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endeavors
«No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.»
Author: Baudjuin
| Keywords:
endeavors, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizes, neutralizing, saturate, saturated
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Happiness,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
Advances, by the hour, common, commoner, confidently, direction, dreams, endeavored, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, meet, To Live, unexpected
«Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.»
Author: Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
| Keywords:
admits, egoism, endeavors, legality, religious ceremony
«In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.»
«No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Miracles,
Reality,
Truth
| Keywords:
endeavors, miraculous, testimony
«Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse. But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
alliance, attends, civil law, Civil society, commercial, composed, composes, deserving, endeavors, evident, injuries, intercourse, mutually, nominally, that name, The Animal, whence, wholesome
«If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advances, confidently, direction, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, unexpected
«Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attempts, endeavors, forbear, forbearing, invigoration, timidity
«In spite of the declarations, you will notice in the career of the same Krishna that He underwent defeat in His efforts or endeavors, on a few occasions you must have also noted that those defeats too, were part of the drama, which He had planned, and He Himself directed.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
defeats, directed, endeavors, Krishna, underwent
«It makes a man a coward. . . . It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beggars, by chance, coward, endeavors, fills, out-of-town, purse, restore, towns, turned out