Undertakings Quotes - Page 6

• 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 ones.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  America, United States, Multitudes

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.157

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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, duplication is inevitable.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Lying, Innovation, Trying

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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 chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leader, Soul, Trying

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “You Can Work Your Own Miracles”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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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, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Song, Sex

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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

  Littles, Too Much, Human Nature

  Arnold Bennett (2015). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Human Understanding”, p.6, 谷月社

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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 the general concerns of the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  World, May, Concern

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• The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

  Alexis Carrel

  Adventure, Dare, Audacious

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

  Helen Mirren

  Understanding, Important, Our Lives

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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. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Mean, Knowing

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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

  Importance, Plans, Engaged

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Courage, Size, Talent

  Peter Paul Rubens, Toledo Museum of Art (1991). “The Crowning of Saint Catherine: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640”

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• Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

  David Lilienthal

  Reality, Government, Pieces

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• Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Life, Past, Trying

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• Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Latin, Pyramids, America

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Mother, Responsibility, Challenges

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• The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

  Daniel Kemmis

  World, Common, Abstract

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• Marriage is an undertaking that requires focused time and attention to prepare effectively.

  Laura M. Brotherson

  Attention, Focused

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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, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Years, Europe

  Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, delivered 6 June 1984 in Pointe Du Hoc, Normandy, France

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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 control.

  Michelle Huneven

  Love Is, Issues, Finding Love

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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 truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doubt, Age, Quests

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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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 enthusiasm (or lack of it) will directly determine how successful this undertaking will be. If you are not excited at the core of your being by it, drop it right now. If you are excited at the core of your being, demonstrate that in everything you think and say and do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 20, 2014

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• Writing is an undertaking for the modest.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Modest

  Marianne Moore, Patricia C. Willis (1986). “The complete prose of Marianne Moore”, Viking Pr

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• Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

  Jessica Valenti

  Children, Rearing A Child, Child Rearing

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

  George Will

  Sports, Religious, Greek

  George F. Will (2010). “Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Secret, Nations

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