Quotes with undertake

  • The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
  • People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
  • To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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  • Napoleon With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Burgess Owens I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Quentin Crisp Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bennie Thompson Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Walker Percy The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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