Inspirational Quotes - Page 570

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.

I would give everything if I could only keep my family.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

Go, send, or disobey.

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it

He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.

When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.