Endeavor Quotes - Page 2

• Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

  Willie Sutton

  Success, Focus And Concentration, Details

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• No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

  David Hume

  Religious, Reality, Miracle

  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding "Of Miracles" (1748)

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• In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

  Aristotle

  Matter, Steps, Use

  Aristotle (1885). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Encouragement, Helping Others, Effort

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• So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

  Geddy Lee

  Views, Cds, Etc

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• When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

  Jay Mohr

  Moving, Progress, Golfers

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• It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

  Gustav Mahler

  Should, Sole

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• We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Together, Done

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  W. Clement Stone

  Success, Lying, Adversity

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• The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Different, Tongue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126

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• But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

  Marc Bloch

  History, Understanding, Cabinets

  Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.10, Manchester University Press

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• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Distance, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need

  Jennifer Granholm

  Kindness, Compassion, Generosity

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Winning, Self

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• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Laughter, Unique

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.25, Indiana University Press

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Creativity

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Important, Our Actions

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Heaven, Roman Emperor, Citadels

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• The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Men, Clothes

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.13, Kregel Publications

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• Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Mercenary

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• To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

  Joyce Maynard

  Stories, Share, Worthwhile

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• My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

  Pierre Loti

  Emotion, Force, Seems

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• True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

  William Penn

  Men, Doe, World

  William Penn (2001). “No Cross, No Crown”, p.42, Destiny Image Publishers

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