Undertakes Quotes
55 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
— Victor Kiam
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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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