Task

Famous quotes containing the word task:

“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we’re barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)