#devote

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#generation #happiness #human #human rights #inhabitants

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#every #further #go #hope #i

What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#fellow #his #holding #inherently #life

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

#absolutely #business #devoted #embarrassingly #large

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#devoted #effects #energy #government #mismanagement

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#abuse #also #attention #believe #best

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#banish #because #believe #devote #done

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#africa #always #been #believe #cause

Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#building #devote #end #five #hope