Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract. — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking… the most audacious adventure that one can dare. — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking,… — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking,… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
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