Endeavor Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• 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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• being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Strong, Giving, Parent

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• 1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Book, Light

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• To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Failing, Distress

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• If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

  Francis Quarles

  Names, Oil, Lamps

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• Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

  John Owen

  Failure, Giving, Ruins

  John Owen (1839). “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: To which are Subjoined, Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, p.567

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• The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Self, Trying

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• Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

  Isaac Barrow

  Heart, Mind, Lame

  Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.280

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• In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

  Howard Schultz

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• In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

  Bill Gates

  Teaching, Practice, Cases

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• It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

  William Carey

  Duty, Nations, Known

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• Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

  St. Jerome

  Book, Hands, May

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• 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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• Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

  John C. Norcross

  Meaningful, Journey, Goal

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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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• Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

  Jamie Dimon

  Years, Together, Unraveling

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• All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.

  Harry S. Truman

  Order, Fields, Neighbor

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Rights, House

  Remark at a National Woman's Rights Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855. "Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings" by Miriam Schnier,, 1972.

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• Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm -- cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, Horse, Writing

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• The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Levels, Sanity

  "Dianetics 55!". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1954.

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• We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Jesus, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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