Sustaining Quotes

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle Obama

Love, Family, Mother

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo

Love, Beauty, Heart

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
Bruce Springsteen

Time, Long, Hard

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
David Bowie

Music, Power, Wanted

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Wislawa Szymborska

Life, Knowledge, Questions

I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.
Joan Jett

Food, Living, Thank

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
Neale Donald Walsch

Life, Truth, Spiritual

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Great, Power, Action

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

Great, Power, Character

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy

Today, Blessings, Big

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
Carre Otis

Women, Equality, Hard

Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.
Judi Dench

Good, Through, Friends

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

Hope, Poverty, While

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
Alan Cumming

Work, Character, Emotional

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
Vince McMahon

Far, Popularity

My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
John Hutton

Future, Past, Progress

I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.
Lucas Papademos

Growth, Labor, Sound

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.
Theodor Herzl

Give, Wish, Rather

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Jack Schwartz

War, Nation, Against

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne

Success, Friend, Actor

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.
Joe Lieberman

Future, Strong, Means

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
Alberto Fujimori

Democracy, Fact, Recovery

For women who have children, the economic difficulty of sustaining a life as an artist maybe makes it impossible. There's no maternity leave, there's no pension.
Elizabeth Price

Life, Women, Children

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
John Cho

Career, Difficult, Truly

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