Embarking Quotes

• Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

  Confucius

  Karma, Revenge, Philosophy

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• Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Journey, People

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• All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

  Lin Yutang

  Death, Order, Rivers

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

  Donald Barthelme

  Writing, Knowing, Doe

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• We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

  Jules Feiffer

  Firsts, Aspect, Our Lives

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• I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Running, Mad, Risk

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.77, Hackett Publishing

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• If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Creation, Ifs

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• The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.

  John William Strutt

  Believe, Science, May

  "Introduction to Waterston's Memoir 'On the physics of media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic molecules in a state of motion'". Philosophical Transactions, p. 1-5, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org. January 1, 1892.

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• We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements.

  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

  Climate, United States, Projects

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• God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Thinking, Intellectual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Firsts

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
  Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Should Have, Astronomy, Creation

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• Endeavor's partnership with Bain took off at just the right moment. We were embarking on our '3.0' organizational strategy, and thanks to the compelling analysis, entrepreneurial zeal and tireless commitment of our Bain team, we've emerged with a world-class plan. We look forward to continuing our high-impact work with Bain!

  Linda Rottenberg

  Team, Commitment, Impact

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• Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Eugenics, Law

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• Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

  Nancy Pearl

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Nancy Pearl (2009). “Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason”, p.11, Sasquatch Books

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• And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Simple

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.122, Penguin

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Historical, Principles, Different

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• You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Adventure, Responsibility, Self

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• When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"

  George Saunders

  Writing, School, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

  Murray Kempton

  Commitment, Journey, Degrees

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• The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Book, Law

  "Commentaries For A New American Passover Seder, Jonathan Safran Foer Presents New Haggadah", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  David Cerone

  Inspiration, Moving, Home

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• The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.

  Greg Nickels

  Kids, Epic, Opportunity

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• I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

  Vladimir Putin

  Book, Adventure, Character

  "Vladimir Putin’s Reading List" by Ian Crouch, www.newyorker.com. May 24, 2011.

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• We currently have a government planning to go to Mars, heal broken marriages, and build bridges to nowhere - and also one that cannot wage a war competently, cannot respond to a hurricane adequately, and cannot enforce borders. Is it too much to ask that it get the basic things right before embarking on grandiose schemes?

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Government, Bridges

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