Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Family
  • You
  • Church

• I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Live
  • Home

• Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Great
  • May
  • Job

• You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Work
  • Job
  • Relationship

• The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Job
  • Me

• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Job
  • Fantasy
  • Conservative

• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Country
  • Art
  • Job

• If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Work
  • Job
  • Film

• I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Time
  • Church
  • More

• I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Job
  • Arts
  • Martial Arts

• I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Love
  • Job
  • Parents

• The record company felt wisely that we should get something out before I left 'Hamilton' or around awards time, and that deadline was not easy.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Time

• In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Free

• Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• We need to secure the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Country
  • Law
  • Wall

• I always look at these superhero films, and I see people hurdling towards at a hundred miles per hour, and then they get up, shake their head, and charge back at a hundred miles per hour. Nobody seems to really get injured or hurt. I don't find any threat in that. There is no tension in that whatsoever.

  

  Martin Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Hurt

• We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Job
  • Church
  • Blessings