Quotes About Endeavor

#1. To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

Ayya Khema

#2. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.

Ted Chiang

#3. 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.

Albert Einstein

#4. 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

#5. The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.

Donald A. Norman

#6. The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

Chris Hedges

#7. The best way to proceed with a shared endeavor is to think of yourself as your only competition

Anamika Mishra

#8. If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#10. The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Baruch Spinoza

#11. The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said; for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved. When

Frederick Douglass

#12. 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

#13. Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what?

Sam Wellman

#14. But it doesn't begin to convey how stressful and time-consuming an endeavor it is to make egg rolls, nor does it begin to suggest how much tension a person can create in a household by serving egg rolls that take hours to make and are not nearly as good as Chinese takeout.

Nora Ephron

#15. Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Max Beerbohm

#16. Certainly I've never tried to imagine what the future will hold. It's a hopeless endeavor to try to do such a thing ...

Don DeLillo

#17. 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

#18. That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

Jostein Gaarder

#19. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

William S. Burroughs

#20. Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

Bruno Bettelheim

#21. Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

Neale Donald Walsch

#22. Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. Happiness should never be an option. it should always be the product of every endeavor, achieved or otherwise.

Jawe Querimit

#24. Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

John Hagee

#25. Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.

Larry Atchley Jr.

#26. While other creeds endeavor to get us out of the world and into heaven, in Christianity, heaven comes down and Christ comes into this world to get us. To suffer with us. We find favor - only because Christ feels pain.

Ann Voskamp

#27. Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

John Dykstra

#28. One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.

Anonymous

#29. 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

#30. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

Oliver Goldsmith

#31. Viewing teaching as a moral endeavor filled with uncertain and inevitable dilemmas positions the teacher always as an inquirer.

Celia Oyler

#32. If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it

Ralph Marston

#33. The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

Mike Svob

#34. True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

Priscilla Shirer

#35. Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Ralph Marston

#36. Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...

Andrew Lo

#37. Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals.

Audre Lorde

#38. However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

H. David Burton

#39. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Albert Camus

#40. If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards being like Him in all things in order to reveal Him to the world.

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,

Patrick Lencioni

#42. Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Willie Sutton

#43. When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense? The

Mark Kurlansky

#44. Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

Aliko Dangote

#45. [E]ducation is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world
all before we ever start thinking about it.

James K.A. Smith

#46. He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

Baruch Spinoza

#47. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Hannah More

#48. All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

Jane Smiley

#49. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.

Marianne Williamson

#50. By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science....

Orson Scott Card

#51. Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?

Henry David Thoreau

#52. It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

Peter David

#53. Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Stephen Colbert

#54. Authentic Christian spirituality is a team sport, not an individual endeavor.

Derek Olsen

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

Lynda Obst

#56. He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away.

Jane Austen

#57. Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.

Sophocles

#58. Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

Fang Chen

#59. For you, my love, I would endeavor to pluck the stars from the sky, only to shower them at your feet."
"How do you do that?'
"Do what?"
"Say things like that. That's beautiful."
"I've spent years studying poetry, Mrs. Emerson. It's in my DNA.

Sylvain Reynard

#60. In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

Wendy Kopp

#61. Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and triumphant endeavor." Theodore Roosevelt

Ryan Stallings

#62. I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

Joseph Addison

#63. The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

#64. The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Victor LaValle

#65. At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

Paul Johnson

#66. I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Otto Von Bismarck

#67. Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

Bob Cousy

#68. The least glimmering or shade of acting, in man or woman, is a sure motive of envy in the rest; and, if their malice can't persuade the town's-people into a dislike of their performance, they'll cruelly endeavor to taint their characters ...

Charlotte Charke

#69. Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#70. Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#71. Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor ... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

Emma Goldman

#72. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

#73. Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

Blaise Pascal

#74. Let us strive for personal, practical integrity in every endeavor, regardless of how mundane or inconsequential it may seem.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#75. If you please, Admiral, don't be a cock. I'll know it when I see it, and if, for some reason, I don't, you tell me, alright? Admiral Lacker inclined his head almost imperceptibly to indicate that they had a deal. He would endeavor to be as little of a cock as possible.

Lev Grossman

#76. We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

Vincent De Paul

#77. It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#78. Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Frantz Fanon

#79. Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it
that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Eric Gill

#80. One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.

Esther Hicks

#81. Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.

Anousheh Ansari

#82. Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#83. 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

#84. Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.

Aunguttara Nikaya

#85. The individual and social instincts, - the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

Emma Goldman

#86. I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

Tom Ford

#87. The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

Marianne Williamson

#88. A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carol Mann

#89. The mere act of dreaming is a vitalizing, life-affirming endeavor. As it turns out, using your imagination is very, very good for your wellbeing. Einstein believed that imagination was even more important than knowledge itself.

Danielle LaPorte

#90. You learn more about yourself in intimate relationships than any other endeavor. I can go do 'King and I' and sing out in front of 1,000-plus people, but trying to open up about something that's bothering me with somebody that I'm in a relationship with? That's the scariest thing.

Conrad Ricamora

#91. All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Aristotle.

#92. If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

Norm MacDonald

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

Propertius

#94. But it was there, and studies now show that working-class boys like me do much worse in school because they view schoolwork as a feminine endeavor.

J.D. Vance

#95. when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.

Brian Jay Jones

#96. It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Joseph P. Bradley

#97. Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#98. Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Kinky Friedman

#99. I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

Douglas MacArthur

#100. But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

Orson Scott Card