Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Grandparents

• My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • Older
  • Brothers

• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Responsibility

• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • People
  • Love
  • Comedy

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Year

• Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Technology
  • Ideas

• I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Business
  • Age
  • College

• Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Mother
  • Black

• If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Body
  • Strength

• You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.

  

  Edith Widder
  • World
  • Job
  • Water

• I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Possible
  • Eat
  • Wear

• Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Good
  • English
  • Educated

• Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Art
  • Man

• Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Friends

• If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Book
  • Perfect

• The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Women
  • War
  • Mask

• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Technological progress - and it is a pity more do not appreciate it - is the one sound approach to increased employment and higher wages. There is no other way. Irrespective of what is being said to the contrary, new industries can be created, present industries can be expanded, unemployment can be eliminated in a practical way

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Present
  • Progress

• A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

  

  Maureen Dowd
  • Lasts
  • Source
  • Betray

• Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield