Assignments Quotes

• The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

  Myles Munroe

  Successful, Life Is, Failure In Life

  Myles Munroe (2010). “Applying the Kingdom”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth

  Myles Munroe

  Heaven, Purpose, Earth

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• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "How Doing What You Love Serves Humanity" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2009.

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• In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Military, Mean, Hands

  "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Congresswoman-Elect, Applies For Daniel Inouye’s Senate Seat" by B.J. Reyes, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

  Chip Kidd

  Long, Long Life, Life Is

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Learners: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

  Max Lucado

  Skills, Giving, Study

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.

  David Doubilet

  Discovery, Voyages, Voyages Of Discovery

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• The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.

  David Shibley

  Prayer, Fire, Giving

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• When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In God's eyes, the greatest heroes of faith are not those who achieve prosperity, success, and power in this life, but those who treat life as a temporary assignment and serve faithfully, expecting their promised reward in eternity.

  Rick Warren

  Faith, Christian, Hero

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

  Linda Tripp

  Respect, Deserving

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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Interest, Decided

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• Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

  Jessica Savitch

  Attitude, Focus, Prejudice

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Giving, Inspire

  "Jim Gaffigan talks Domino's, Law & Order, and having the gall to accept serious acting roles". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. January 28, 2010.

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• What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

  Lois Lowry

  Preparation, Training, Important

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Film, Valuable

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• It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

  Charles Kuralt

  Fun, America, Years

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• My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Telling The Truth

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• History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Jobs, Military, War

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• Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter.

  David Neeleman

  People, Wife, Flying

  "ON THE RECORD: DAVID NEELEMAN / Jetblue Airways". SFGate Interview, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2004.

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• I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Years, Europe

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• I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Vietnam, Literature

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• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Eight, Years

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