The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance — Gustavus Franklin Swift Copy Share Image
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image. — Catherine McAuley Copy Share Image
My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur.… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a serious undertaking and yes, we do need more fencing and we do need to use technology, and we do… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you… — Crispian Mills Copy Share Image
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
