Difficult Tasks Quotes - Page 2

• It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people... This is a people's task.

  Narendra Modi

  Years, People, Tasks

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• The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Execution, Overcoming

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• The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have been difficult,painful and even impossible. The man becomes independent and self-reliant; he will never be a coward,and, when real danger threatens,he is the one who is looked up to by others. The knowledge of one's strength entails a real mastery over oneself; it breeds energy and courage,helps one over the most difficult tasks of life, and procures contentment and true enjoyment of living.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Strength, Courage, Pain

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• To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beauty, Art, Tasks

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  Nikola Tesla

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Religious, Self

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• But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Thinking, History

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969”, p.588, Best Books on

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• Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

  Pope Pius XII

  Hate, Party, Passion

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• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  Religious, Identity, Islam

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• When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Order

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, May 30, 1877.

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• Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

  Sigmund Freud

  Attitude, Special, Dying

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• I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

  Mark Twain

  Say Anything, Tasks, Be Careful

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.537, Penguin

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• One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  "Jung and the Story of Time". Book by Laurens van der Post, 1975.

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• Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Sleep, Typewriters

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• If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Writing, Tasks, Revision

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• Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

  Jim Ramstad

  Country, Law, Faces

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• Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Disappointment, Moving

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• Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Love, Believe, Thinking

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• Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Running, Country, Party

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• We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.

  Dick Durbin

  Sacrifice, Men, Brave

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• My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Gathering, Tasks, Body

  "Leonardo DiCaprio at the UN: 'Climate change is not hysteria - it's a fact" by Leonardo DiCaprio, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Anger, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We were well aware that the end of the fighting would not automatically settle the problems arising out of the war. The establishment of peace after the fighting is over has always been a
  difficult task.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Tasks

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.296, New Word City

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• One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

  Andy Stanley

  Ideas, Tasks, Difficult

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