Task Quotes

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Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the… — John Archibald Wheeler
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. — John Buchan
I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store.… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion… — Henry James
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. — Leo Tolstoy
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.… — Rollo May
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying… — Saint Francis de Sales
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical… — William Bennett
Send the harmony of a Great Desire vibrating through every fiber of your being. Pray for a task that will call forth your faith, your… — Thomas Dreier
Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life. — Viktor E. Frankl
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice. — H.G. Wells
It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning… — Ludwig von Mises
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit… — Pope Benedict XVI
Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. — Vera Brittain
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the… — John F. Kennedy
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most… — Mary Parker Follett
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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