Tasks 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.