Undertaking Quotes
150 quotes by 136 authors
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If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.
— Ovid
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In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can,…
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your…
— Napoleon Hill
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Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
— Arnold Bennett
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The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
— Alexis Carrel
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Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about.…
— Zhuangzi
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You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.
— Napoleon Hill
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My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.
— Peter Paul Rubens
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through…
— Mao Zedong
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Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more…
— Vincent de Paul
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Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll…
— Samuel Beckett
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The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most…
— Judith Barrington
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Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.
— Laura M. Brotherson
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We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,…
— Ronald Reagan
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To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and…
— Michelle Huneven
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Enthusiasm means everything. Not just a little. Everything. If you are involved in some kind of project right now, or launching any personal endeavor, your…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for…
— Deepak Chopra
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