“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.”

“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation, and encourages perseverance. In so doing, it transforms great talent into exceptional accomplishment.”

Gary Hamel (1954) American management expert

“Ideological education is the key link to be grasped in uniting the whole Party for great political struggles. Unless this is done, the Party cannot accomplish any of its political tasks.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“For if medicine is really to accomplish its great task, it must intervene in political and social life. It must point out the hindrances that impede the normal social functioning of vital processes, and effect their removal.”

Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician

“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 (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

“The time has come for Liberalism to resume the leadership of progress—to lead away the masses from the chimeras of Karl Marx and the nightmares of Lenin, and to carry on the great task to which Gladstone and Bright devoted their noble lives.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude