(65 quotes found)
“Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.”
Colin Powell
“If it requires a uniform it's a worthless endeavor”
George Carlin
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.”
Sidney Lanier
“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”
Albert Einstein
“Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue”
Charles Simmons
“We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.”
John Stuart Mill
“Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.”
W. Eugene Smith
“He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person”
Latin Proverb
“But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.”
Thomas Kempis
“To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven”
Charles V
