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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Sweeping.
Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
Life is your playground.
Fashion grand castles and sweeping boulevards,
defeat fire-breathing dragons,
leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies;
but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,
as the magnet finds the iron,
so it will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Today is life - the only life you are sure of.
Make the most of today. Get interested in something.
Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby.
Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you.
Live today with gusto.
- Dale Carnegie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Confession of errors is like a broom
which sweeps away the dirt
and leaves the surface brighter and clearer.
I feel stronger for confession.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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