Tasks Quotes

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Lord's Supper, Sanctuary

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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Order, Today

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• The history of God's people is not a record of God searching for courageous men and women who could handle the task, but God transforming the hearts of cowards and calling them to live courageous lives.

  Erwin McManus

  Heart, Men, People

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.89, Thomas Nelson

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• There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.

  Melody Beattie

  Honor, Desire, World

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• When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well...What is important is the whole journey by which we arrive at the mission the Lord entrusts to us...when the Lord gives a mission, He always has us enter into a process, a process of purification, a process of discernment, a process of obedience, a process of prayer.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Journey, Giving

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• Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand. . . . If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.

  Robert Hillyer

  Failure, Imperfect World, Hands

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• No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

  William Feather

  Humble, Individuality, Doe

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• We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

  Faith Baldwin

  Learning, Likes And Dislikes, Personality

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

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• Don't focus on the victory, focus on the task.

  Erik Spoelstra

  Focus, Victory

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• The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Perseverance, Work, Effort

  "Character: Pauline". "Polyeucte" by Pierre Corneille, act IV, scene v, 1642.

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• No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Determination, Motivation

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• Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Fate, Men, Hands

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• Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Mind, Noise, Firsts

  R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Perseverance, Persistence, Easy

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

  David Lloyd George

  Motivation, Procrastination, Character

  David Lloyd George (1918). “The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War”

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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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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• There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

  John Shaw Billings

  Jobs, Islands, People

  John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Next Week, Years

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds".

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