Inspirational Quotes - Page 609

There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Chance favors only those who court her.

Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

We need to listen to one another.

The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.