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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

Related topics: Motivational

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

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


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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 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

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

 

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

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

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

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 way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.
- The Buddha

Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do
- don Miguel Ruiz

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard

Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov

You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Follow that will and that way
which experience confirms to be your own.
- Carl Jung

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett

By respect for life we become religious in a way
that is elementary, profound and alive.
- Albert Schweitzer

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie



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