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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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Epictetus
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Philosopher
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50
Died:
138
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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
Life
Quality
Commitment
Endeavor
Field
Direct
Excellence
Proportion
Person
Regardless
Chosen
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Will
Sorry
Endeavor
Live
Come
Undertaker
Die
Us
Even
Let Us
People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
Evander Holyfield
Work
Jealous
You
People
Work Hard
Envy
Endeavor
Whatever
Top
Willing
Give
Put
Study
Reach
Make
Praise
Get
Max
Same
Want
Themselves
Choice
Hard
Who
Level
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
Good
You
Endeavor
Reputation
Way
Good Reputation
Gain
Appear
Desire
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Man
Endeavor
Ability
More
Fact
Know
His
Encouraging
Than
Elevate
Conscious
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
Adversity
Great
Man
Words
Matter
Endeavor
Field
Every
Benefit
Lies
Seed
Great Man
Magic
Known
Greater
Equivalent
Successful
Successful Man
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
Good
Man
Sports
Three
Endeavor
Field
Considered
Out
Ten
Only
Performer
Times
Where
Succeed
Baseball
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm.
Charles Albert Gobat
Today
Reality
Progress
Political
Tomorrow
Hopeless
Become
Endeavor
Those
Laugh
Would
Logic
Constant
Plunge
True
Conceived
Fresh
Am
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Optimistic
Human
Regards
Which
Social
Mankind
Pessimism
Who
Utopia
Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
Elizabeth Banks
Great
Me
Heart
Endeavor
Pain
Baby
Everything
Way
Someone
Having
Having A Baby
Outside
Had
He
Crushes
Like
Until
Make
Great Way
Sure
Around
Understand
Does
Walking
Literally
Then
Body
Your
Your Body
Whole
Now
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
John Huston
Crime
Endeavor
Only
Left-Handed
Human
Form
After
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