Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.
If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.
God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.
What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.
In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.
You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey
Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.
Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.
We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.
I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.