Quotes

I collect quotes

“Don’t mistake activity for achievement” - John Wooden

“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Inexperience doesn’t necessarily mean inability.” – Alexander Mundy (It Takes a Thief)

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Vengeance Is a lazy form of grief.” – Sylvia Broom (The Interpreter)

“I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“I never let schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

“The opportunity of a lifetime is only available in the lifetime of the opportunity.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.” – Unknown

“Wherever you are – be all there.” – Jim Elliot

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“A man with no vision for the future will always return to his past.” – Unknown

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie

“The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” -Frances Willard

“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” – Henry David Thoreau

“A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.” – General George S. Patton

“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” – Hudson Taylor

“Talent can take you where you character cannot sustain you.” – Unknown

“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” - St. Francis of Assis

“It were better to have not opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him: for the one is disbelief, the other is contempt.” – Sir Francis Bacon

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” – G. K. Chesterton

“When we don’t look for God as our true life, our desire for Him spills over into other desires, giving them an ultimatecy and an urgency they were never intended to bear.” – John Eldridge

“Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.” – Francis Cardinal Spellman

“Everyone lives by selling something.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“We have a ‘strategic plan. It’s called doing things.” – Herb Kelleher

“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” – Phil Daniels (Australian businessman)

“If people tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.” – Michael Bloomberg

“If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

“You know a design is good when you want to lick it.” – Steve Jobs

“The pages of the future have yet to be written, will your life be the ink?” – Michael Collins

“I prayed for 20 years but I didn’t get anywhere until I prayed with my legs.” – Frederick Douglas

“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.” – Chinese Proverb

“People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for , trust.” – Howard Schultz

“How Would You Play Today If You Knew You Could Not Play Tomorrow” – Diane Geppi-Aikens

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

“Conscience is condensed character.” – Unknown

“You cannot stuff a great life into a small dream.” – Unknown

“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.” – Bette Davis

“Speak softly and carry a big stick.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

“I killed the man that was sent to kill me.” – Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford-Firewall)

“To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success.” – HJ Heinz

“I was very sad, because I had no shoes, until I met a man without feet.” – Harold Abbot

“When the winds of change are blowing some build shelters and other windmills.” – Mao Tse Tung

“Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“All great & honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages.” – William Bradford

“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” – Bob Pierce

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship does not”. – John Piper

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” – Dr Samuel Johnson

“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.” – G. K. Chesterton

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” – G. K. Chesterton

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” – Anton Chekhov

“Creativity require the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm

“Endurance is patience concentrated.” – Thomas Carlyle

“Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God.” – Unknown

“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.” – Arthur Calwell

“A life without cause is a life without effect.” – Barbarella

“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” – Bodie Thoene

“If man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?” – Blaise Pascal

“Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.” – C.S. Lewis

“The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes.” – Confucius

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. – Edgar J. Mohn

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank H. Clark

“When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them faithful to each other will be much disappointed.” – George Horne

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” – George Washington

“Create a cause, not a business.” – Gary Hamel

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” – G. K. Chesterton

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” – G. K. Chesterton

“Change the character of a boy and you’ll change the destiny of a man.” – Unknown

“You’re not the product of a broken home, a devastated economy, a world in the upheaval of war, a minority group, a family of drunkards, or a poverty-ridden neighborhood. You are the product of your own thinking processes and whatever you’re thinking about today is the cornerstone of your tomorrow.” – Thomas Sikking

“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.” – Tryon Edwards

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” – Will Rogers

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.” – Winston Churchill

“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.” – Peter F. Drucker

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” – General Eric Shinseki

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter F. Drucker

“Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers