Task Quotes

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Beauty, Nature, Living

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

Success, Work, Best

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Great, Long, Small

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Before, Here

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

Single, May, Act

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Anger, Done

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

Down, Modern, Cut

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo

Life, Peace, Great

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Future, True, Problem

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Art, Proper

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, True, Human

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

Work, Happiness, Best

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Cannot, Everyone

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

Morning, Fire, Through

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Able, Ourselves

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy

Greatest, Children, Blessings

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius

Strength, Within, Beyond

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy

Future, Human, Understand

My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack Obama

Two, Try, Problems

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James

Nothing, Eternal, Hanging

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

Attitude, Successful, Else

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
Erich Fromm

Insecurity, Person, Able

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quite, Sides, Unworthy

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino

May, Service, Matter

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

Change, Learning, Learn

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Two, Between, Solitude

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra

Peace, Time, Important

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Michelangelo

Inside, Discover, Stone

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