Undertake Quotes
226 quotes by 180 authors
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
— Herman Melville
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility…
— Walker Percy
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I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
— Francois Rabelais
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will…
— Nathan Meyer Rothschild
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure…
— Ariel Sharon
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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
— Gertrude Stein
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Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
— Bill Toomey
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
— Donald Trump
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There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care…
— Ellen G. White
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one…
— George Orwell
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Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis:…
— C.S. Lewis
Who Wrote These Undertake Quotes
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