Undaunted Quotes - Page 2

• Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.

  Christine Caine

  Beautiful, Humanity, Heartbeat

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise.

  John By

  Successful, Engineering, Accomplishment

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• Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Hero, Self

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Memorial Day, Military, War

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

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• To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty.

  Joanna Baillie

  Beauty, Powerful, Rude

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.36

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• I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

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• In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Life, Success, Science

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• Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Kids, Disability, Painful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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