Endeavor Quotes - Page 33

• Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

  Hannah Arendt

  Animal, Men, Astrology

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged.

  Henry Giroux

  Cheating, Learning, School

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• Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Oracles, Said

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• (there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Mean, Escaping, Looks

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• Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.

  Cyra McFadden

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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• One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

  Jeff Cooper

  Heart, Gun, Men

  "Cooper Vs. Terrorism" by Jeff Cooper, www.sightm1911.com.

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• Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Real, Power, Men

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• As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Cutting, Winning

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• Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!

  Greg Plitt

  Past, Opportunity, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from May 10, 2012

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• In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Work, Way

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• A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Loss, Excellence

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• All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Perfection, Flying

  William Butler Yeats (1957). “The variorum edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats”

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• My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Dad, Supportive, My Dad

  "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

  Alan Paton

  Taught, Expect Nothing, Results

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• Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Needs, Wake Up

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.19, Anchor

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• I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Perfect

  "Who's responsible for the fall of Ramadi: Iraq or the US?". "The Five" with Dana Perino, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

  Laini Taylor

  Long, Creative, Matter

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Success is... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

  William Gurnall

  Sweet, Yield, Trying

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.240, Moody Publishers

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• I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

  Ted Cruz

  Issues, Decision, Speak

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Passion

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• Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

  Leigh Hunt

  Helping Others, Sorrow, Bears

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Mean, Evil

  Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder

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• It is a libel to suggest that children need rewards for attending to tasks, apart from intrinsic interest and satisfaction. Children work very hard in their purposeful endeavors in the world, when they have ends they want to accomplish themselves. It is meaningless teaching, not learning, that demands irrelevant incentives.

  Frank Smith

  Children, Teaching, Tasks

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• Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Attitude, Copies, Falsehood

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