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Quotes On Wisdom & Life
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Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time totell you how busy they are?
-Bob TalbertEverything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.-Jean-Louis Etienne
The impossible is often the untried.
-Jim GoodwinIf a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?-Sydney J. Harris
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
-Sydney SmithCourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something elseis more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon
It is not possible for anything to be impossible-Benny Hinn
The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.-John RooneyA candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it foundout by accident.-Charles Lamb
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.-Anonymous
The truth is not always dressed for the evening.-Margaret Lewerth
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.-Josh Billings
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.-Peter F. Drucker
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The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.-Robert Orben
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.-Leanna L. Bartram
They say TV really is still in its infancy, which helps to explain why you haveto get up so often to change it.-Linda Erdman
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.-Abraham Lincoln
There are more self-marred people in the world than there are self-made.-Arnold H. Glasow
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.-James D. Miles
If you truly want to understand something, try to change it.-Kurt Lewin
To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.-Wesleyan Methodist
A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake withoutthe flour and milk; he lacks theessential ingredients...-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admiresomeone who dislikes us.-Sydney J. Harris
People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.-Paul Palmer
You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down onhim.-Bits & Pieces
Never trust a person who says he wants to give you a piece of his mind, he probably hasnt got any left.
A habit is something you can do without thinking-which is why most of us have somany of them.-Frank A. Clark
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth withoutdestroying his roots.-Frank A. Clark
You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.-Dagobert D. Runes
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
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-Mignon McLaughlin
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-Mahatma Ghandi
The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.-Billy Graham
He became what we are that He might make us what He is.-Athanasius (speaking of Jesus of Nazareth)
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.-J.M. Power
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.-Edgar J. Mohn
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Anonymous
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.-Eleanor Roosevelt
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.-California Tribune
Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, Ialways noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.-Mark Twain
What single ability do we all have? The ability to change.-Leonard Andrews
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not
with the wind.-John Neal
Provision always follows vision.
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.-Mark Twain
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.-Dan Rather
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.-Jan McKeithen
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not standbeing laughed at.-Author unknown
Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan.-Graffitti
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When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.-Reverend Charles Allen
Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going.-Chinese Proverb
An argument is the longest distance between two points of view.-Dan Bennett
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.-Joseph Hunter
Half-truths are like half a brick -they can be thrown farther.-Hyman von Rickover
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.-Pablo Picasso
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.-Eva Young
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.-Reader's Digest
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.-Edgar J. Mohn
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.-Dean Acheson
The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you."-Klare Provine
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.-Anonymous
One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness-it is usually returned.-Cort R. Flint
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.-William G. McAdoo
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-Will Rogers
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.-Geena Davis
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.-George Seaton
A wise man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.-Unknown
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Two men please God: who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; whoseeks Him with all hisheart because he knows Him not.-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.-Robert Leighton
Patience is the companion of wisdom.-St. Augustine
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love bylove.-Thomas Szasz
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps-we must step up the stairs.-Vance Havner
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?-R.C. Sproul
Most people do not realize Opportunity because it is usually disguised as hard work..
The two words "information" and "communication" are often used interchangeably,but they signify quitedifferent things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.-Sydney J. Harris
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.-James Anthony Froude
Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it.
-Dell Crossword Puzzles
Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.-Cardinal John Henry Newman
Love at first sight is no miracle. When two people have been looking at each other for years that's a miracle.
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.-Doug Larson
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
-Peter F. Drucker
Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow.-Swedish Proverb
Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired.-Jules Renard
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the
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faith of an opinion.-A. Robert Turgot
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. Whenwe wish to go to a place, wedo not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.-Augustus William and Julius Charles Hare
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.-Jonathan Edwards
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.-C.S. Lewis
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.-Edith Sitwell
A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband.-Anonymous
Opinions are flexible prejudices.-Gerald Horton Bath
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes tosit down and listen.-Quotations of Courage & Vision
Truth hurts, not the searching after; the running from!-John Eyberg
After all is said and done, more has usually been said than done.-Michael W. Hamrick
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most valuable talent is that of never using two words when one will do.-Thomas Jefferson
We are tomorrow's past.-Mary Webb
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.-Richard Braunstein
To have more, desire less.-Table Talk
Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guiltabout things they should feel guilty about.-Sydney J. Harris
A ship in harbor is safe -but that is not what ships are for.-John A. Shedd
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we believe w
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ithout doubt in ourhearts that what we have said and petitioned for has been heard by God and granted as we asked .
Mark 11:22-24
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thouremoved, and be thou castinto the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come topass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and yeshall have them.
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them thepresent.-Kathleen Norris
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We e
rr because this is morecomfortable.-Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Entrance into heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.-Benjamin Whichcote
A dear old Quaker lady, distinguished for her youthful appearance, was asked what she used to preserve herappearance. She replied sweetly, 'I use for the lips, truth; for the voice, prayer; for the eyes, compassion; for
the hand, charity; for the figure, uprightness; and for the heart, love.-Jerry Fleishman
One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.-John Stuart Mill
The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which Godis going, and going thatway too.-Henry Ward Beecher
A year of self-surrender will bring larger blessings than fourscore year of selfishness.
-Anonymous
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.-Baltasor Gracian y Morales
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in itsfull bloom is heaven.-Eleanor Louisa Hervey
Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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-Elbert Hubbard
There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.-Sydney J. Harris
Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.-Marilyn vos Savant
Conscience is condensed character.-Anonymous
The Lord is my shepherd, that's all I want.-Small child misquoting the Bible's 23rd Psalm
Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.-Unknown
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisib
le to the eye.-The Little Prince
We do not remember days; we remember moments.-Cesare Pavese
A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.-Unknown
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.-La Rochefoucald
What governs men is the fear of truth.-Henri Frederic Amiel
Churches will take longer to achieve integration because they are undertaking amuch greateraccomplishment. Worshiping together is a more personal thing than riding trainsor attending moviestogether. Tolerance is not enough; it must be real brotherhood or nothing.
-Frank T. Wilson
The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.-Sir Winston Churchill
Why is the Atheist's main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and never Buddha, Confucius, or Mohammed?Why is the aspiring athlete's target always the true champion and never the also
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-rans?-Anonymous
If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.-Benjamin Franklin
Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.-Joseph Addison
The word "Angel" simply means "messenger." If angels are messengers, then someone, somewhere must besending a message.-Dan Schaeffer
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merelyuttered to please, or what isworse, to avoid trouble.-Mohandis K. Gandhi
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.-John Steinbeck
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Anonymous
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.-Thomas Carlyle
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all thetime. We are in it now.-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.-Sydney J. Harris
Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense notmistake it, even when
clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hideits hypocrisy, for slavery doesnot lose its infamy, however noble the master.-Baltasar Gracian y Morales
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of the Bible.-Woodrow Wilson
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who speaks positive convictions is worth a regiment of men who are always proclaiming theirdoubts and suspicions.-Anonymous
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from thecliffs of despair.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.-Confucius
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.-Erica Jong
The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.-Andrew Dunbar
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.-Julius & Augustus Hare
An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to
make a living but doesn'tteach them how to make a life.-Author unknown
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a doorand not open it?-Robert D. Ballard
They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.-Cicero
Fame is a cancer and ego: its seed.-Toad the Wet Sprocket
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.-Erich Fromm
Good has two meanings: it means both that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.-Aristotle
"I can forgive but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive."
-Henry Ward Beecher
No man will learn anything at all, unless he first will learn humility.-Owen Merideth
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.-Cicero
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Prosperity is not without many
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to befound.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul.The evil effect on himself is certain.-Robert Southey
God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.-Izaak Walton
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "Allright then, have it your way."-C.S. Lewis
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.-Al Bernstein
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.-Thomas F. Jones, Jr.
The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief.-Leslie Weatherfield
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.-Aeschylus
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce ofaccustomed pleasure.-Reader's Digest
There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and t
he true where a man is freeto do what he ought.-Charles Kingsley
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives."-Abba Eban
Just remember-when you think all is lost, the future remains.-Bob Goddard
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All men are born equal but the tough job is to outgrow it.-Don Leary
If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.-Mother Teresa
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, andwhere there is nocontinuity there is no growth.-C.S. Lewis
As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!!-Henry David Thoreau
Fate leads the willing, and drags along those who hang back.-Seneca
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.-Will Rogers
Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.-Nashville Banner
A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.-Edie Cantor
Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is contentto hear. The master thinks itgood doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for thelaity.-John Seldon
The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.-Anonymous
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; butmoderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine
The truth will ouch.-Arnold H. Glasow
Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God.-Anonymous
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
-Karl Reiland
Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work.-Changing Times
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us witha Godlike compassion.-Sydney J. Harris
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.-Hermann Hesse
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking backto the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.-C.S. Lewis
Little things console us because little things afflict us.-Blaise Pascal
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.-Joseph Francois Eduard Desmahis
I want to look at life in the available light.-Unknown
Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things.-Buster Rothman
Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to sacrificeto become what you would like to be.
-Unknown
Gratitude is the heart's memory.-Anonymous
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.-Goethe
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is not a heart that but has its moments of longing, yearning for something
better.-Henry Ward Beecher
If this age is remembered for anything, it will perhaps be for the speed with which we embrace things and letthem go.-David Konigsberg
A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent-William Blake
It is never a question with any of us of faith or no faith; the question is always in what or whom do we put ourfaith.-Anonymous
The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world.-Thomas Jefferson
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The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.-Patricia Clafford
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and evenour very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life-Albert Einstein
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.-Leo Rosten
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.-William Arthur Ward
Crowding a life does not always enrich it.
-Unknown
Experience is a hard teacher, it tests first and teaches afterward.-Unknown
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life hasillustrated it.-John Keats
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.-Plato
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.-Thomas Fuller
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait andwill not try-A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.-Pooh (A.A. Milne)
He who forgives ends a quarrel.-African Proverb
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.-Abigail Van Buren
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Do not pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray forpowers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be no miracle, butYOU will be a miracle.-Phillips Brooks
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.-Sir Wilfred Grenfell
The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you.-Unknown
Some people treat God like they do a lawyer; they go to Him only when they are in trouble.-Anonymous
"How do you know so much about everything?" was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answerwas "By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which Iwas ignorant."-John Abbott
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.-Thomas Carlyle
Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice.-Life Today
Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction.-George L. Griggs
If there were no hell, no one would worry about heaven.-Welsh Proverb
Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of yourown.-Andrew V. Mason, M.D.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.-Arnold H. Glasow
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Reflect upon your present blessings -of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes, of whichall men have some.-Charles Dickens
What I kept, I lost; What I spent, I had; What I gave, I have.-Persian Proverb
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of fear.-Mark Twain
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something.-Wilson Mizner
Just remember-when you think all is lost, the future remains.-Bob Goddard
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit fromthe unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.-Ralph Marston
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.-Sydney J. Harris
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solutio
n that is not.-Neil Postman
Most men forget God all day and ask Him to remember them at night.-Anonymous
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.-Sir Winston Churchill
I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.-Mary Gardiner Brainard
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.-Marilyn Vos Savant
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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-Lou Holtz
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the nextbest thing is the wrong thing,and the worst thing you can do is nothing.-Theodore Roosevelt
Half-truths are like half a brick -they can be thrown farther.-Hyman von Rickover
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.-Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Justice is truth in action.-Joseph Joubert
We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.-Paul E. Scherer
If ever I reach heaven, I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet som
e I had not thought to see there;second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonderof all, to find myself there.-John Newton
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake somethingso great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.-Phillips Brooks
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that'sthe time to hold your tongue.
-Alice Duer Miller
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.-Chinese Proverb
If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one.-Mother Teresa
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.-G.K. Chesterton
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind... Fro
m this moment onward you can bean entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with anoutstretched hand, uplifted andpositive in every thought and deed.-Eileen Caddy
The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.-Patricia Clafford
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The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.-Jewish Proverb
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.-Cullen Hightower
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as Godsees us.-Tryon Edwards
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.-Thomas Carlyle
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.-Reader's Digest
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't makeany big ones.
-Andrew A. Rooney
To the victor belong the responsibilities.-Al Bernstein
The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as thata hundred years away.Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we doanything, in both God is doing everything.-C.S. Lewis
A closed mouth gathers no foot.-Bob Cooke
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the sameperson.-Mignon McLaughlin
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but itwon't taste good. -Joe
Paterno
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, it is because of Gods Grace.
Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them.-The Defender
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-Will Rogers
Never try to make anyone like yourself, you know, and God knows, that one of youis enough.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication.-Bob Talbert
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.-Jean Sibelius
If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday,you're wiser today.-Michigan Presbyterian Church
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.-Abigail Adams
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.-Leanna L. Bartram
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.-
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
-David Rockefeller
Blessed is the man who has no worry, fear or anxiety in the daytime and at nightbut whose trust is in theLORD as His Light, strength, refuge and shield . (Ps91)
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.-Epictetus
If you have made mistakes... there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start anymoment you chose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but
the staying down.-Mary Pickford
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.-Charles C. Colton
There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deservehanging ten times in his life.
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-Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Pride is tasteless, colorless, and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.-August B. Black
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.-Omar Bradley
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine itand see whether it is somethingthat could better be changed in ourselves.-C.G. Jung
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us reallyhappy is something to be enthusiastic about.-Charles Kingsley
Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.-Will Henry
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a greatand rare attainment.-Bernard of Clairvaux
Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.-Anonymous
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerantwith the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.-Bob Goddard
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set ofattitudes.-Hugh Downs
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow agrain of corn if he hopednot it would grow up and become seed... Or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reapbenefit thereby.-Martin Luther
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.-Francis Bacon
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to livefor any lower end!-David Brainerd
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
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-Katherine Anne Porter
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.-R.C. Sproul
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when Iam not feeling it. I believe in Godeven when He is silent.-Anonymous Jewish holocaust victim
Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's lettinggo.-Sylvia Robinson
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent toshare them.-Albert Camus
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.-Bill Maher
There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving.
-Albert Camus
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.-M.H. Alderson
Gratitude is from the same root word as grace-the boundless mercy of God. Thanksgiving is from the sameroot word as think, so to think is to thank.-Willis P. King
An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think ofanybody to thank for it.-Mary Ann Vincent.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.-Goethe
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.-Edward Keating
Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all.-Morris Mandel
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.-Henry Ford
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in theworld equals the Bible for that.-James McCosh
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.-John Steinbeck
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracynecessary.-Reinhold Niebuhr
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keepsyou together until you fall in again.-Judith Viorst
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; hesleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may-wealth or self, pleasure or renown.-Martin Luther
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can becorrected, but time is gone forever.-David B. Norris
People who invite trouble always complain when it accepts.-Lane Olinghouse
Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.-John Dryden
All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those whomove.-Benjamin Franklin
Silence is true wisdom's best reply to a fools argument.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.-Stephen Wright
Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with theingredients clearly labeled.-Helen Hudson
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for ahypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.-Billy Sunday
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Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and besad.-Christina Rossetti
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revengeand dares to forgive aninjury.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
To see what is right and not do it is want of courage.-Confucius
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-Bishop W.C. Magee
If your dreams turn to dust... vacuum.-Unknown
Love is not blind-it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.-Rabbi Julius Gordon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.-Sir Francis Bacon
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.-Unknown
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.-Seneca
People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.-William Rotsler
A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts; a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses.-Anonymous
It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.-Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we failto protest.-Elie Wiesel
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birdswhich fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them fromsettling.-John Churtom Collins
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.-Jan McKeithen
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It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question ofwho's going to start building with it.-Sloan Wilson
The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right-but she is moreoften left.-Baltimore Sun
Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when youlearn that everything is thefault of the younger generation.-Harold Coffin
The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.-Anonymous
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.-Marilyn vos Savant
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created theword "loneliness" to expressthe pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Tillich
No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finallygetting bewildered as to which may be the true.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
Too often we seek justice for just us.-James Thom
Power doesn't corrupt people. People corrupt power.-Unknown
What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness.-Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.-Margaret Thatcher
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil
we have made through life.-John Cunningham Geikie
Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. -MignonMcLaughlin
If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all. Jim
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Fiebig
I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not atthe same time truly virtuous.-Benjamin Franklin
I saw about a peck of counterfeit dollars once. Did I go to the window and throwaway all my good dollars?No! Yet you reject Christianity because there are hypocrites, or counterfeit Christians.-William E. Biederwolf
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will forceyou to lever yourself up.-Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopelessabout them.-Clare Boothe Luce
The only disability in life is a bad attitude.-Scott Hamilton
Courage is like love-it must have hope to nourish it.-Napoleon Bonaparte
To teach is to learn twice.-Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish, only if the folly of it escapes you.-Jim Fiebig
Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.-Claude McDonald
Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things.-Buster Rothman
Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it.-Daniel Wilson
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.-Ken S. Keyes
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be reallyhappy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
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-Albert Schweitzer
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.-Nikki Giovanni
The man who bows the lowest in the presence of God stands the straightest in thepresence of sin. -AuthorUnknown
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.-Charles Dickens
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.-Dean Stanley
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners.-Irish Proverb
The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in bothdirections.-Sydney J. Harris
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.-Albert Camus
Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.-Ovid
Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back.-Roger Allen
We bring the atoms of sin to the cross where they are smashed.-Anonymous
The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.-Susan Howatch
Dig the well before you are thirsty.-Chinese Proverb
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.-Samuel Johnson
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings-the humble man his blessings.-Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Insomuch as any one pushes you nearer to God, he or she is your friend.-Anonymous
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.-Geena Davis
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.-Chinese Proverb
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.-St. Augustine
He became what we are that He might make us what He is.-Athanasius (speaking of Jesus of Nazareth)
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. AbrahamLincoln
So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident myhope that they will prove useful citizens, and respectful members of society.-John Quincy Adams
Sometimes I think I understand everything... Then I regain consciousness.-Ashleigh Brilliant
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you areresiding on another planet with a different reality system.-Author Unknown
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.-Leroy Brownlow
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.-Robert Frost
The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.-Gene Hackman
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.-Jonathan Swift
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us th
at we are not altogetherworthless.-Eric Hoffer
You can't test courage cautiously.-Annie Dillard
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do. -JohnLeo
If the truth hurts most of us so badly that we don't want it told, it hurts evenmore grievously those who dare
tell it. It is a two-edged sword, often dangerous to the user.-Judge Ben Lindsey
Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. Anonymous
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness cando that.-Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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The happiest people are less getting and more giving and forgiving.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.-Erich Fromms
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinelyforgive an enemy-whether he knows it or not.-O.A. Battista
If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.-Dave Weinbaum
Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when theyare not; it helps them to keep trying.-Merry Browne
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.-William Shakespeare
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out
.-Art Linkletter
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to beachieved.-William Jennings Bryant
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.-Ben Hecht
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.-Hebbel
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell-wellthen, your everyday face willdo.-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody-it saves so much trouble.-Rudyard Kipling
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep he
arts to enjoy themunless we were meant to be immortal.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.-John C. Collins
A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.-Stephen King
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I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.-Jonathan Winters
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.-William Ellery Channing
Improvement begins with "I."-Arnold H. Glasow
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he said, with a twinkle in hiseye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat upand worried."-Dorothea Kent
Truth never damages a cause that is just.-Mohandas K. Gandhi
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels, it is a victory to him who believes.-Anonymous
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.-Al Bernstein
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.-William James
Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.-Franklin P. Jones
Never undertake anything for which you would not have the courage to ask the blessing of Heaven.-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You have to be careful about being too careful.-Beryl Pfizer
There never was found in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law or discipline which did sohighly exalt the public good as the Christian faith.
-Sir Francis Bacon
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.-Henry Becque
If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how.-Friedrich Nietzsche
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While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.-Evan H. Hopkins
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense,regardless of how it turns out.-Vaclav Havel
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.-Robert Louis Stevenson
The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent,the state can have noconscience.-Edward W. Grant
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to bemoral.
-Samuel P. Ginder
There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.-Lord Byron
We desire most what we ought not to have-Publilius Syrus
Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit.-John Seldon
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard
Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-itis a result.-Robert Green Ingersoll
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time,and will not suffer it to passaway in unnecessary pain.-Samuel Johnson
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty.-German Proverb
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.-Tom Wicker
There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.-Thomas Jefferson
The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self discipline.
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-Walter Kiechel III
Few wishes come true by themselves.-June Smith
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable withhimself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.-Sydney J. Harris
The cross is "I" crossed out. -Anonymous
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.-Abigail Adams
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.-Unknown
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.-Sydney Smith
When you are in deep water, it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut.-St. Louis Tribune
I saw a star, I reached for it, I missed. So I accepted the moon.-Scott Fortini
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