Endeavor Quotes - Page 25

• If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

  Ariel Durant

  Character, Destiny, Personality

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• As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government… our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors – in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.

  D. James Kennedy

  School, Government, Media

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• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  Ed Royce

  Running, Cutting, United States

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• It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Sight, Dancing, Ballet

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• Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

  Propertius

  Men

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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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• 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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• Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

  Roman Coppola

  Opposites, Firsts, Film

  Source: collider.com

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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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• There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Government, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.

  S. Truett Cathy

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• He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Please

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• In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.

  John McCain

  Football, Country, Blessed

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• The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Ideas

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• Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta, buddha-consciousness: a mind which functions as a no-mind, a mind which dreams no more, thinks no more, a mind which is just awareness, pure awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Thinking, Effort

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• If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

  Akio Morita

  Effort, Peaceful, Succeed

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• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Understanding, Intuition

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Self Improvement, Wickedness, Ridiculous

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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