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I do not hold fear about what is happening in the world.
I am responsible for how I conduct myself in the events of my days,
and endeavor to not dwell in fear about anything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion
to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All endeavor calls for the ability
to tramp the last mile,
shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
The fight to the finish spirit is the one...
characteristic we must posses
if we are to face the future as finishers.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams
and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined,
you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability
of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau

Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully
few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
- Paul Getty

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man
can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
- Ted Williams

If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
- George Carlin

One that desires to excel
should endeavor in those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
- Epictetus

When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor,
they stop enjoying it and move on to something else.
Not golfers.
Masochists, all of them.
- Jay Mohr

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate.
We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding
new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
- John L. Phillips

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything
afresh and create it anew.
- Gustav Mahler

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is.
It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the
best possible under any and all circumstances.
- Orison Swett Marden

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry,
easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot
be mended and patient when there be no redress.
- Elizabeth Montagu

So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out,
how well it will sell, etc.
But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
- Geddy Lee

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor
by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
- Florenz Ziegfeld

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do,
he drowns.
- Joseph Conrad

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war;
but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on,
we must defend ourselves.
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether
it was fired from within or without,
we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
- Baruch Spinoza

Virtues are acquired through endeavor,
Which rests wholly upon yourself.
So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
- Thomas Paine

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
- Napoleon Hill

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well,
they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
- Thomas Kempis

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as
hard as dealing with your regret later.
- Mike Hawkins

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of
the Anarchist and the Communist,
who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor,
but by brutal destruction.
- Henry Cabot Lodge

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into
any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
- John Frusciante

To endeavor to domineer over conscience,
is to invade the citadel of heaven.
- Charles V

You appear to have a good project...
we wish you well in this endeavor.
- David Packard

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them,
and my words seem very inept.
- Pierre Loti

I think that if politics is just about getting your
backside on important seats,
then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
- Chris Patten

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice:
the independent judiciary.
- Hans Frank

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our
endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller,
but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.
- Joyce Maynard

No power of government ought to be employed in the
endeavor to establish any system or article of belief
on the subject of religion.
- Jeremy Bentham

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again -
to fight another war,
because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
- Ashleigh Banfield

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other,
is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that
our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor
to develop the resources of our country.
- Olusegun Obasanjo

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention
to detail and total concentration.
- Willie Sutton

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
- John Huston

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's
constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.
- Walter Salles

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
- Paul Eldridge

One of the things in the back of my mind is that,
after my sports experience, I never want to be,
totally consumed by any one endeavor,
other than my family life.
- Julius Erving

Raising children is a creative endeavor,
an art rather than a science.
- Bruno Bettelheim

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

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which
it is an expression of your true self.
- Ralph Marston

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life,
you will make that more important.
- George Weinberg

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself
because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor,
makes it a more rewarding challenge.
- Richard King

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect;
if it is right,
it will be simple in retrospect.
- Edward Teller

I endeavor to make the most of everything.
- Victoria Woodhull

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction.
It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
- Marc Bloch

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend,
you should endeavor to understand him.
- George Santayana

Let us not seek to bring religion to others,
but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
- Paul Tournier

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal,
they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the
Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
- Sam Elliott

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us;
and endeavor to excel them,
by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
- Plutarch

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

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 Haggai

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists
themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,
exalted form of human endeavor.
- Steven Pinker

It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify
each individual who claims to have been a survivor
of victimization during this period of 24 years.
- Jose Ramos-Horta

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning -
an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring
the distance we have run,
but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on
the experiences of the past,
in the endeavor to discover improvements,
in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
- B. H. Liddell Hart

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society.
We must address and master the future together.
It can be done if we restore the belief that we share
a sense of national community,
that we share a common national endeavor.
It can be done.
- Barbara Jordan

But when women are moved and lend help,
when women, who are by nature calm and controlled,
give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and
knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love,
then it is invincible.
- Jose Marti

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that
we are behind them in the democratic process.
We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours;
but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
- Jack Kingston

It has always been a great wrong that these men and
their families should be held in bondage.
We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it,
lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution,
greater evils might ensue.
- Jay Alan Sekulow

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state!
It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord.
It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous
endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
- Saint Teresa of Avila

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting,
only for the best.
Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure,
failure in your endeavor to do your best.
- Maude Adams

I started this whole endeavor really.
And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy.
And that was pretty much among people that had held
previous experience in that particular satellite.
So, I was in that, in a good position then.
- Umberto Guidoni

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie