Task Quotes

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. (Erich Fromm)
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. View quote
Maria Montessori
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. View quote
Craig Raine
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. View quote
William James
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. View quote
Theodor Adorno
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes for he must invent twenty more to maintain that one. View quote
Alexander Pope
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. View quote
Henry James
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. (Donald Knuth)
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. View quote
Livy
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. View quote
Donella Meadows
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. View quote
Rumi
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. View quote
Denis Diderot
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. View quote
Victor Hugo
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Henry Kissinger)
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. View quote
Winston Churchill
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. View quote
Arthur Miller
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. View quote
Peter Drucker
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton