“ I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. ”
- Sextus Propertius- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 4K
“ These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission… to boldly go where no man has gone before. ”
- Gene Roddenberry- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ”
- Anthony Perkins- Copy
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“ Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Age — that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. ”
- Greg Norman- Copy
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“ It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 4K
“ Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life's adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings. ”
- Lincoln Steffens- Copy
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“ Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If this escapade has taught me anything, it's that you never know what's in the future. ”
- Mary Schmich- Copy
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“ To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure. ”
- Valentina Tereshkova- Copy
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“ Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing. ”
- Marie Carmichael Stopes- Copy
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“ The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go. ”
- Paul Williams- Copy
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“ We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. ”
- Hannes Alfven- Copy
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“ Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ”
- William Howard Taft- Copy
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“ A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. ”
- Virgil- Copy
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“ When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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