Hardest Job Quotes - Page 2

• That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.

  Sam Abell

  Jobs, Years, Gone

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• I think new life is the most exciting thing and I absolutely have so much respect for my friends and family that have gone and done it because it seems like the hardest job in the world. So, who knows - maybe one day I might try it myself. But I completely salute anyone who does.

  Christine Bottomley

  Jobs, Thinking, Family And Friends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Jobs, Millionaire, Has Beens

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• In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Teacher, Jobs, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

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

  Dave Ramsey

  Jobs, Men, Fatherhood

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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