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Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task. -- Trip Lee
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. -- Anthony Trollope
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. -- William Feather
It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can. -- William Feather
Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever. -- John Updike
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. -- Victor Hugo
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. -- Victor Hugo
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. -- Oscar Niemeyer
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else. -- Anna Garlin Spencer
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. -- James Houston
Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice. -- Richard Paul Evans
There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States-every man, woman, and child-is in action, and will be privileged to remain in action throughout this war. That front is right here at home, in our daily lives, and in our daily tasks. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
And in that dismal restaurant, surrounded by the simple government clerks who sat there repairing the wear and tear of their humble daily tasks, my broad-shouldered messmate seemed to me strangely noble; beneath his rough hide I could discern the angel who had vanquished the dragon." -- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure. -- Joseph Pilates
Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives. -- Aaron Swartz
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
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks. -- Alan Alda
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
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread. -- Hannah More

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