Hardest Job Quotes

• The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Work, Trying

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

  Bow Wow

  Daughter, Jobs, Two

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• Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Jobs, Community

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• Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

  Frank Bettger

  Jobs, Trying, World

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Way, Persons

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• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  Katey Sagal

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. August 17, 2009.

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  Gail Porter

  Jobs, Done, World

  "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

  Sandy Duncan

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Mean, Self

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.92, Penguin

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• The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Jobs, Actors, Scared

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• This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

  Ally Walker

  Mom, Jobs, Being A Mom

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. August 22, 2003.

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• One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

  Harold J. Warner

  Relationship, Jobs, Needs

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• My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.

  Tom Osborne

  Jobs, People, Nebraska

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• [Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

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• Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

  Dave Ramsey

  Jobs, Men, Fatherhood

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• My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

  Paula Abdul

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

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• Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Jobs, Acting, Digging

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• Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Parenting, Earth

  "Jennifer Aniston Backs Off of Her Single Parenthood Comments". People Magazine Interview, www.foxnews.com. August 13, 2010.

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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Jobs, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a mom, I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

  Hilary Rosen

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  "Hilary Rosen Apologizes To Ann Romney, Calls For End To 'Faux War' Against Moms" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, People, Encounters

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• It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Sea

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• I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

  Saul Bellow

  Jobs, Thinking, Understanding

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

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• Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Jobs, Children

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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