A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

I don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We just cannot worry about ourselves.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I look after people.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.