Endeavor Quotes - Page 30

• Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.

  Herbert Spencer

  Play, Atheism, Guidance

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.518

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• Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Atheism, Female

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• For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  Interview with Vendela Vida, www.believermag.com. September, 2013.

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• My great definition of success comes from Thoreau: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." That always has defined my road to what you call phenomenal success. I have advanced confidently in the direction of my dreams. I have lived the life I imagined, and I have had a ball doing it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Live Life, Balls

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, Role Models

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Scripture, Type

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.

  Angela Bassett

  Honesty, Ideas, Tables

  "Gerard Butler, Antoine Fuqua Interview: Olympus Has Fallen". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 15, 2017.

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• Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is a holy endeavor and the teaching of it to our people a very high calling.

  Alice Walker

  Yoga, Teaching, Mean

  Alice Walker (2007). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.240, The New Press

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• He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vanity, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wall, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Brain, Potatoes

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

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• Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
  Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
  When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
  Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
  That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Grace, Honor

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Reform, Should

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.49

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• A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Enemy, Firsts

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Desire, Merit, Praise

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• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

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• Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sex, Moving, Keys

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• To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

  Robert Dodsley

  Philosophy, Learning, Mind

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• When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Book, Ideas

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• the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Time, Years, Months

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• Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Oil, Gossip, Calumny

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• It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Mind, Details

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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