Asks Quotes

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.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

They ask me how Im doing. I say better than I deserve

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

Ask 'why' five times about every matter.

Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.