Tasks Quotes
1915 quotes by 1287 authors
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that…
— John F. Kennedy
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Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together…
— Russell Baker
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Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative…
— Sigmund Freud
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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter…
— Robert Breault
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As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung…
— Robert Breault
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Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.
— Robert Breault
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Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
— Mary E. DeMuth
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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To keep Nigeria ONE, is a task that must be DONE...
— Barack Obama
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
— Seneca the Younger
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When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.
— Laozi
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When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's…
— Phillips Brooks
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Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— Phillips Brooks
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My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon…
— Abraham Lincoln
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No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.
— Haim Ginott
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