Best difficulty & tasks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.”

Self Benefits Tasks Importance Difficulty Buddhist Engaged Poison Encounters Inferiors Self-importance Succumbing

Author:Shantideva

“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.”

Easy Danger Please Benefits Tasks Difficulty Vulgar

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.”

Has Beens Difficult Serious Tasks Difficulty

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”

Heart Life Is Spirit Order Fighting Evil Difficult Progress Plans Battle Protect Tasks Direct Difficulty Good Things Rewards Strive Righteous Cheerful Braces Difficult Tasks

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.”

People Way Want Easier Tasks Difficulty

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

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

Difficult Virtue Inspire Tasks Difficulty Obedience Difficult Tasks Supple

Author:John Vianney

“It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.”

Book Levels Tasks Difficulty Precedent

Author:Arnold Friberg

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.”

“The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.”

Life May Important Hours Effort Sacrifice Demand Tasks Difficulty Calm Extremes Endless Realization Budgets Arranging

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.”

Whole Facts Lying Values History Mass Tasks Gold Difficulty Mere Separation Abstract Particles Latent Dross

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.”

“To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.”

Self Faces Struggle Progress Greatness Eternal Tasks Difficulty Salvation Endure Ongoing Persevere Commonplace Life Struggle True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.”

Ifs Firsts Problem Couple Tasks Difficulty Solve Breakfast

Author:Julian Barnes

“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.”

Made Easy Interest Situation Seeing Mankind Easier Despair Tasks Difficulty Moved Genuine Accomplished Embarrassing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.”

Source: Magister Ludi

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

Thinking Littles Ends Spiritual Spirituality Amount Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Sufficient Accomplished Elbows

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”

Wells Kind Two Jobs Fighting Mass Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Army Defeat Productions Labour Fourth Warfare Routes Imperialism

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to recognize the ethics that knows no bounds. But on the other hand, those who believe in love for all creation must realize clearly the difficulties involved in the problem of a boundless ethic and must be resolved not to veil from humankind the conflicts which this ethic will involve us, but allow us really to experience them. To think out in every implication the ethic of love for all creation this is the difficult task which confronts our age.”

“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”

“Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.”

World Jobs Suffering Answers Compassion Society Tasks Difficulty Ancient This Day Immense Continuing

Author:Hugh Prather

“That no generally applicable law of the formulation and development of hybrids has yet been successfully formulated can hardly astonish anyone who is acquainted with the extent of the task and who can appreciate the difficulties with which experiments of this kind have to contend.”

Kind Success Law Science Development Appreciate Tasks Difficulty Experiments Hybrid

Author:Gregor Mendel

“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures”

Trying Stories Artist Impossible Tasks Difficulty

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.”

Ifs Thinking Want Kind Facts Too Much Progress Source Tasks Overcoming Difficulty Remains Disappointment Drawing Working It Faithfulness Disturbed Stunned Miners

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.”

Becoming Tasks Difficulty Increase Delicate Becoming More

Author:Jean Moulin

“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Should Hard Difficult Can Do Education Stupid Masters Fool Tasks Difficulty Mathematics Fellows Math Tricks Surprising Considering Tedious Being Myself

Book:Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

Source: Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus

“The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.”

Tasks Difficulty Unions Agency Soviet Soviet Union Espionage Conducting

Author:Aldrich Ames

“We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.”

Mind Humans Jobs Language Approach Tasks Difficulty Sticks Appreciation Humble Limitation Programming Human Mind Modest Elegant Programmers Programming Languages

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

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