James E. Faust

  Strong, Pain, Adversity

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• To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassin g. It is no lukewarm endeavor. It is total commitment of our very being-physicall y, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually-to a love of the Lord.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Commitment, Soul

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• A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

  Hannah More

  Inspirational, Defeat, Ends

  Hannah More (1836). “The Words of Hannah More ...”, p.181

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• There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

  Jaime Lerner

  Dream, Climate, Noble

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• Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Live Life

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• Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Light, Desire

  Maria Montessori (2014). “Spontaneous Activity in Education”, p.108, Montessori Helper

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• If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

  E. O. Wilson

  Failure, Memorable, Successful

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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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

  Kids, Messages, Obstacles

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• We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context-in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Teaching, Science, History

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• The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Secret, Concentration, Humans

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