Undertake Quotes

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

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.

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.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

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.

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

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.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

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.

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.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.