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Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. -- George Washington
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy. -- George Washington
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven! -- Pope Urban II
Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart. -- Jack Kornfield
Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. -- Ronald Osborne
Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party). -- Jack Kornfield
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. -- Edwin Land
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. -- Francois Rabelais
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. -- Charles de Montesquieu
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. -- Donald Trump
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. -- Noam Chomsky
Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it. -- Andrew Greeley
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. -- John Dewey
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
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. -- Christopher Columbus
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. -- Orison Swett Marden
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. -- Wole Soyinka
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls, but also the work of our hands will prosper. -- George Muller
There are orphans that can be cared for; but this some will not venture to undertake, for it brings them work more than they care to do, leaving them but little time to please themselves. -- Ellen G. White
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. -- Neville Chamberlain
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
Working together in concert more smoothly not only helps us move more quickly; it changes the nature of what we can undertake. When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams. -- Justin Rosenstein
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. -- Walker Percy
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to. -- Julia Cameron
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
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right. -- Francesco Guicciardini
As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. -- Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act. -- Julia Cameron
Joyfully we undertake our daily work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish. -- Roger McDonald
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. -- Gertrude Stein
Act non-action; undertake no undertaking; taste the tasteless. -- Laozi
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success. -- Jules Verne
I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great. -- Julius Erving
It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs. -- John Dewey
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise. -- Woodrow Wilson
I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. -- Arnon Goldfinger
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel. -- Joan Didion
Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life. -- Chris Hanburger
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work. -- Anton Chekhov
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. -- Quentin Crisp
In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it -- Epictetus
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all. -- Sathya Sai Baba
When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed. -- Franz Bardon
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share. -- John F. Kennedy
If you have humility, you are willing to undertake anything to spread the dharma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it. -- Thomas Paine
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time. -- John Locke
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. -- Michel de Montaigne
Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. -- Luc de Clapiers
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody. -- George Washington
We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe. -- Julia Cameron
To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before -- Michel Foucault
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. -- Charles de Montesquieu
Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it. -- Frances Beinecke
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. -- Herman Melville
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. -- Gertrude Stein
There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image. -- Norman Lock
If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give. -- Simon Sinek
I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos. -- Al-Saadi Gaddafi
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance. -- Brian Tracy
Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being. -- Anne Foy
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. -- Edmund Burke
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. -- Woodrow Wilson
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success... -- John Locke
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. -- Magha
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing. -- Bill Toomey
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. -- Emile M. Cioran
I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. -- Maya Angelou
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest. -- David Blunkett
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Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake. -- Bennie Thompson
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap. -- Carolyn Keene
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79) -- Stephen Levine
The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it. -- Epictetus
The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up. -- Quentin Crisp
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at. -- Wajdi Mouawad
The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God. -- Charles Spurgeon
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. -- George Eliot
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work. -- Harold Rosenberg
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day. -- Vance Havner
I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. -- John Wesley
It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer. -- William Shakespeare
We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms. -- Nelson Mandela
I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest. -- Joseph Hume
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
The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will again sink in debates, mutual recriminations and half-steps -- Yevgeny Primakov
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. -- Ambrose Bierce
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. -- Azim Premji
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them. -- Barry Goldwater
Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake. -- Dale Carnegie
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied. -- Herman Melville
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. -- L. Neil Smith
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. -- Phillips Brooks
The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. -- Ellsworth Huntington
I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel. -- Henry David Thoreau
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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