Undertaking Quotes

150 quotes by 136 authors

Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an… — Jon Krakauer
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the… — Harlan Ellison
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you… — Napoleon Hill
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.… — Og Mandino
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. — William James
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking… — Anil Ambani
If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a… — Bernie Siegel
Flying from L.A. to India is an arduous undertaking. I regard myself more as a trans-Atlantic citizen than an Indian. — Satya Bhabha
It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking. — Pericles
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to… — Kathryn Lasky
I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How… — Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. — Richard L. Evans
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently… — Georg Cantor
Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as… — James Loeb
U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter. — Lee H. Hamilton

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