Best Sweepers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.”

Money Humility Arrogance Bragging Humbleness Sweepers

“If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.”

Ifs Men Trade Lawyer Manage Dirty Quarrels Objections Chimneys Sweepers Dirty Work

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.”

Reality Jobs President Community Hours Achievement Organization Fundamentals Majority Workers Vices Eight Access Fulfillment Our Society Executives Vice President Sweepers

Author:Peter Drucker

“Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.”

Made Dies Atheism Positive Atheism Mediums Crossings Guinea Sweepers

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.”

Ifs States Three Class Greater Subjects Kings Citizens Honour Divides Foreigners Crossings Sweepers

Author:Adolf Hitler

“And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job.”

Ifs Moments Jobs Particular Almighty Good Job Sweepers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.”

Men Mind Voice Cry Every Man Oppression Infant Bans Thames Sweepers Innocence And Experience

Book:Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.”

Ifs Knows Want Streets Being The Best Be You Mayors Sweepers

Author:David Dinkins

“The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.”

Made I Can Dies Argument Suicide Mediums Demonstration Crossings Spiritualism Guinea Sweepers

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.”

Country Responsibility Roles Citizens Mindset Sole Cleaning Cleanliness Cleaning Up Sweepers Bharat

Author:Narendra Modi

“I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.”

Firsts Book Factories Toilets Sweepers

Author:Geoff Thompson

“Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.”

Should Conditions Ideals Equality Payment Sweepers Barristers

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“A legal broom's a moral chimney-sweeper, And that's the reason he himself's so dirty”

Reason Moral Dirty Chimneys Brooms Sweepers

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.”

Knows World Streets Poet Lows Theater Metaphor Singers Remarkable Farmers Rice Great Poet Bangladesh Highs And Lows Great Poetry Poetry And Music Sweepers

Author:Jean Houston

“Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!”

Streets Filmmaker Germany Mexico Sweepers

Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

Ifs Winning Stars Sun Failing Size Being The Best Sweepers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.”

Men Persons Law Risk Streets Wings Profit Desert Killers Bounty Trilogies Sweepers

Author:Sergio Leone

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust.”

Death Girl Golden Dust Lad Chimneys Death Poems Sweepers Heat Of The Sun

Author:William Shakespeare

“I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

Source: Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith

“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

Book Wish Envy Burned Deadly Sins Book Burning Seven Deadly Sins Sweepers Faustus Seven Sins Marlowe

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!”

Source: Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book

“He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'”

Should Wells Earth Jobs Heaven Streets Greatness Excellence Host Pauses Work Ethic Heaven And Earth Achieve Greatness Pausing Kaizen Street Life Sweepers Great Work Ethic

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.”

Journey Travel Wounds Heal Hotel Inspiring Travel Suitcases Battered Sweepers

Author:Tom Waits

“Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.”

Found Language College Intellect Boards Professors Demeaning Sweepers College Professors

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”

Inspirational Streets Kings Dance Last Words Grim Reaper Famous Last Words Gallows Death Row Final Words Grim Reaper Sweepers

Author:Robert Alton Harris

“Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”

Art Done Home Death Girl Sun Gone Dying Tasks Winter Rage Golden Dust Heat Wages Worldly Impermanence Furious Lad Chimneys Sweepers Heat Of The Sun

Author:William Shakespeare

“Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.”

Feels Eye Night Guy Certain Talking Streets Car Late Uncomfortable Homeless Skates Texting Late Night Sweepers

Author:Rodney Mullen

“A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.”

Men Behinds Greatness Clean Great Men Chips Sweepers

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

Ifs Life Fall Streets Marble Raphael Sweepers

Book:I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.”

India Arise Republic Peasants Grasping Cottages Huts Republic Day Sweepers Cobblers

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.”

Ifs Artist Streets Self Esteem Esteem Sweepers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.”

Night Blood Streets Travel Wounds Heal Flames Shirts Hotel Perfume Whiskey Keepers Suitcases Battered Sweepers Prima Donnas

Book:The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

“I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.”

I Can Games Fit Speed Sweepers

Author:Ruud Gullit

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