#ives

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. ↗

— Og Mandino

#art #benefactor #better #crown #does

My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#band #both #brooklyn #california #daughters

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#books #doubled #lives #pleasure #reading

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

#human #human condition #life #lives #mine

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bonds #buddies #conscious #conscious decision #decision

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#life #lives #living #make #worth

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#army #convinced #else #gets #gives

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#executives #get #good #never #off

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#loyalty #person #receives #who

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. ↗

— David McCallum

#duty #feel #governing #i #i feel