He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
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.
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased.
The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.
The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.
The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. . . . We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects us to larger worlds that, in the busyness of our daily struggle to achieve, we have not yet investigated. Silence is the soul's break for freedom.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
