Tasks Quotes · Page 22

Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

— Anonymous

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

— Kate DiCamillo

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

— Brendan Behan

A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

— Laozi

A menial task which must be mine, that shall I glorify and make an art of it.

— Walter Russell

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

— Helen Rowland

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

— George W. Bush

Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.

— John Daishin Buksbazen

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

— Aldous Huxley

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

— Kim Edwards

Regardless of how little time and work someone takes to perform a task, there has to be a more efficient and effective…

— Ernie J Zelinski

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them…it is not the magnitude…

— Matthieu Ricard

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

— Jef Raskin

I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

— Wole Soyinka

The mind may be reluctant to think properly when thinking is all it is supposed to do; the task can be as…

— Alain de Botton

Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is…

— T.I

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as…

— Conrad Veidt

I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical…

— Napoleon Hill

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but…

— Vivian Gornick

It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, laid…

— Starhawk

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently…

— Sue Thoele

I think the reason I like making movies sometimes more than doing TV is that you have one task, you only have…

— Jenny Slate

I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as…

— Jason Mraz

The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based…

— Noam Chomsky

[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether…

— Elie Wiesel

Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of…

— John Burroughs

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you…

— Elfriede Jelinek

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was…

— Judith Martin

To embody a new paradigm of civilization - to learn to think like a planet in order to heal and nurture a…

— David Spangler

At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and…

— Jerome Kagan

There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to…

— Sean Faris

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

— Melvil Dewey

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

— Guy Finley

“The truth is that the most important tasks don’t always scream the loudest.”

— Readtrepreneur Publishing

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

— John Ortberg

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

— Cornel West

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

— Martin Van Buren

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

— Karen Armstrong