Top 560 Properly Quotes

If people are worried, if they’re fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they’re not being treated properly or that they’re not being paid fairly, what you’re going to have is you’re going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
Daniel H. Pink
I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn’t raised properly.
Corey Feldman
During ‘Bullets Over Broadway,’ there was a part where we performed the ‘play within the play’ facing upstage. It was me, Karen Ziemba, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Marin Mazzie. I don’t think we got through it properly a single time.
Helene Yorke
I’ve got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
Sade Adu
Kasha is the hardy starch of a Slavic winter – buckwheat, in fact – but when cooked properly, it gets a nutty, deep-brown crust.
Bill Buford
Before I started training and eating properly, I was never bigger than a big size 10. I always liked my body, I was always body confident. But if you had given me the tools to change it, I absolutely would have. Why? Because it’s fun.
Chloe Madeley
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
Kate Beckinsale
I stayed with a family in the bush in Alaska and there were absolutely swarms of mosquitos. The crew were wearing full body nets but the family weren’t, so I decided that if I was going to do things properly I wouldn’t wear them either. I was eaten alive!
Ben Fogle
My father was a certain kind of man – I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father’s name.
Sidney Poitier
If I’m going to do something, I’ll do it properly or not at all.
Prue Leith
It costs a lot of money to make an album in a studio in New York with a producer and musicians. I have to pay a publicist every month. I have to pay for mastering, production, the manufacturing of the discs. Then, to promote an album properly, you have to spend a lot of money.
Juliana Hatfield
Why is it assumed that if I dance around wearing skimpy costumes, I cannot properly worship my Jesus? I am a born again Christian.
Rakhi Sawant
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar
To understand the future properly, it’s crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.
Annalee Newitz
Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In ‘Oopiri,’ it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
I’m not against profanity. It’s an important part of the language when used properly.
Robert Klein
I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that’s all one can do – and just be really loving around her. I’ve tried to give her confidence in who she is. I think she’s all right in the confidence department.
Geri Halliwell
I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
George Osborne
India is a big country. Here people are talented, they are motivated. If they train properly, I see no reason why India won’t produce world class cyclists in 10 years.
Eddy Merckx
Chemo is properly punishing, and it’s hard to do things at the usual level.
Grant Shapps
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I’d always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I’d had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.
Michael Hirst
I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.
Juan Manuel Fangio
If you ask anybody that knows me properly, they know that I give myself fully.
Ant Anstead
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I’ve ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don’t train properly, you’ll die.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
To edit someone from your life must be a properly evaluated decision. After all, the act of distancing yourself is difficult and, if executed improperly, could prove even more troublesome than if you were to have done nothing at all. The key is to create the distance gradually – a ‘fade out’ as I like to call it.
Dan Levy
Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan ear

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
Steve Forbes
Women should use pain medication only as directed and talk with their doctor about all drugs they’re taking, including over-the-counter medications. Store prescription drugs in a secure place and properly dispose of them as soon as treatment is over. And never share prescription drugs with anyone else.
Tom Frieden
To my irritation, you still can’t flick through an ebook properly; you can’t riffle the pages, you can’t look at more than one page at once.
Nick Harkaway
My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
Pramila Jayapal
The plan is to always start properly and execute a good race.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
If your user base engagement is fledgeling, a token may not be the panacea unless it is properly threaded into the product, and user behavior is accompanying the token utility.
William Mougayar
All I can do is work hard, prepare the players properly, give them everything I’ve got and they give me everything they’ve got.
Sean Dyche
I’m not particularly into people giving me credit. It’s not something I think about. It’s not important to me. The only thing that’s important is if I’m doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.
Jordan Henderson
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
Elena Kagan
If you are not an accredited investor, you only have one option: to buy and hold bitcoin on your own. The process of acquiring bitcoin is risky and requires a lot of due diligence to navigate the landscape properly.
Perianne Boring
We shouldn’t waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state’s structure.
Ahmet Necdet Sezner
What happens to our economy and all our wonderful innovation if people are not properly incentivized and rewarded?
Trish Regan
Fueling our bodies properly can lift our moods immensely on any winter day!
Natalya Neidhart
I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.
Lando Norris
I really rely on knowing how to apply make-up properly, rather than slapping it on and hoping for the best.
Emma Willis
Without the confidence to know our democracy is functioning properly, we risk more disillusionment, more cynicism, and even more public apathy toward the entire system.
Alan K. Simpson
Mel Gibson taught me to run properly. You’ve got to pump your arms and move your feet faster, or you just don’t look cool.
Glen Powell
They’re really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.
Joe Jackson
There was a time when I was not able to speak properly because of my medical condition. But I managed to fight against all those odds.
Sangram Singh
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
Fred F. Fielding
There’s a part of me that wants to let all the different moments of ‘Wild World’ to have their moment and be released properly.
Dan Smith
Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can’t survive here more than minutes if you’re not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.
Jon Krakauer
You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that’s bigger than me.
Lili Taylor
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you’ve got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.
Joseph Mawle
I make time to exercise. It’s not being indulgent. I think it’s got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There’s no doubt about that.
Ginni Rometty
Uninsured care happens in this country, and here’s the problem. It’s not properly accounted for. The people who pay for uninsured care at the moment are the hospitals and the doctors and all of the medical providers.
John Fleming
This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.
Jerry Costello
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What a lot of people don’t realise is that damage to hair starts from washing your hair in a rush and not taking all the product out such as leave-in conditioners. So I always make sure that I cleanse my hair properly and get the shampoo and conditioner completely out.
Genelia D’Souza