| "Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear." »Granville Sharp |
| "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." »Socrates |
| "Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him." »George Santayana |
| "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 |
| "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." »Robyn Davidson |
| "Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts." »Siddha Nagarjuna |
| "Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another." »Kenny Ausubel |
| "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 |
| "Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God." »Alan Stewart Paton |
| "Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." »Socrates |
| "endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will" »Thomas a Kempis |
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