It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

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.

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

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.