Endeavor Quotes - Page 18

• Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Dream, Inspiration, World

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.38, e-artnow

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• Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

  George Washington

  Lines, Mark, Duty

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.399

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• Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

  George Ade

  Lines

  George Ade (1914). “Ade's Fables”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

  Francois Fenelon

  Views, Glory, Distraction

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

  Joseph Addison

  Morality, Wit, Temper

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1809). “The Spectator”, p.44

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• I firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.

  Lyman Abbott

  Believe, Light, Appreciate

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Years, Play

  "Not My Job: Mindy Kaling Gets Quizzed On Do-It-Yourself Projects". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 20, 2015.

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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• While just looking, we are always hunting among objects, looking for what we desire or fear, endeavoring to recognize some pattern; on the other hand, objects themselves always "stare back," vie for our attention, throw at us their lures and endeavor to entrap us.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hunting, Hands, Desire

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Thomas Cooper

  Truth, Religion, Doctrine

  Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

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• He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.

  Chrysippus

  Running, Race, Benefits

  "De Officiis". Book by Cicero, iii. 10, 44 BC.

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• Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Thinking, Intellectual

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.198, Library of Alexandria

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• We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavour to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.

  Henri Barbusse

  Wisdom, Ideas, Humanity

  "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.

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• Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

  John Carroll

  Goal, Excellence, Acquisition

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.120, Taylor & Francis

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• The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.

  Max Horkheimer

  Order, Law, Names

  "Critical Theory: Selected Essays" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 150), 1982.

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• Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

  Livy

  Peace, War, Luck

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• No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavor. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start.

  Jack Ma

  Successful, Training, Resilience

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• The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Mean, Organization

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• 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, and to set free a suffering humanity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Struggle, Pride, Son

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

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• There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  May, Boundaries, Bad Life

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• Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

  John Calvin

  Law, Neighbor, Cruelty

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• Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mind, Walden Pond, Made

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.331, Penguin

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• Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Goes On, Want

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• I am extremely pleased and proud of the achievements of Round Table India. I truly believe in their cause of educating underprivileged children and giving them a new and assured future. I would like to reiterate my support to RTI in providing education to children and would like to support all their endeavors going forward. I will also try and involve my friends and family from the industry to help in this great cause wherever possible.

  Gauri Khan

  Children, Believe, Giving

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• You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Determination, Struggle, Hard Work

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.158, Penguin

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