Endeavor Quotes - Page 12

• I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children's play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.

  Seth Roberts

  Sex, Children, Thinking

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• Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Happiness, Teacher, Laughter

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• Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved.

  Peter Senge

  Appreciation, Focus, Engagement

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• If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

  Amit Goswami

  War, Views, People

  Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.8, Penguin

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• If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Heart, Simplicity, Meditation

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• To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

  Gary Steiner

  World, Ethical, Natural

  Gary Steiner (2012). “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, p.122, Columbia University Press

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• Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Jewels, Names

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• The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

  John Gruber

  Design, Creative, Quality

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• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

  James Monroe

  Wise, Mean, Exercise

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.35, e-artnow sro

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• The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Selfish, Believe, Religion

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• My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join me in prayer:
  Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization. . .

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Prayer, Fall, Struggle

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Real, Men, Emotional

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• The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

  Chris Hedges

  Art, Branches, Realizing

  Chris Hedges (2008). “I Don't Believe in Atheists”

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• It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Sight, Dancing, Ballet

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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• If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

  Isaac Newton

  Revenge, Passion, Silence

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• In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

  Daniel Gilbert

  White, Perfection, Albums

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.65, Vintage

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• Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.

  L. Tom Perry

  Soul, Each Day, Height

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• We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

  Russell Kirk

  Reflection, Past, Theory

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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Return, God Love, Should

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

  Twyla Tharp

  Skills, Creative, Luck

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The last two - distractions and fears - are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible.

  Twyla Tharp

  Keys, Two, Creative

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Sex, Children, Hero

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• As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Rights, Political

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.338

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• In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to over come obstacles of the way, the soul trains itself to conquer difficulties; and the spectacle of the vast horizon, which from the highest crest offers itself on all sides to the eyes, raises his spirit to the Divine Author and Soverign of Nature.

  Pope Pius XI

  Eye, Air, Effort

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