Difficult Tasks Quotes

• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Happiness, Uplifting, Funny Inspirational

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• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• When you come upon a difficult task ... start.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Tasks, Difficult

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• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

  Dan Millman

  Recovery, Tasks, Done

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• Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

  Og Mandino

  Effort, Energy, Tasks

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• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  Albert Bandura

  People, Challenges, Tasks

  Albert Bandura (1997). “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles... Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Helen Keller's Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, July 8, 1896.

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• Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead

  Denise Austin

  Attitude, Feel Better, Inspire

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Oct 04, 2011

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• When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

  Seth Godin

  Tasks, Difficult, Values

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• If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Tasks, Difficult, Ifs

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• Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

  Isaac Watts

  Trust, Tasks, Difficult

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• It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Shining, Trying

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• Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you. Do it better than it need be done. Next time doing it will be child's play. Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. I know this sounds old-fashioned. It is, but it has built the world.

  Harlow Curtice

  Jobs, Children, Adversity

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• Why do the easy expected thing? It takes guts to follow your dreams. Courage. Many people, even those who love you, don't understand how compelling that can be, and will try to keep you in the “safety zone”. But f*#! that. Half the fun is venturing into the unknown, taking on the difficult task that yields new knowledge, doing more and testing your limits.

  Marshall Ulrich

  Dream, Fun, Love You

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• People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

  Albert Bandura

  Hard Work, Self, People

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• Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

  Laozi

  Life, Issues, Tasks

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• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  Isak Dinesen

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Time

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Tasks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Giving, Stupidity

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• The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is learning to see photographically — that is, learning to see his subject matter in terms of the capacities of his tools and processes, so that he can instantaneously translate the elements and values in a scene before him into the photograph he wants to make.

  Edward Weston

  Important, Cameras, Tasks

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

  Barack Obama

  Character, Responsibility, Giving

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

  Rene Dubos

  Healing, People, Tasks

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