Undertakings Quotes · Page 9

I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of…

— Richard N. Haass

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

One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To…

— Kate DiCamillo

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

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

Any praise I receive does not change me, for I pass it right along to God. I walk because God gives me…

— Peace Pilgrim

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

— Haruki Murakami

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to…

— Mao Zedong

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

— Samuel Johnson

We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it…

— Herbert Hoover

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

— Herodotus

The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and…

— Frederick Lenz

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

— Rose Byrne

It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon…

— Daniel Defoe

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential…

— Napoleon Hill