(109 quotes found)
“He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.”
Chanakya
“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome.”
William James
“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win / essential to success.”
Napoleon Hill
“Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.”
William Arthur Ward
“If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.”
Jessica Mitford
“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h”
“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
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
Jorge Luis Borges
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