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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Quote by Francis Bacon about obstacles, wealth, wife, virtue, children

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about mediocrity, end, man

I'm such a devoted web user, myself, that it feels important to me to have a presence, to be a part of that whole collective enterprise.

Quote by Michael Chabon

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about present

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, essential, world

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about adventure, impossible, peace

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about unforeseen, power

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Quote by Erich Fromm about activity, love