Undertake Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

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.

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.

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.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

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

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

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.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.

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

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

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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.

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

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

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.