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Quotes About Sustain

The great leaders learn to rely on God to sustain them when nothing of this world can. And this, too, is the price—and the privilege—of leadership. Oh
~ Mark Rutland
One finds oneself being defined by one's job. The job expiates us from sin; it excuses us our excesses and our lapses. That we are tired, or ill, or in extremis and yet persevere is all we have, sometimes, to sustain our image of ourselves.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Both beliefs take the temporary habits of an age of excess and treat them as necessities, and both of them box our collective imagination into a futile quest to sustain the unsustainable instead of looking at the real alternative to the extravagant use of fossil fuels.
~ John Michael Greer
From out of the community come the people and gifts necessary to initiate, support, help create, and sustain the understandings that are reached.
~ John Paul Lederach
these women and men were able to sustain work "outside of the employment context," to cobble together not only a better living but a more meaningful life.
~ Ellen Ruppel Shell
Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.
~ Elliot Perlman
An angel can long subsist on its own substance.
~ ELSA BARKER
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
~ Barack Obama
I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened. I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent.
~ George Saunders
So we have the dilemma put to us, What to do, when his power must continue two years longer and when the existence of our country may be endangered before he can be replaced by a man of sense. How hard, in order to save the country, to sustain a man who is incompetent. In "Lincoln Reconsidered," by David Herbert Donald, letter from George Bancroft to Francis Lieber.
~ George Saunders
Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.
~ Daniel Goleman
I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
~ Solomon Burke
Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.
~ Scott Simon
Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.
~ Tom Rath
You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative.
~ Marlena De Blasi
help people in a state of dependence sustain the value of existence.
~ Atul Gawande
We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.
~ Jim Loehr
We must continually abide in the vine, so that we can keep bearing lasting fruits
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
throughout the contemporary world, the more religious the group the higher its birth rate, and we see the power of religion to sustain community over time.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Trabaja no para cubrir tus gastos, sino para vivir.
~ Eric Butterworth
I felt a jealous anger rising within me, a desire for her to desire me, the only kind of desire, Alex had once told me during a fight, I was able to sustain.
~ Ben Lerner
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
I think that the consistency on being great and a top player, you know, it's always been the goal because it's not too many people that can sustain greatness for a long time.
~ Bobby Wagner