“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.”
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American author and political activist 1880–1968Related quotes

Gary Hamel quoted in: Richard L. Daft (2014), The Leadership Experience, p. 409

On Coalition Government (1945)

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

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

1849 (quoted in Pathologies of Power, by Paul Farmer, page 323).


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

Later life
Source: Speech in Queen's Hall, Langham Place (14 October 1924) opening the Liberal Party's election campaign, quoted in The Times (15 October 1924), p. 10

“There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.”
Bk. XI, l. 393.
The Prelude (1799-1805)