Task Accomplished Quotes

#1. Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start
with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best
leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will
say 'We have done this ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

#2. So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

William Ernest Henley

#3. Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task
such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping
I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

Isaac Asimov

#4. The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. The reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

Anne Fadiman

#6. I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Melissa Auf Der Maur

#7. When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

Sun Yat-sen

#8. I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

Julia Cameron

#9. I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Mark Linkous

#10. No one provokes me with impunity.

Mary, Queen Of Scots

#11. Instead of living in the dread or the joy of the future, may we have the intention to live in the Real of the now.

Maximus Freeman

#12. The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the purified vision of hearts that grow not cold.

Alexander Berkman

#13. Drugs made me feel more normal.

Carrie Fisher

#14. Don't hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you're writing, - Michael Connelly

Sue Ward Drake

#15. Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

#16. When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally.

Laozi

#17. We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

J. William Fulbright

#18. 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.

Arnold Bennett

#19. 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. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

#20. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Laozi

#21. most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Mohsin Hamid

#22. The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.

Alberto Villoldo

#23. We cannot count on strategic warning. We might get it, and we might be able to take useful preparatory actions that would be impossible without it. We certainly ought to plan to exploit such a possibility should it occur.

Anonymous

#24. Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B.F. Skinner

#25. By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

Annika Sorensen

#26. But the heart of Christianity is Good News. It comes not as a task for us to fulfill, a mission for us to accomplish, a game plan for us to follow with the help of life coaches, but as a report that someone else has already fulfilled, accomplished, followed, and achieved everything for us.

Michael Horton

#27. God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#28. But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished - behold! - all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile - and the return to an eternal rest.

Joseph Conrad

#29. Learn from the people
Plan with the people
Begin with what they have
Build on what they know
Of the best leaders
When the task is accomplished
The people will remark
We have done it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

#30. My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Harry Houdini

#31. You are nothing to me - nothing," said Troy, heartlessly. "A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage. I am not morally yours.

Thomas Hardy

#32. It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#33. Magic separates us from the world; may nothing separate us from each other.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time,

Amy Pascal

#35. My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#36. Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

William Osler

#37. The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue in U.S. society, whether domestic or foreign.

Noel Ignatiev