Occupation Quotes

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
Happiness Life Health Good Freedom Good Health Result Depend Our Pursuits Occupation Greatest Does Always Greatest Happiness Condition Just Which Placed Us Conscience Chance
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. Sinclair Lewis
Nature Winter Occupation Season
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson
Me Gardening Garden Culture Earth Delightful Occupation Comparable
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. Rumi
God You Envy Will Drawn Bestow Deliver Absorb Attention Removal Inward Occupation Beg May Which Your Away
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible. John Quincy Adams
Time You Bible Reading Scarcely Give Habit Fail Employment Read Equally Occupation Itself Reflecting Efficacy Than Susceptible Essential Being Which Useful
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell
You Listening Will More Observation Talk Make Occupation Than Gain Much Your
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken
Believe Follies Costly True Most Occupation Passionately Chief Mankind
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. Martha Gellhorn
Citizen Tough Own Citizenship Make Occupation Opinion His Which Informed Stand
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. William Osler
Success First Become Step Towards First Step Occupation Very Any Interested
The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be. Hayley Williams
Truth You Truth Is Yourself Matter Nothing Exactly Lifestyle Allowing Occupation Stop Want Really Your Who
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories. Michael Pollan
Best Better Farm Society Jobs City Rural Factories Devalued Students Supply Counties Occupation Leave Encouraged America Order Urban Workers Farming
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach. Peter Drucker
Teacher Man Tools Somehow Only Rely Developed Performance Major Know Make Occupation How Person Which Capable Average Average Person Teach Teaching Who Competence
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. Rutherford B. Hayes
Nature Soul Will Gone Human Nature Believe Soldier Say We Cannot Arbitration My Soul Remain Remains Until Occupation Human Cannot While Wars Cooperation
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians. Ariel Sharon
You Word Believe Like Terrible Terrible Thing Occupation Israel Hold Happening Cannot Thing Million Palestinians
Writing is a solitary occupation. Bernard Cornwell
Writing Solitary Occupation
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way. Dalai Lama
Way Carried Would Some Remained Had Occupation Without Role Chinese Ceremonial Even Orthodox
The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation. Eleanor Roosevelt
Family Mother Look Housekeeping Occupation Scientific Meals Should Planning Her
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. George Bernard Shaw
You Happy Miserable Secret About Bother Occupation Cure Being Leisure The Secret Of Whether
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. Henri Nouwen
Become Being Busy Busy Society Our Way Ways Ourselves Security Having Economic Main Economic Security Identifying Identity Occupation Without Very Endangered Just Being
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas
People World Cause Believe Aim Settlement Our Logic Rather Only Ruthless Countries Force Occupation Israel Efforts Legitimacy Want Regard Gain Apartheid Us Stand Activities Palestine
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Mahmoud Darwish
Oppression Elsewhere Several Born Only He Occupation Prisons However Times Person Die May Place Transformed Homeland Nightmare
I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. Michael Franti
Three Year Society Despair Gaza Strip Hopelessness See More Had Generations Occupation Because West West Bank Iraq Lot Iraqi Done Bank Wanted Found Palestine Palestinian
I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. Mohammed Omar
You Struggle Healing Battle Be Patient Blessed Nation Patient Our Ours Tell Muslim Wound Another Occupation Still Continue Forget American Did Same Which Land Brethren Your Palestine
No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families. Steven Pressfield
Own Think Our Ourselves Immune Rely Safe Terms Industry Occupation Begin Families Capacity Us Inner Resilience Strengths Adapt Need
Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse. William Godwin
Man Busy Recollection Must Would Spirit Generous Contemplation Sort Vulgar Occupation Always Inevitably Woe Repose Hold Intercourse Turmoil Engagements Gross Hard Who Whom Seasons Desire
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Life Try Will Job Whatever About Talking Course Occupation Influence Children Want Wanted Succeed Them Choose
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