My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.
Kevin HartWe cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert SchweitzerI think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Clint EastwoodI’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
Vivienne WestwoodWork as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin FranklinI 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.
Mr. TI 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.
Barack ObamaIt 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.
James BaldwinAt least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CummingsI don’t think I’ve met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles.
Clint EastwoodSee things from the boy’s point of view.
Robert Baden-PowellI 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.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Eleanor RooseveltWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA 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.
John F. KennedyIf 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.
Nelson MandelaIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil GibranI 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.
Albert SchweitzerI’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
Kamala HarrisI 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.
Alice WalkerYou have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.
Kamala HarrisThe leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
Abraham LincolnDo not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
ConfuciusThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauWe 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.
Pope FrancisI’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret ThatcherWe just cannot worry about ourselves.
Pope FrancisThere 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.
Barack ObamaPeople 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.
Kanye WestIf you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya AngelouThere 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.
Niccolo MachiavelliI 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.
Clint EastwoodThe only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe 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.
Michelle ObamaIf 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.
Robert FrostBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Henry FordWe have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy CarterI 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.
Narendra ModiI 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.
Joyce MeyerI’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.
AuroraWhen 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.
Kendrick LamarA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert HubbardWe 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.
Charlie ChaplinDon’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.
Joyce MeyerI 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.
Anthony HopkinsWe 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.
Richard M. NixonTransforming 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.
Robert GreeneWe 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
James BaldwinThe best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark TwainWhen 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.
Jane GoodallA tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauI’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.
Harper LeeTo give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma GandhiEvery 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.
Kurt CobainIt 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl JungI look after people.
Amy WinehouseWe 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.
Charles Spurgeon