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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. -- Eugene V. Debs
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. -- Helen Keller
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. -- David Lloyd George
Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us. -- George W. Bush
It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures. -- M. Scott Peck
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. -- Andre Gide
Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. -- Harry S. Truman
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. -- Albert Einstein
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
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. -- Arthur Erickson
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
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. -- Baltasar Gracian
We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us. -- Kate DiCamillo
One of the most important tasks is to broaden the energy supply ... Energy determines today international security and social as well as economic development in many respects. In reality the wellbeing of millions of people is directly dependent in energy security. -- Vladimir Putin
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Your task, O preacher, is to make sure that you are faithful to the text, that you are faithful to the proclamation of that gospel, that you are faithful to set forth the whole counsel of God, and then step back and let it happen. -- R. C. Sproul
The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why. -- Gary Zukav
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush. -- Wilhelm II
Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns. -- Idries Shah
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. -- Isaac Watts
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. -- Victor Hugo
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. -- Phillips Brooks
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. -- Abba Eban
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. -- David Deutsch
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. -- James A. Baldwin
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal. -- Henri Nouwen
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. -- B. F. Skinner
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. -- Harvey Mackay
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. -- Pierre Curie
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' -- Allison Pearson
When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone. -- Simon Sinek
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. -- Michael Porter
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks. -- Evgeny Morozov
I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. -- John Ortberg
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. -- Maria Montessori
I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. -- James Surowiecki
Hard tasks need hard ways. -- Frank Herbert
Pray for powers equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks. -- Charles Bukowski
Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible. -- Chanakya
Love gives us the strength to perform impossible tasks. -- Paulo Coelho
Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. -- James Surowiecki
Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs. -- Sun Tzu
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. -- Louisa May Alcott
Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
God changes His time because His goals and tasks change. -- Sunday Adelaja
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you. -- Dale Carnegie
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. -- Viktor E. Frankl
God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks. -- Todd Stocker
One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. -- Gustav Heinemann
I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me. -- Garry Kasparov
For it is often the hardest tasks that build the most character. -- Jody Hedlund
Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks. -- Holly Black
Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now. -- Pat Croce
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Courage is the ability to execute tasks and assignments without fear or intimidation. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. -- Geoff Mulgan
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks. -- Dan Brown
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks. -- Scott D. Anthony
When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. -- Craig Groeschel
Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience. -- Melvil Dewey
Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks. -- William Shakespeare
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. -- Aaron Swartz
In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks. -- Viacheslav Platonov
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. -- John Foster Dulles
I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks. -- Steffi Graf
I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination. -- Jeet Banerjee
When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value. -- Seth Godin
One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas. -- Andy Stanley
Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small. -- Laozi
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world. -- Og Mandino
And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. -- William Wordsworth
To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. -- Theophile Gautier
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Approach difficult tasks with a positive attitude - you'll inspire others and feel better about what's ahead -- Denise Austin
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve. -- Bill Gates
Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it. -- Brian Tracy
Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Deciding which ideas to save and which ideas to discard is one of society's most important tasks. -- Timothy Noah
The key to managing fear and life's tasks is to take the time daily to get organized. -- Jude Bijou
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. -- William Zinsser
If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer. -- Louis van Gaal
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return. -- Bayard Taylor
The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life. -- Henry Rollins
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
...making the world safe for diversity, is one of the greatest tasks we face in the global era.... -- Os Guinness
One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else. -- Jeffrey Archer
Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more. -- Robert Breault
A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself. -- Brenda Johnson Padgitt
I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks. -- Darren Johnson
One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. -- Oscar Micheaux
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing. -- Sebastian Junger
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl. -- Guru Nanak
One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution. -- Marsha Blackburn
Teaching for creativity involves teaching creatively. There are three related tasks in teaching for creativity: encouraging, identifying and fostering. -- Ken Robinson
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. -- Otto Weininger
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape -- Loren Eiseley
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. -- William Godwin
Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. -- Michelle Bachelet
It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps. -- John Arlott
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community. -- Norman Jewison
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape. -- Loren Eiseley
Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks. -- Lloyd DeMause
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks. -- Georges St-Pierre
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. -- Michelle Bachelet
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. -- Albert Camus
The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. -- John Vianney

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