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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Isaac Watts

Life, Trust, Learning

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Great, Long, Small

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work, Long, Rather

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Work, Human

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.
Sydney J. Harris

Love, Hate, Wrong

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

Important, Seems, Essential

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo

Soul, Almost, Ill

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.
James A. Baldwin

Work, Men, Daily

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian

Confidence, May, Difficult

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

History, Same, Expect

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide

Hell, Again, Left

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

God, Men, Strength

One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
Donald Rumsfeld

Someone, Confused, Two

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Equal, Pray, Powers

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
Eugene V. Debs

Work, Difficult, Hardest

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
Marilyn vos Savant

Society, Individual, Needs

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
John Foster Dulles

Government, Violence, Against

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
Marilyn vos Savant

Work, Two, Once

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush

Truth, Islam, Between

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch

Nature, Technology, Between

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Hurt, Different, Through

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Phillips Brooks

Life, Great, Whole

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori

Life, Help, Act

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
John Foster Dulles

Peace, Men, War

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
James Dyson

Children, Parents, Challenge

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
John Boehner

Freedom, Job, Important

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.
Andrew Weil

Human, Die, Effort

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.
Jane Seymour

Time, Design, Down

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