Quotes About Undertaking

I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

For Jefferson, politics was not a dispiriting distraction but an undertaking that made everything else possible.

while the whole operation

The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

You, therefore, who are undertaking the study of this book, if you persevere to the end and understand it, you will be either a monarch or a madman. Do what you will with this volume, you will be unable to despise or to forget it.

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Like my parishioner Congressman John Lewis, I believe that voting is a sacred undertaking, and we must keep marching until we secure the sacred right to vote for every eligible American.

The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.

I think that the BBC's attitude toward the show while it was in production was very similar to that which Macbeth had toward murdering people—initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm and then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking and still no end in sight.

similar to that which Macbeth had towards murdering people – initial doubts, followed by cautious enthusiasm and then greater and greater alarm at the sheer scale of the undertaking and still no end in sight.

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

It was a damned awkward undertaking, trying to think of loving words, and he had absolutely no experience in this area, but he was still determined not to muck it up. Even with his men watching, he wanted the words to be right, his declaration to be one she would always remember. The moment needed to be perfect for her. Judith, he began. Yes, Iain? I'm keeping you.

The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are.

No one knows what it is that he can do until he tries.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.