Top 69 Undertakings Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Undertakings

#1. Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.

#2. The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#3. Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. It is impossible to know when a fish swimming in water drinks some of it. Thus it's quite impossible to find out when government servants in charge of undertakings misappropriate money.

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

Gustavus Franklin Swift

#6. There are some works so luminous ... so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.

Herve Le Tellier

#7. At the very moment when the world seems to break up we still take it seriously and perform reasonable acts and undertakings, the condemned man still drinks his glass of rum. To call it everyday and condemn it as inauthentic is to fail to recognize the sincerity of hunger and thirst

Emmanuel Levinas

#8. Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

Isabel Allende

#9. The degree of success that you attain in all of your physical, mental and spiritual undertakings is dependent upon the strength and clarity of your finite mind and your ability to access your infinite mind.

Frederick Lenz

#10. 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

#11. My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

Richard Diebenkorn

#12. The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ...

H.L. Mencken

#14. God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians.

Karl Barth

#15. One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.

Theodor Haecker

#16. He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

Chanakya

#17. It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Eric Hoffer

#18. And now, increasing in business and in wealth, my head began to be full of projects and undertakings beyond my reach; such as are indeed often the ruin of the best heads in business.

Daniel Defoe

#19. But the bequest is involved in legal disputes, and pending them the work has stopped; so that like many other great undertakings in America, even this is rather going to be done one of these days, than doing now.

Charles Dickens

#20. If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Mitch Kapor

#21. When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Julia Ward Howe

#22. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves!

Lao-Tzu

#23. The Machinist ain't exactly loquacious when it comes down to his nefarious undertakings.

Kady Cross

#24. For we Germans are snoring, buried in sleep and wine, and we are destitute of leaders who could measure up in wisdom, strategy, and strength of heart to manage such great undertakings.

Martin Luther

#25. 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

#26. I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors possess little enough.

Anthony Powell

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

William Shakespeare

#28. All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Samuel Johnson

#30. The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

#31. The ... provisional government unwaveringly believes that it can solve all the present problems together with the broad masses of Ethiopia. However, we can do this only if all the people come out in unison to implement our planned undertakings.

Meles Zenawi

#32. Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#33. 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

#34. It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road.

Daniel Defoe

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

Lee Iacocca

#36. Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

Ludwig Von Mises

#37. All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

Swami Vivekananda

#38. The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gray, and the new day was already used, a little soiled by mistaken thoughts and makeshift undertakings.

Tove Jansson

#39. One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

Albert Einstein

#40. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Mikhail Bakunin

#41. I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like that. When you're a ways into it, you're five pages in, 20 pages in, 30 pages in, it seems like one of the more oxymoronic undertakings you could attempt.

Will Oldham

#42. Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Euripides

#43. He connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days.That discovery excited him so much more than any of his other hair-brained undertakings

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#44. Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility

Sunday Adelaja

#45. Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#46. Make a distinction between positive contingencies, and negative. Learn to distinguish between those human undertakings in which a lack of predictability has been extremely beneficial, and those where failure to understand the future has caused harm.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#47. 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

#48. Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Sophie Swetchine

#49. In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

Akhenaton

#50. Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

Anthony Trollope

#51. I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

David H. Murdock

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

Eric Hoffer

#53. 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

#54. Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#55. Niel felt tonight that the right man could still save her, even now. She was still her own indomitable self, going through her old part,--but only the stage hands were left to listen to her. All those who had shared in fine undertakings and bright occasions were gone.

Willa Cather

#56. No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

Swami Vivekananda

#57. Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.

Rodney Stark

#58. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.

Deborah L. Parker

#59. For what is most dreaded is not the agony of dying, nor yet the strange impossibility that when we do not exist we should suffer for not existing. What is dreaded is the defeat of a present will directed upon life and its various undertakings.

George Santanyana