Thursday 2 January 2014

Tasks - Quotes

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. - Dag Hammarskjold

An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. - Terence

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. - Sandra Day O'Connor

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. - Arthur Helps

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. - William James

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. - Og Mandino

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. - Isak Dinesen

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