Endeavor Quotes - Page 20

• How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

  Alec Baldwin

  Children, Carpe Diem, Humanity

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• Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

  Hugh Black

  Spiritual, Real, Community

  Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.29, Sophia Institute Press

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• The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Culture, Rich

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Silence, Political, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Men, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1882, Delphi Classics

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• He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Hands

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Return, Should

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.232, Algora Publishing

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• From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Pain, Hate

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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• I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out even with the most truculent dictator.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Hope, Country, Work

  "Aung San Suu Kyi: This Government Is Not Capable of Running the Economy". content.time.com. November 15, 1999.

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• WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

  Dave Eggers

  Military, Teaching, Soldier

  "The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries" by Dave Eggers Ninive Clements Calegari, www.nytimes.com. April 30, 2011.

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• When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, No Hope

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 375-78, The Rambler No. 110, 1922.

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• Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. 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

  Real, Self, Order

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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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• When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Errors, Silence

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• To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

  Irving Stone

  Trying, Depth, Dangerous

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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• This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Father, Taken

  "This Is the Work of the Master". Ensign magazine, p. 71, May 1995.

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• All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

  Aristotle

  Persons, Ought

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• This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.

  George Saunders

  Country, Issues, Borders

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• We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Earthquakes, Sun, Wonder

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• Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Writing, Artist

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.98, New Directions Publishing

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