Undertakings Quotes - Page 8

• did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sea, Southern, Brave

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.256, Collector's Library

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• Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, Responsibility, Our World

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• Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any mountain I'd been on; I quickly came to understand that climbing Everest was primarily about enduring pain. And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking above all else, something like a state of grace.

  Jon Krakauer

  Pain, Climbing, Order

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Aug 27, 2011

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• This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

  William Shakespeare

  Desperate, Violent, Hamlet Love

  1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet. Hamlet, act 2, sc.1, l.103-5.

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• Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

  Andre Maurois

  Life, Motivational, Real

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• In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

  Booker T. Washington

  Successful, Thinking, Order

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

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• In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Couple, Husband, Agreement

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.1807, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There are many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding of something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Children, Feet, Two

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.41, Grove Press

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• The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Struggle, Player, Mind

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• We'll be there, Harry," said Ron "What?" "At your Aunt and Uncle's house," said Ron, "And then we'll go with you wherever you're going." "No-" said Harry quickly; he hadn't counted on this, he had meant them to understand that he was undertaking the most dangerous journey alone. "You said it once before," said Hermione quickly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't we? We're with you whatever happens.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Journey

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• There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Thinking, Mind

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• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

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• My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Should, Difficult, Immortal

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Harmony, Lasting

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• Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se  rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Series

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• There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Men, Faces

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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• If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

  Ovid

  Success, Succeed, Glorious

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• In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

  Wesley Morris

  Patience, Perception, Youth

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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, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

  John Galsworthy

  Writing, Bridges, House

  John Galsworthy (2015). “The Forsyte Saga Complete Edition: The Forsyte Saga + A Modern Comedy + End of the Chapter + On Forsyte ‘Change (A Prequel to Forsyte Saga): Complete Nine Novels”, p.2228, e-artnow

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• Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

  Epictetus

  Life, Steps, Looks

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• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cutting, Winning, Ships

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.34, Penguin

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• It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

  Publilius Syrus

  Please, Hard

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 675, 1856.

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• In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dark, Determined, Socialism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

  Ayn Rand

  Action, Slave, Granted

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.228, Penguin

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• Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Creative, Meditation, Important

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.19, BookBaby

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