Quotes About Task

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.

He that succeeds makes an important thing of the immediate task.

Again, the most effective (and least destructive) way to help a child succeed—whether she's writing or skiing, playing a trumpet or a computer game—is to do everything possible to help her fall in love with what she's doing, to pay less attention to how successful she was (or is likely to be) and show more interest in the task. That's just another way of saying that we need to encourage more, judge less, and love always.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a how answer to what is really a why question.

There was no way that he could repair the damage done to their past; it was a task completely beyond his means. The path he chose–shutting himself off–was perhaps the only way of putting together a life for himself and avoiding damage from his mother's projections.

It shouldn't be an afterthought. The right environment around you can make whatever job you're doing pleasurable, no matter how small the task.

A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one you're given.n

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than to live with the fear of it.

Some things you do, not because they're pleasant, but because they have to be done.

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?" "I know—it's a dream come true!

Act! act!—it is to that end we are here. Should we fret ourselves that others are not so perfect as we are, when we ourselves are only somewhat less imperfect than they? Is not this our greatest perfection,—the vocation which has been given to us,—that we must labour for the perfecting of others? Let us rejoice in the prospect of that widely extended field which we are called to cultivate! Let us rejoice that power is given to us, and that our task is infinite!

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.