Endeavor Quotes - Page 9

• Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Karma, Men, Trying

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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• The four pillars of wisdom that support journalistic endeavors are: lies, stupidity, money-grubbing, and ethical irresponsibility.

  Marlon Brando

  Lying, Support, Stupidity

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• When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

  Confucius

  Self, Worthy, Persons

  As quoted in "Top 100 Power Verbs" by Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, (p. 170), June 20, 2013.

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• It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Doors, Giving, Perfect

  Thomas Jefferson (1801). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.257

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• It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Religious, Rights, Government

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• O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Agents, World

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 10, l. [36]

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• Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Needs, Division

  Speech to Boston World Affairs Council, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 1976.

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• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

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• More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Thinking, Needs

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• It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

  Nick Cave

  Mother, Song, Children

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• However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.

  John of the Cross

  Perfection, Steps, Forget You

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Art, Museums, People

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• I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.

  Max Bill

  Art, Ideas, Influence

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• From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand . . . I am more than ever certain that a great place belongs to him in Israel's history of faith and that this place cannot be described by any of the usual categories.

  Martin Buber

  Jesus, Brother, Israel

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• Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

  Howard Cosell

  Sports, Simple, Men

  Howard Cosell, Peter Bonventre (1986). “I Never Played the Game”, Avon Books

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• Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason boys - to woo women - and in that endeavor, laziness will not do.

  Robin Williams

  Sad, Tired, Boys

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• A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

  Jane Leeves

  Husband, Team, Support

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• A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

  George Schaller

  Death, Long Ago, Ideas

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• Best of luck in your future endeavors!

  CM Punk

  Luck, Your Future, Best Of Luck

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• All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

  Dax Shepard

  Sports, Love Is, Track

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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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• Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Names, Body

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavour in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts.

  Lawren Harris

  Country, Art, Real

  "The best of the Group of Seven".

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• Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Be Patient, Failing, Infirmity

  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.1542, Moody Publishers

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