Endeavour Quotes - Page 7

• Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

  Chris Cornell

  Differences, Personality, Leaving

  ""Audioslave no more ?"". IGN Music, www.ign.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Two, Grace, Answers

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “The Mother”, p.8, Lotus Press

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• Cada uno debe considerarse responsable no sólo de su propia conducta, sino también de la de los demás; y responsable no sólo de los deberes que descuida o de los delitos que comete, sino también de la negligencia e irregularidad que puede fomentar o inculcar. Todo hombre, cualquiera que sea su posición, tiene, o procura tener, seguidores, admiradores e imitadores, y tiene, por tanto, que vigilar con cuidado la influencia de su ejemplo.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Example, Watches

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• La alabanza justa es sólo una deuda, pero la adulación es un regalo. El reconocimiento de aquellas virtudes por las que la conciencia nos felicita es un tributo que podemos exigir en cualquier momento con confianza; pero la celebración de aquellas que sólo fingimos, o deseamos sin ningún esfuerzo vigoroso para alcanzarlas, es recibida como una confesión de soberanía sobre regiones nunca conquistadas, como una decisión favorable de reclamaciones discutibles, y es más bienvenida como más gratuita.

  Samuel Johnson

  Decision, Desire, Debt

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.294

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• If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Winning, Doe, Accord

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• Puesto que es necesario tener enemigos, procuremos tener aquellos que nos honren.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Enemy, Honour

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.91, London : Daldy, Isbister

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• Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Mean, Holiday, Men

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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

  J. Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Generations

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• Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

  Horacio Bonar

  Hombres, Maldad, Culpa

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.7

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• Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Moving, Heart

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• Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

  Christine Lagarde

  Inspiring, Mean, Accountability

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• Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to do everything in opposition to what Christ did and does.

  Juan de Kronstadt

  Men, Enemy, Devil

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• The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

  Juan de Kronstadt

  Passion, Heart, Mean

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• Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.239

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• La mente, el alma, se ennoblece con el empeño de crear algo perfecto, pues Dios es perfección, y quien se esfuerza por alcanzar la perfección se esfuerza por conseguir algo divino.

  Miguel Ángel

  Perfect, Soul, Mind

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• It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, May, Vain

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.158

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• Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

  Isaac Newton

  Lying, Moving, Body

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• If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

  Alcuin

  Land, People, Athens

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• No podemos controlar si se nos recompensa por nuestros esfuerzos, con dinero o reconocimiento. No depende de nosotros cuánto dinero o tiempo recibimos en la Tierra, pero sí cómo lo gastamos.

  Julian Baggini

  Earth, Cash, Recognition

  " What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.

  George Washington

  Country, Giving, Consistency

  George Washington, Moncure D. Conway, Julius F. Sachse, Washington Irving, Joseph Meredith Toner (2017). “The Complete Works of George Washington: Military Journals, Rules of Civility, Writings on French and Indian War, Presidential Work, Inaugural Addresses, Messages to Congress, Letters & Biography”, p.1297, Madison & Adams

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• La islamofobia, en todas sus formas, trata de minimizar la importancia del individuo y maximizar la importancia del grupo. Sin embargo, nuestra postura instintiva debería ser de sospecha ante tales esfuerzos. Es innegable que los individuos son reales. Los grupos, en cambio, son afirmaciones de opinión.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Real, Manos, Grupos

  "El islam no es un monolito", por Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. 19 de mayo de 2013.

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• I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

  Robert E. Lee

  Party, Intelligent, Men

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.241, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Mis padres me apoyaron mucho en mis proyectos artísticos. Mi padre y mi madre vinieron a todas las obras que hice en el colegio.

  Jack Black

  Madre, padre, escuela

  "Jack Black: Los valores de mi familia". Entrevista con Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. 13 de mayo de 2011.

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