#endeavor

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best. ↗

— Paul Oakenfold

#endeavor #friends #i #i wish #morris

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. ↗

— William Penn

#does #enables #endeavors #excites #godliness

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#always #away #bar #crazy #creatures

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor. ↗

— Chris Patten

#backside #endeavor #getting #i #i think

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

#avoid #brought #defend #duty #endeavor

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#become #belief #common #community #done

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#attention #concentration #detail #endeavor #requires

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democratic #democratic process #endeavor #ethiopia #folks