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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#character #child #comes #compare #developing

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#ever #extremely #job #life #making

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #bottom #bottom line #clear #crystal

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. ↗

— Noel Coward

#i #i love #just #long #love

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ↗

— Noel Coward

#astrology #believe #blame #failures #i

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#based #being #correctness #critical #everything

I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#couple #day #gym #haven #hundred