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“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.”

“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”

Ifs Way Firsts Persons Long Self Effort Impossible Development Demand Tasks Importance Strive Intensity Self Knowledge Self Development Seriousness Trifles Old Ways

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.”

Source: Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

Knows Done God Difficult Effort Grace Pure Tasks Anger Breasts Betrayed God's Grace Difficult Tasks

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.”

Believe May Real Spirit I Believe Effort Support Sacrifice Cost Deserve Tasks International Heavy Imperfect Nevertheless Indispensable Grandeur Apprenticeship Geneva

Author:Marie Curie

“There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.”

Men Self Character Young Effort Self Esteem Tasks Raises Accomplish Esteem Young Man Initiative Formation

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal”

“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.”

“It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.”

Ifs World Should Humans Looks Age Lying Effort Approach Tasks Work Out Checks Granted Reasoning Anticipation Millennium

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.”

Life Needs Giving Moments Effort Needed Essentials Flow Tasks Present Moment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You are not called to believe in your love to God, but in God's love to you! Do not argue, 'I cannot love God! I have striven to my uttermost to do so, but have failed in all my endeavors, until in despair I have abandoned the thought and relinquished the attempt.' Be it so- no effort of your own can strike a spark of love to God from your heart. Nor does God demand the task at your hands. All that He requires of you is faith in His love, as embodied and expressed in Jesus Christ to poor sinners.”

Believe Heart Doe Hands Jesus Christ Poor Effort Demand Despair Jesus Christ Tasks Strikes Arguing God Love Sinner Endeavor Sparks Abandoned Believe In You His Love God's Love

Author:Octavius Winslow

“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

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”

Ifs World Way Needs Found Challenges Answers Poor Effort Business Politician Approach Conscious Tasks Vote Profit Finished Changing The World

Author:Bill Gates

“"If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."”

Ifs Men Art Decision Effort Company Successful Doubt Tears Color He Man Hero Band Paper Tasks Sticks Raised Loyalty Flying Ships Planes One Time Loyal Founders Perplexed

Author:Thomas Watson

“We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.”

Thinking World Age Effort Struggle Intellectual Tasks Curiosity Worthy Myth Tales Sufficient Fairy Iron Fairy Tale Convincing Infatuated

Author:Sam Harris

“Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds and tasks of service and sacrifice that constitute the giving or losing of one's life for others and for the Lord. They include gaining a knowledge of our Father in Heaven and of the gospel. They also include bringing others into the faith and fellowship of his kingdom. These things do not usually receive the attention or the adulation of the world.... .”

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.”

Ifs Men Giving Persons Important Life Is Effort Moral Judging Products Personality Birth Degrees Tasks Moral Failure

Author:Erich Fromm

“When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, the application of more effort has no effect on the schedule. The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”

Children Matter Effort Effects Months Tasks Nine Application Schedules Constraints Nine Months

Author:Fred Brooks

“My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.”

Years Next Party Effort Leader Members Labor Tasks Election Former Ministers Prime Prime Minister Parliament Australian Julia

Author:Kevin Rudd

“Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.”

People States Today Faces Suffering Fighting Evil Common Numbers Effort Millions Activity Tasks Terrorism Criminals Joining

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in general and ISIS in particular. It concerns Iran as well, it concerns Saudi Arabia (although the two countries do not get along very well, ISIS threatens both of them), it concerns Jordan, it concerns Turkey (in spite of certain problems regarding the Kurdish issue), and, in my opinion, everybody is interested in resolving the situation. Our task is to join these efforts to fight against a common enemy.”

“Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.”

Country Effort Impossible Achieve Victory Tasks Socialism Definite Combined Effort

Author:Leon Trotsky

“If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.”

Ifs Thinking Important Book Happens Lost Effort Habit Tasks

Author:Chinua Achebe

“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.”

Men Made Turns Work Effort Fire Labor Tasks Enthusiasm Pleasant Embers Enthusiasm For Life Daily Work

Author:James A. Baldwin

“I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.”

Mean Effort Tasks Lazy

Author:Thomas Lynch

“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.”

Way Common Effort Tasks Excellence Uncommon

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.”

Ifs Want Needs Running Jobs Effort Ocean Rain Tasks Clean Intention Very Good Worthy Accomplish Forests Serenity Good Job Dolphins Best Intentions

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“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?”

Men World Life Science Social Imagination Effort Imagine Information Hero Behavior Tasks Absurd Cells Heroic Imagine That Other Worlds Social Behavior Amoeba

Author:Albert Claude

“Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.”

Action Remember Energy Difficult Effort Tasks Constant Application Within You Explosives Difficult Tasks

Author:Og Mandino

“Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.”

Would Be Science Energy Numbers Effort Tasks Accounts Sacred Cows Quantity Large Numbers Sacred Cows

Author:John W. Campbell

“I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?”

“Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.”

Has Beens Remember Effort Sacrifice Air Sea Tasks Endure Vain Preserves Shore Heritage Promoting

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The greater the effort, the greater the glory.”

Work Effort Greater Hard Work Wise Words Glory Tasks Perseverance Motivational Work Hard Work Pays Off

Author:Pierre Corneille

“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”

Way Effort Meditation Tasks

Author:Gautama Buddha