Endeavor Quotes - Page 21

• In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Promise, Politician, Shed

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing.

  Don DeLillo

  Trying, Hopeless, Imagine

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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• Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Science, Together

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor, inspire men with faith in themselves, dedicate them to high moral purpose, and give them the strength to live through their failures, and to face with high courage their supreme tragedies.

  Sterling M. McMurrin

  Men, Giving, Inspire

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• Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor.

  John Huston

  Left Hand, Crime, Form

  John Huston (1980). “An open book”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Profound, Crowds, Obscure

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• In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Law, Republic

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• The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Bourgeoisie, Workers, Nations

  "Capitalism and Workers’ Immigration". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 24, www.marxists.org. 1977.

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• Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.

  Yasuhiko Kimura

  Spiritual, Art, Passion

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• Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Hands, Ideas, Issues

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• Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Anarchy, Dawn

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.37, 谷月社

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• Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Truth, Hero, Expression

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• Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Christ, Conform

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1510, Moody Publishers

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• Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Skills, Tasks, Succeed

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• 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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• 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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• Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

  Thomas Malthus

  Agriculture, Corporations, Causes

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.33, University of Michigan Press

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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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• When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result may become; the character is upright, of course, but too coated over with the result of its own endeavor to be attractive.

  Jane Addams

  Integrity, Character, May

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.129, Youcanprint

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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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• 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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• 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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