Endeavor Quotes - Page 27

• It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Long, People

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American notes”, p.164

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• I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Devil, Speak

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of “play,” number one, was “engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor,” and number two was “gambling.” And I realize I do both when I’m designing.

  Paula Scher

  Gambling, Play, Two

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• No serious courtship or engagement or marriage is worth the name if we do not fully invest all that we have in it and in so doing trust ourselves totally to the one we love. You cannot succeed in love if you keep one foot out on the bank for safety's sake. The very nature of the endeavor requires that you hold on to each other as tightly as you can and jump in the pool together.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Love You, Names, Feet

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• If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.

  Albert Claude

  Men, Cells, Practice

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• Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state is dying to oneself, - to one's own opinions, wishes and feelings or tastes, in order to live by Divine intellect, in conformity with the Divine will and in partaking of God. In the forefront of this endeavor is our Lord and Savior. He surrendered the whole of Himself to God the Father, and us in Himself, 'For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones' (Eph. 5:30). So let us hasten in His footsteps?

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Father, Sacrifice

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• Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Adversity, Heart

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• I believe that perseverance is vital to success in any endeavor, whether spiritual or temporal, large or small, public or personal. . . . All significant achievement results largely from perseverance.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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• Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Success, Essentials, Enthusiasm

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

  Sophocles

  Opportunity, Captains

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• If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Fighting, Men, Giving

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• We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Care, Reign

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work, their patience, and their prayers. This is why I beg you not to grow weary in yours. Although He may delay, He will reveal that it is pleasing to Him, if it is done, nevertheless, in a spirit of resignation regarding the outcome.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Prayer, Grace

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

  Robert Greene

  Creative, Uncertain

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2014

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• What is creativity? Having spent my life in one creative endeavor after another, I can tell you it's not something magical or mystical. It's something very simple. To me, it's just a moment - a moment where we look at the ordinary, but we see the extraordinary. It happens all the time in my photography.

  Dewitt Jones

  Photography, Creativity, Simple

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• Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

  Charles James

  Real, Heart, Men

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• I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (1963). “Thoreau: people, principles, and politics”

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• I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.

  Calvin Trillin

  Writing, Self Confidence, Thinking

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• Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sex, Practice, Needs

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• With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vanity, Toilets, Lost

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.368

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Vulgarity Is, Razors

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Assuming, Coarse, Hideous

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Because I was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg”, p.233, New Directions Publishing

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• Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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