Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

— Madame du Deffand

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Men argue; nature acts.

— Voltaire

When you call upon a thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

— Patricia Neal

regarding a motto above her father’s desk.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself…Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

— James Allen

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

— Mother Teresa

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

Wisdom is knowledge plus: knowledge—and the knowledge of its own limits.

— Viktor E. Frankl

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men:

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool — shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple — teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep — wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise — follow him.

— Arabian Proverb

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. No more deadly harm can be done to young minds than by depreciation of the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

— Ruth Benedict

God does not play dice.

— Albert Einstein

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That which makes the tongue speak but which cannot be spoken by the tongue—that alone is God, not what people worship.

That which makes the mind think but which cannot be thought by the mind—that alone is God, not what people worship.

That which makes the eye see but which cannot be seen by the eye—that alone is God, not what people worship.

That which makes the ear hear but which cannot be heard by the ear—that alone is God, not what people worship.

If you think that you know God, you know very little, all that you can know are ideas and images of God.

— The Upanishads

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

— Chinese Proverb

The sorrows of life do not create problem; they reveal them.

— Warren Wiersbe

Learn to say “No”. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost.

— German Proverb

Besides the noble art of getting things done,there is the noble art of leaving things undone.The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

— Lin Yutang

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

— George Bernard Shaw

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

— Eudora Welty


Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

— Corrie ten Boom

Everything that we are, everything that we do, everything that we say is immortal in the sense that it has its effect somewhere in the world, and that effect in turn will have its results somewhere else, and the thing goes on in infinite time and space. A man is what he thinks, and every one who has influenced him—from Socrates, Plato, and Confucius down to his parish preacher and his nursery governess— lives in him.

— HuShih

When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword.
When you meet a man who is not a poet,do not show him your poem.

— Lin-chi

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[My mother] said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

— Maya Angelou

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence.It required infinite intelligence to create it, and it requires infinite intelligence to keep it on its course.Everything that surrounds us—everything that exists—proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact.It is mathematical in its precision.

— Thomas Alva Edison

We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.

— Konrad Adenaur

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Confidence is contagious, so is lack of confidence.

— Vince Lombardi

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam.

— Kahlil Gibran

Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coërciveness: it is always urgent, “here and now” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

— Psalm 8: 2-5

I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

— Harry Lloyd

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

— David Reisman

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

— Glenn Clark

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

— Joseph Joubert

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