Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay."
Mind Your Own Business quotes
Mind Your Own Business
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Billie Holiday
Singer
"I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Those who own much have much to fear."
Robert Frost
Poet
"Good fences make good neighbors."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Philosopher, Educator
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy."
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"If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer."
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"Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business."
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"I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else."
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"There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business."
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"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."
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"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
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"He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet."
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"The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found"
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"Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'"
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"The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis."
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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."
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"One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men."
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"Generate so much loving energy that people want to just come and hang out with you. And when they show up, bill them!"
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"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
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"The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it."
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"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
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"People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man."
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