Undertakings Quotes
50 Undertakings quotes by 43 unique authors
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I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
— Eric Hoffer
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Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to…
— Allen Wheelis
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One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
— Albert Einstein
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When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the…
— Julia Ward Howe
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The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance
— Unknown Author
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Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay higher taxes so…
— Pope Paul VI
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The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.
— Alexander Hamilton
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A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently…
— H. L. Mencken
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The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
— Edwidge Danticat
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My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.
— Richard Diebenkorn
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Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus taught his students that what happens to them is not as important as what they believe happens to them. In…
— Stanley Krippner
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with…
— Mencius
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Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what…
— Laozi
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No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.
— Swami Vivekananda
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In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and…
— Walther Rathenau
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He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
— Chanakya
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge,…
— John Galsworthy
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But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.
— Helen Mirren
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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