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“In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”

Ability Equal Tasks Congratulations

Author:Martin Van Buren

“I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.”

Feels Children Helping Tasks Educational

Author:Maria Montessori

“Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.”

People Today Culture Teach Teacher Teaching Tasks Educational Educated Rejection Creeds Dogma Expansion Selection Dogmatic Uneducated

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order....It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.”

“Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.”

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Author:Laozi

“To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.”

Accepting Acceptance Higher Standards Gains Tasks Peers Admirable Accepting Yourself Higher Standards

Author:Wes Fesler

“When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.”

Philosophy Literature Easy Middle Tasks Educational Easy Tasks

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“It is no easy task to be good.”

Philosophy Literature Easy Tasks Educational Be Good Good Education Easy Tasks

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.”

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Author:Oskar Schlemmer

“Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.”

“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”

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Author:Andy Grove

“Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. . . . Then as do I, say naught, but suffer and die.”

Heart Long Suffering Dies Silence Tasks Heavy

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.”

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Book:A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Source: A Nation's Homage: Life and Work of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

“Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.”

Source: Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945

“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”

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Book:Table talk, 1941-1944

Source: Table talk, 1941-1944

“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.”

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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

“The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.”

Ifs Persons Ideas Law Natural Rich Clear Mystery Succeed Ambition Tasks Operations Each Day Business Success Get Rich My Ambition

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.”

Earth Essentials Garden Tasks Metaphor Gardening

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.”

Mind Earth Careers Glory Garden Tasks Improvement Vain Delightful Conquest

Book:Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States

Source: Letters on Agriculture from His Excellency, George Washington, President of the United States, to Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S., and Sir John Sinclair, Bart., M.P.: With Statistical Tables and Remarks, by Thomas Jefferson, Richard Peters, and Other Gentlemen, on the Economy and Management of Farms in the United States

“Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.”

“Many changes have taken place but one change remains the same that is your Task & Duty . You are required to ensure the security of this country against all the odds .What does that means to you ? It means you should have to fight & fight to win , there is no roof for the losers . If you lose don't come back , you will have disgraced the country & the country won't accept you”

Ifs Should Mean Doe Country Fighting Winning Loses Accepting Taken Security Duty Tasks Should Have Army Remains Loser Odds Roof

Author:Sam Manekshaw

“The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.”

“During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.”

Ifs World Important Individual Peace Understanding Consciousness Violence Tasks Peaceful Relate Personal Life

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Imagine Tasks Imagine That

Author:Brian Tracy

“O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.”

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Book:Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons

Source: Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons

“In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.”

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Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.”

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Book:Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.”

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Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.”

Diversity Tasks Critical Biology Threatened Preservation Cultural Diversity

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.”

People Mean Lost Poverty Support Tomorrow Tasks Everyday Temporary Concealed Splendor Extravagance Neediness

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?”

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Author:Albert Claude

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable. It is our task, from generation to generation, to drain a small amount of additional land.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.”

Thinking Persons Done Motivation Risk Willing Commitment Tasks Dedicated

Author:Cesar Chavez

“The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.”

Next Religious Century Tasks

Author:Andre Malraux

“Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...”

Home Asks Father Dad Tasks Being A Father Being A Dad

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.”

People Way Artist Creativity Struggle Creative Tasks Be Creative

Book:My Quest for Beauty

Source: My Quest for Beauty

“I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.”

Lying Basketball Tasks Focused

Author:Kobe Bryant

“The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

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Book:The Unwritten Alliance

Source: The Unwritten Alliance

“What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.”

Suffering Buddhism Tasks Size

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Art I Can Self Joy Work Business Tasks

Book:The Kinship of Nature

Source: The Kinship of Nature

“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.”