Undertakings Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

  Stephen Foster

  Home, Names, Long

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• I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Good Luck, Ghetto, Sacrifice

  Address to the Officers and Men of the Third Armored Division, www.3ad.com. June 02, 1944.

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• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Life, Enthusiasm

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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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 person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Fathers Day, Strong

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• Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Pain

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

  Martin Luther

  Procrastination, Waiting, Favors

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• The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Procrastination, Cutting

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.101

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• 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 powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

  Anil Ambani

  Dream, Father, Hard Work

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• Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

  William James

  Success, Confidence, Believe

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• People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

  Ovid

  Confidence, People, Claims

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• In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

  Lee Iacocca

  Failure, Glory

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.354, Bantam

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• 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. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Perseverance, Succeed

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.54, Bantam

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• 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 are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

  Napoleon Hill

  Decision, Earth, Succeed

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• 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 most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Discovery

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• It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Responsibility, Weak

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mistake, Events, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 68, 1799.

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• [Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Book, Reading

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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

  Kind, Natural, Increase

  United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the secretary of the Treasury of the United States”, p.76

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• I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

  George Washington

  Destiny, Answers, Revolution

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.123

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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 that public authorities may expand their efforts in the work of development? Is he prepared to pay more for imported goods, so that the foreign producer may make a fairer profit? Is he prepared to emigrate from his homeland if necessary and if he is young, in order to help the emerging nations?

  Pope Paul VI

  Order, Support, Effort

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• The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

  Gustavus Franklin Swift

  Inspirational, Motivation, Hard Work

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• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

  Richard Posner

  Diversity, People, Achievement

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• Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Government, Forever

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Country, Baby, Fighting

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