Endeavor Quotes

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

  Sidney Lanier

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

  Gary Ryan

  Persistence, Goal, Effort

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

  Robert Browning

  Gymnastics, Break, Be Good

  Robert Browning (1909). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Red cotton night-cap country. Aristophanes' apology, etc”

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• Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• I endeavor to make the most of everything.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Women, History

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• Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Being Alone, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.329, Princeton University Press

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• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

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• In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Shining, Effort

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• Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

  Colin Powell

  People, Succeed, Failing

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

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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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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Self Esteem, Giving

  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 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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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  Epictetus

  Sports, Philosophical, Perfection

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Inspirational, Humor, Government

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• Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Goal, Advertising

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• I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Serious, Mysticism

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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  Alan Greenspan

  Happiness, Careers, Leaving

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.

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