Endeavor Quotes - Page 15

• The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Smart, Political

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• The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

  Kennedy

  Fire, Light, Vision

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• As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Practice, Goal

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• Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

  John Locke

  Freedom, War, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

  James Robertson

  Success, Ideas, Clarity

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• In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

  Akhenaton

  Succeed, Assurance, Undertakings

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• Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

  John Newton

  Jesus, Looks, Let Me

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.585

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• Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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• Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Needs, Division

  Speech to Boston World Affairs Council, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 1976.

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• Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Character, Perfection, Faithful

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• Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Clouds, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.125

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• No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

  Olive Schreiner

  Character, Men, Trying

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.95, A&C Black

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• Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

  John Tillotson

  Happiness, Pain, Men

  John Tillotson (1720). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions. Together with the Rule of Faith”, p.69

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• Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

  Samuel Adams

  Girl, Christian, Men

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1778-1802”

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• Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Names, Body

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Past, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.7, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.

  Samuel Gompers

  Foundation, Share, Show Me

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• Parents and children seldom act in concert:
  each child endeavors to appropriate
  the esteem or fondness of the parents,
  and the parents, with yet less temptation,
  betray each other to their children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Parent, Temptation

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Rasselas: A Tale”, p.78

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• Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

  Robert Silverberg

  Past, Enough, Lost

  Robert Silverberg (2011). “Nightwings”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored - indeed, I have struggled - along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Years, Majority, Needs

  "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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• Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

  Ernest Holmes

  Essence, Imagination, Creative

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Art of Life”, p.9, Penguin

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• I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Race, Employment, Making Money

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• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Courage, Grace, May

  "Freedom from Fear". Aung San Suu Kyi's Acceptance Speech for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 1, 1990.

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• No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Humanity, Important

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