Endeavor Quotes
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Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
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There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win.
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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.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
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Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
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Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
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Practical atheism, seeing no guidance for human affairs but its own limited foresight, endeavors itself to play the god, and decide what will be good for mankind and what bad.
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Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.
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Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
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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.
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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
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Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
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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.
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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.
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The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.
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To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
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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.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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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.
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
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I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.
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Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff in Mother Jones, as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.
