Undertakes Quotes

55 quotes by 43 authors

This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection… — George MacDonald
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human… — John Steinbeck
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his… — Wendell Berry
Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation,… — Richard P. Bland
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an… — Vance Havner
Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be… — Robert H. Jackson
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,… — Harold Rosenberg
Our position is such that we can be rescued from eternal death and translated into life only by total and unceasing substitution, the substitution which… — Karl Barth
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to… — Alexander Pope
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. — Frederick Lenz
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give… — Charles Caleb Colton
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His… — Ben Jonson
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. — Albert Einstein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see,… — Robert A. Heinlein
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. — Victor Kiam
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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