A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but… — George Washington Goethals Copy Share Image
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
So what should we say when children complete a task—say, math problems—quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued… — John Kador Copy Share Image
Sometimes the tasks we take on seem virtually impossible. But amazingly, when we harness the incredible power of the subconscious in our… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to… — John Owen Copy Share Image
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If we were left to ourselves with the task of taking the gospel to the world, we would immediately begin planning innovative… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Time Management Tips: One can make a radar-like sweep of the horizon to identify time and task challenges while these are still… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Whether dualistic, qualified monistic, or monistic, they all firmly believe that everything is in the soul itself; it has only to come… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Casting is 50% of your task. If you cast well, you're halfway through. — Susan Seidelman Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy. — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
