Endeavor Quotes - Page 35

• Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

  J. I. Packer

  Taught, Response

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Our Actions, Guidance, Reason

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• School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Spring, School

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• Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they we're homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

  William Penn

  Children, Sweet Love, Sobriety

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• There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. The poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet.

  Joseph Addison

  Ambition, Men, Circles

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1819). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

  James Russell Lowell

  Broken, Purpose, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1503, Delphi Classics

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• The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Poet, Prose

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.300

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• When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, endeavor to rouse your faculties, and act up to your kind, and consider that you have to do the business of a man; and that action is both beneficial and the end of your being.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Morning, Men, Action

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• In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

  Joan Rivers

  Perseverance, Persistence, Humans

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.

  Isaac Barrow

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Order, Goal, Needs

  FaceBook post by Quentin L Cook from Nov 17, 2014

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• In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, Excess, Characteristics

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.

  Paul Oakenfold

  Wish, All The Best, My Friends

  "Paul Oakenfold Leaves WME for APA (Exclusive)" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  Tea Obreht

  Encouragement, Taken, Thinking

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• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

  Douglas Preston

  War, Book, Desire

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• I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

  William A. Dembski

  Discipline

  William A. Dembski (1999). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, Intervarsity Press

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• On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

  Martin Seligman

  Future, Hands, Causes

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.89, Vintage

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• I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Contemplation, I Can

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1860). “The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy”, p.107

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• Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Mistake, Weapons, Nuclear

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• We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Ethics, Virtue

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• To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.

  James Gibbons

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

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• Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Despair, Overcoming, May

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.133

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Dream, Fall

  Lord Jim ch. 20 (1900)

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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