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“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.”

Giving Enough Strong Parent Pay Ultimate Endeavor Strong Enough Transactions Being A Parent Good Parent Pay It Forward

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.”

Men Evil Laughing Constant Add Ill Endeavor Fence Fragments Cheerfulness Mirth Infirmity Ill Health

Author:Laurence Sterne

“It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.”

Easy Christ Virtue Our Lives Abstract Endeavor Concrete Translations Unbelievers

Book:Three Essays on Religion

Source: Three Essays on Religion

“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.”

Way Mind Real Choices Journey Pursuit Tales Wander Boredom Paradox Destination Willingness Endeavor Casual Pilgrimage

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.”

Children Would Be Music Musician Endeavor

Author:Horace Walpole

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.”

Want Mind Ends Play Dark Female Blind Slave Former Obedience Latter Endeavor Tyrants Vindication Blind Obedience Female Mind

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.”

Self Moments Interest Products Highest Ideals Universal Objectives Inevitable Hypocrisy Enterprise Endeavor Virtuous Rationality

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“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.”

Two Universe Energy Powerful Millions Creative Connected Focused Manifestation Streams Endeavor Matched

Author:Esther Hicks

“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.”

Knows Trying Done Enough Stuff Hours Sleep Simple Havens Genius Get Better Endeavor Simple Things Brainless

Author:Randy Newman

“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Knows Trying I Can Moments Body America Lying Force Nations Challenges Effort Careers Greatness Promise Harder Starting Privilege Deeper Your Body Shy Endeavor Dig Deep Troubled Times

Author:Barack Obama

“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

“It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.”

Men Communicate Endeavor

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.”

Humans Dream Wish Endeavor

Book:Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

Source: Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want

“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.”

“The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.”

Able Happiness Careers Proud Self Improvement Leaving Endeavor Business Success Trails Dishonesty Casualties

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.”

Proof Repentance Strongest Endeavor

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.”

Humans Justice Highest Endeavor Attainment

Book:To Do Justly

Source: To Do Justly

“All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them”

Sensitive Endeavor Good Writers

Author:Ben Yagoda

“There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.”

Two Creative Endeavor

Author:Jane Alexander

“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.”

Ifs Men Heart Doe Whole Enjoy Cases Violence Type Return Citizens Offers Gun Agree Fellows Interviews Endeavor Earnest Bleeding Begets Bleeding Heart

Author:Jeff Cooper

“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.”

Men Real Light Might Lines Power He Man Circumstances Variety Broads Endeavor Lightning Wholeness Fullness One Line Real Power Solidity

Author:Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

“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.”

Looks Self Moments Desire Found Oneself Satisfaction Available Unhappy Endeavor Things Change

Author:Ayya Khema

“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.”

Seems Horse Endeavor Peculiar Scholar Stamina Tact Biographers Thoroughness

Book:Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Way Jobs Easy Difficult Work Fields Performing Endeavor

Author:Lynda Obst

“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.”

Ifs Writing Heart Ideas Winning Voice Harder Originals Slave Sentences Fake Charm Endeavor Can Not Few Words Essayists Unforgettable Original Ideas

Author:Cyra McFadden

“(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")”

Looks Mean Action Sides Consciousness Disease Madness Appearance Deny Violent Cures Immortality Look Up Endeavor Escaping

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!”

Want Believe Moments I Believe Keys Majors Folks Persistence Endeavor Persist Key To Success Tackling

Author:Andy Andrews

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

Beautiful Jokes Comedian Endeavor Athletic

Author:Stephen Colbert

“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.”

Way Art Important Reality Creative Virtue Capable Determined Wide Hardest Artistic Endeavor Earning Creative Art Good Living

Author:Mike Svob

“May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.”

People Way May Light Eye Values Culture Dark Common Fire Honor Ordinary Sight Heal Endeavor Makers Ritual Weary Chill

Book:A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Source: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

Ends Culture Growth Development Intellectual Function Endeavor Decay Barbarism Emergence Stagnation

Author:Paul A. Baran

“A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none of us endeavor to be happy, Sir, but merely to be thought so; and for my part, I had rather be in a state of misery, and envied for my supposed happiness, than in a state of happiness, and pitied for my supposed misery.”

Men Doe States Poor Fashion Misery Likes Unhappy Endeavor Envied

Author:Elizabeth Inchbald

“Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.”

Passion Sorrow Unions Combination Endeavor Resentment Detest Concur

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.”

People Thinking Kind Hard Creative Endeavor Surround Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Oscar Isaac

“Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.”

Years Training Endeavor Olympics Lifelong Training For The Olympics

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”

“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.”

People Ifs Men Character Actors Acting Performances Towns Envy Motive Endeavor Shade Dislike Malice

Author:Charlotte Charke

“Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.”

Book Literature Products Endeavor

Book:Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Source: Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

“To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.”

Knows Enough Practice Virtue Endeavor

Author:Aristotle

“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.”

“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.”

School Education Students Spring Flow India Harmony Pursuit Temples Endeavor Thirst Guardian Sanctity Punctuality Thirst For Knowledge

Author:Narendra Modi

“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.”

Reason Action Depends Direct Fortune Strive Guidance Proportion Endeavor Our Actions

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.”

Taught Response Endeavor

Book:In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

Source: In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

“For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.”

Feels I Can Moments Challenges Chance Break Records Type Goes On Endeavor Trails Challenging Myself

Author:Scott Jurek

“I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off”

Want Laughing Endeavor Athletic

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.”

Should Mother Artist Endeavor True Artists

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Thinking Humans Heart Interest Human Beings Keys Fellows Medicine Patient Curiosity Endeavor Physicians Limitless Good Science

Author:Abraham Verghese

“I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.”

Ifs Humans Choices Names Human Beings Quality Endeavor High Quality Good Choices

Author:Nate Silver

“Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.”

Men Bigs Kids Imagination Creative Influence Green Profound Endeavor Avoiding Blueberries Godzilla

Author:Jeremy Robinson

“You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor”

Ifs Made Son Worthy Ease Endeavor Pioneers Ancestry True Success

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

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