Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Tasks Quotes

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

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The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

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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.

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For, once begun, Your task is easy; half the work is done.

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I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

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Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

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Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

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Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism?

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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

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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.

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The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

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A cheap and easy cynicism rails at everything. The master of the art accomplishes the formidable task of discrimination.

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

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