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Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings. -- George Morgan
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. -- Samuel Johnson
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude. -- Ovid
I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money. -- David H. Murdock
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -- John Galsworthy
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. -- Euripides
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. -- Helen Mirren
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. -- Eric Hoffer
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings. -- Mitch Kapor
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
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
Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc. -- Ellen Key
I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today. -- Guy Laliberte
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians. -- Karl Barth
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure. -- Lee Iacocca
The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance -- Gustavus Franklin Swift
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. -- Cormac McCarthy
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings. -- Chanakya
One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name. -- Albert Einstein
It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. -- Eric Hoffer
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
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings. -- William Shakespeare
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -- Sophie Swetchine
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. -- Akhenaton
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. -- Richard Diebenkorn
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
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
Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution. -- Giacomo Leopardi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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

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