Endeavor Quotes - Page 14

• There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Past, Appreciate

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.17, Penguin

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• I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, People, Majority

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• As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors – in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.

  D. James Kennedy

  School, Government, Media

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• Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

  Propertius

  Men

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• The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.

  Jacque Fresco

  Loss, Opportunity, Design

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• The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

  Fouad Ajami

  Motivation, Iraq, Land

  "Iraq and the Arabs' Future" by Fouad Ajami, www.nytimes.com. December 18, 2002.

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• While creating a social brand is a necessary endeavor, building a social business is an investment...

  Brian Solis

  Creating, Investment, Building

  "The Path From A Social Brand To A Social Business" by Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com. May 2, 2012.

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• Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

  Joseph Pilates

  Successful, Persistence, Accomplishment

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

  Stanford Moore

  Benefits, Lifetime, Nobel

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• Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Leadership, Struggle, Achievement

  Laurence Gonzales (2009). “Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

  Christopher Bond

  Technology, Aerospace, India

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• An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.

  Mac Anderson

  Inspiration, Heart, Greatness

  Mac Anderson, Tom Feltenstein (2015). “Change Is Good...You Go First: 21 Ways to Inspire Change”, p.83, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say that the lost will never be saved if we don't go- He simply says, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations...."

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Keys, Missionary

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.594, Discovery House

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• My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Ambition, Mean

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• Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Angel, Saint

  "The Way of Perfection".

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• Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Self, Envy, Energy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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