Sayings

SAYINGS



Ability To learn to be able, a man needs to be able to learn.



Ability You can always tell luck from ability by its duration.



Ability God never asks about our ability or our inability – just our availability.



Ability God‘s won‘t ask what your job title was. He will ask did you perform your

job to the best of your ability.



Ability Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm Forbes



Ability Ability may get you to the top – but it takes character to keep you there.



Ability The remarkable thing about most of us is our ability to live beyond our

means.



Ability Executive ability is the art of getting credit for all the hard work that

somebody else does.



Ability The less a person‘s ability the greater their conceit.



Ability We rate ability in people by what they finish, not by what they attempt.



Ability Many people doubt their ability, but few have any misgivings about their

importance.



Abstinence To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine



Acceptance Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

consequence of any misfortune.

William James



Acceptance Acceptance of God‘s free grace is in itself surrender.



Acceptance The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done

you a small favour wish that they might have done you a greater one.

Russell Lynes



Accomplishment There are four steps to accomplishment: Plan purposefully. Prepare

prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.



Accomplishment Most of us are inclined to measure our accomplishments by what other

people haven‘t done.









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Accomplishment The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again

after you fell.

Vince Lombardi



Accomplishment Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realising that life is

made up of little things.

Frank Clarke



Accomplishment Don‘t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you

should have accomplished with your ability.



Achievement The secret of achievement is not to let what you are doing get to you

before you get to it.



Achievement Death is the greatest leveller of human achievement.

David Tait



Achievement Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Maya Angelou



Achievement The highest achievement in life is to find and follow God‘s will for you.



Achievement When dreams are achieved, they bring joy and rejoicing.



Achievement Achievement usually brings success, but in God‘s realm success

depends only on relationship with Him.



Achievement Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally

those who achieve something.

Aldous Huxley



Achievement That‘s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong



Achievement The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Denis Waitley



Acquaintance An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from,

but not well enough to lend to.

Ambrose Bierce



Action Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop

thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte



Action Never confuse motion with action.



Action How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before

starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank







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Action If all our talk was turned into action, the whole world would have been

converted many times over.

Donald Tait



Action Action without vision is a nightmare.



Action The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.



Action He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on

one leg.

Chinese Proverb



Action After all is said and done, more is said than done.



Action We develop by action. The more we do the more we can do. The busier

we are, the more leisure we have.



Action There are three ways to get things done: Do it yourself, hire someone to

do it; or forbid your kids to do it.



Action The world is moving so fast now a days that the man who says it can‘t be

done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Elbert Hubbard



Action Action may not always bring happiness,

but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli



Action Crown every passing day with some good action.



Actions Others may be deaf to our words, but never blind to our actions.

William Arthur Ward



Actions The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke



Actions We are not what we are because of what we do, but we do what we do

because of what we are.



Actions People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.



Actions Actions speak louder than words.



Actions If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.



Addiction An addiction, by its very nature, is something that is beyond your control.

Richard Foster



Addiction Resolves of the will alone are useless in defeating a true addiction.







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Richard Foster



Admiration Don‘t accept your dog‘s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are

wonderful.



Adulation We aren‘t content with a bite of adulation – we tend to swallow it all.

Max Lucado



Adultery Adultery is toxic to any marriage relationship. It can range from

fragmenting it severely through to absolutely destroying it.

Cynthia Davis – Clinical Psychologist



Adultery Adultery is really a betrayal of trust.

Bruce Manners



Advantages Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain

always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson



Adventure Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.

Louis A‘Amour



Adventure A journey with God is always a great adventure.



Adversity What we call adversity, God calls opportunity.



Adversity We learn some things from prosperity, but we learn many more from

adversity.



Adversity Adversity is the only diet that will reduce a fat head.



Adversity Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on a

pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings



Adversity For every man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will

stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle



Adversity Adversity is never improved by advertisement.



Adversity By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man‘s, I

mean.

Mark Twain



Adversity Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.



Adversity In adversity, a man can very well become acquainted with himself

because he is free from admirers.









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Advertising Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr



Advertising Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

George Orwell



Advertising As advertising blather becomes the nation‘s normal idiom, language

becomes printed noise.

George Will



Advice Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give, but dreadfully uneasy to

take.

Josh Billings



Advice It takes a great person to give sound advice tactfully, but a great person

to accept it graciously.



Advice Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most like it the

least.



Advice Advice is what the wise don‘t need and fools won‘t take.



Advice When a person starts handing you a lot of free advice, it‘s pretty certain it

wasn‘t worth keeping for personal use.



Advice Advice is like mushrooms – consuming the wrong kind may prove fatal.



Advice We are never so generous as when giving advice.



Advice I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never

of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde



Advice No one gives out advice with more enthusiasm than an ignorant person.



Advice Children of all ages have one thing in common – they close their ears to

advice and open their eyes to example.



Advice Advice may be had for nothing and is usually worth it.



Advice The only time to give advice is when it is asked for.



Advice A good example can overcome a lot of bad advice.



Advice We might be more eager to accept good advice if it did not continually

interfere with our plans.



Advice The best advice yet given is that you don‘t have to take it.

Libbie Fudim









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Advice The better the advice, the harder it is to take.



Advice We ask advice, but mean approbation.

Colton



Advice The most valuable advice you can usually get comes from the one who is

most reluctant to give it.



Advice When a man gets too old to set a bad example, he usually starts giving

good advice.



Advice The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others.



Advice Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we

didn‘t.

Erica Jong



Advice An intelligent person not only knows how to take advice, but also how to

reject it.



Advice We naturally admire the wisdom and good judgment of those who come

to us for advice.



Advice It is much better to tell people how to get on than to tell them where to

get off.



Advice Free advice generally costs more than the other kind.



Advice I‘ve learned that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances; when

it is requested and when it is a life- threatening situation.



Advice One who doesn‘t want advice generally needs it.



Advice Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

Bern Williams



Advice Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always

exceeds the demand.



Advice There are two quick ways to disaster: taking nobody‘s advice and taking

everybody‘s advice.



Advice Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the

deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Advisers Many people want to serve God, but only as advisers.



Affectation Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine

and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.







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John Locke



Affliction Earthly affliction does not equate to heavenly rejection.

Max Lucado



Affirmation Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from his neck saying, ―Make me

feel important.‖



Age We do not count a man‘s years until he has nothing else to count.



Age Age may wrinkle the face but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.



Age A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore



Age Middle age is when the broadness of the mind and the narrowness of the

waist change places.



Age Reminiscing is a sign of advancing age.



Age Age doesn‘t always bring wisdom, sometimes age comes alone.



Age We live in an ‗age‘ where nobody wants to hold the reins, but everybody

wants to kick the horse.



Age I prefer old age to the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier



Age A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old

age.

Cicero



Age Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24 or 25 in their heart.

Bruce Willis



Age The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Mark Twain



Age Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky



Age Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain

by reviling those we no longer have the vigour to commit.

Ambrose Bierce



Age Old age is about the only thing that comes without effort.



Age To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch









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Age Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.



Age What is called the serenity of age is only perhaps a euphemism for the

fading power to feel the sudden shock of joy or sorrow.

Arthur Bliss



Age Middle age is the difficult period between adolescence and retirement

when you have to take care of yourself.



Age Middle age is when actions creak louder than words.



Age The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are

added to the ages of other women.

Diane de Poitiers



Aging No one gets older - there is just an increasing deficiency of youth.



Aging Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to

get.

Ralph Waldo Emerso3



Ageing Do not resent growing old; think how much you‘d resent being denied the

privilege.



Aging When a man falls into his anecdotage it is a sign for him to retire from the

world.

Benjamin Disraeli



Aging Considering the alternative, it‘s not too bad at all.

Maurice Chevalier



Aging Growing old is inevitable; growing up is optional.



Aging Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time

to form.

André Maurois



Aging Aging is God‘s idea. It‘s one of the ways He keeps us headed

homeward.

Max Lucado



Aging If I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care

of myself.



Aging Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

Jonathan Swift



Agony The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

Bruno Bettelheim









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Agree It is never wise to agree with a fool – the bystanders might not know

which is which.



Ahead Never kick anyone in the seat of the pants – or he‘s one step ahead of

you.



Aim We never see the target a man aims at in life; we see only the target he

hits.



Aim Many people aim to do right but are just poor shots.



Aim Following the line of least resistance is what makes rivers and people

crooked.



Aim A high mark was never hit by a low aim.



Aim There is a tremendous difference between having an aim in life and just

shooting at random.



Alcohol One reason why I don‘t drink is because I wish to know when I am having

a good time.

Nancy Astor



Alcohol We drink one another‘s health, and spoil our own.

Jerome K. Jerome



Allegiance Do you say ‗Our Father‘ on Sunday and then act like an orphan the rest

of the week?



Alone The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.

The heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Pearl Buck



Ambassador An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his

country.

Henry Wotton



Ambition There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to

stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke



Ambition Ambition without determination has no destination.



Ambition Ease is the enemy of ambition.



Ambition Ambition never gets anywhere until it forms a partnership with work.



Ambition Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land.

Mark Lee









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Ambition Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always

do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become

great.

Mark Twain



Ambition One of the secret ambitions of many people is to be able to enjoy some

of the evils which go with having too much money.



Ambition Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to

extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.



Ancestry The man who has nothing to boast but his illustrious ancestry is like the

potato – the best is underground.



Anchor Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.



Anchor To realise the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the storm.



Anecdotes Anecdotes are a social currency, to be exchanged in the office, at a party

or where we meet.

Edward Leeson



Angels Angels may not come when you call them, but they come when you need

them.

Karen Goldman



Angels Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope



Anger There is no better extinguisher for the flames of anger and bitterness

than kindness.



Anger The person who gets on their high horse is riding for a fall.



Anger When angry, count to ten before speaking. When very angry, count to

one hundred and then don‘t speak.



Anger Anger is the argument of lost causes.



Anger Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Lord Halifax



Anger It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing

something they‘ve done themselves.

Rodney Dangerfield



Anger No one can be reasonable and angry at the same time.



Anger Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber







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Anger Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It

burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou



Anger The greatest remedy for anger is delay; the best answer to anger is

silence.



Anger Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher



Anger He is a fool who cannot be angry:

He is a wise man who will not.



Anger Giving anyone a piece of your mind robs yourself.



Anger He who angers you controls you.

Elizabeth Kenny



Anger Anger is a short madness.

Horace



Anger Anger is that feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.



Anger There is always a reason for anger – but never a good one.



Anger Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.



Anger Anger is the wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.



Anger If you are patient in one moment of anger….you will escape a hundred

days of sorrow.

Chinese Proverb



Anger The world needs more warm hearts and fewer hot heads.



Anger People with clenched fists cannot shake hands.



Anger For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness that

you can never get back.



Anger People who fly into a rage never need much ground for take off.



Anger Keep your temper - no one else wants it.



Anger To know a person best - observe them when angry.



Anger Those who are always blowing a fuse, are usually in the dark.



Anger The emptier the pot, the quicker it boils – watch your temper.







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Anger The word ‗anger‘ is only one letter removed from ‗danger‘.



Anger When a man is wrong and won‘t admit it, he always gets angry.

Haliburton



Anger He who angers you, controls you!



Anger The only person you hurt when you get mad is yourself.



Answer A soft answer is less likely to give you a hard time.



Answers Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the

questions.



Answers If ‗what to do‘ is your question, look to ‗what to be‘ for the answer.

David Tait



Answers We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it

than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lloyd Alexander



Answers The man who claims to have all the answers cannot have been asked all

the questions.

David Tait



Answers If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you,

then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of

unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles,

and most of all, things unfair.

Madame Jeanne Guyon



Antiques The best antique is an old friend.



Anxiety If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn‘t be so anxious.

Mignon McLauchlin



Anxiety Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of

anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the

day.



Anxiety Anxiety is caused by trying to mentally or emotionally get into things that

are not yet here or things that have already past.



Anxiety Soul surgery transpires as serenity replaces anxiety.

Charles Swindoll



Anxiety Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged,

it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Roche







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Anxiety The weight of weariness pulls you down. Self-reliance misleads you.

Disappointments discourage you. Anxiety plagues you. But guilt

consumes you.

Max Lucado



Anxiety Anxiety earns you heartburn, nothing more.

Max Lucado



Apathy I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate, it‘s

apathy.

Leo Buscaglia (1925 -)



Apathy Everyone talks about apathy but nobody does anything about it.



Apathy Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no

remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Helen Keller



Apology The best way to get the last word is to apologise.



Apology An apology is a best way to have the last word.



Appearance Nobody is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue.

C.H. Spurgeon



Appearance Appearances are often deceiving.

Aesop



Appetite Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down

without one.



Applause Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Colton



Appraisal Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can

be counted, counts.

Einstein (?)



Appreciation There are more than 4 billion people on this earth who go to bed hungry

for an honest word of appreciation.

Zig Ziglar (1926 -)



Appreciation The world‘s most unsatisfied hunger is for appreciation.



Appreciation Appreciation makes people feel more important that most anything you

can give them.



Appreciation It is better to appreciate something you cannot have that to have

something you cannot appreciate.







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Appreciation Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while

discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and

better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn



Aptitude It is not aptitude but attitude that determines altitude.



Aspiration Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach

them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to

follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott



Assertion There is nothing as cheap and weak in debate as assertion that is not

backed by fact.



Argument Argument creates more differences than it settles.



Argument An argument is where two people are trying to get in the last word first.



Argument There‘s too much said for the sake of argument and too little said for the

sake of agreement.

Cullen Hightower



Argument Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell which is which.



Argument Sometimes when arguing with a fool, he is doing the same thing.



Argument It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.



Argument An argument is a question with two sides - and no end.



Argument Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.



Argument The most convincing argument in the world is intelligent silence.



Argument I don‘t have to attend every argument I‘m invited to.



Argument The surest sign that you have no brains is to argue with one who hasn‘t.



Argument The cross is the last argument of God.

Charles Spurgeon



Argument An argument is a collision between two trains of thought in which both

are derailed.



Argument Nothing can keep an argument going like two persons who aren‘t sure

what they‘re arguing about.

O.A. Battista









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Argument Most of us are broad-minded; in an argument we see both points of view,

the one that is wrong and our own.



Argument Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is only an exchange

of ignorance.



Argument The only people who listen to both sides of a family argument are those

who live next door.



Argument The weaker the argument, the stronger and louder the words.



Argument Emotion may win audiences, but it generally loses arguments.



Argument Use soft words and hard arguments.



Arithmetic The most difficult arithmetic to master is the art of counting your

blessings.



Armageddon This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

Ronald Reagan



Arrive If you don‘t start, it‘s certain you won‘t arrive.



Arrogance God doesn‘t dislike or disapprove of arrogance, He hates it.

Max Lucado



Arrogance To see sin without grace is despair; to see grace without sin is

arrogance; to see them in tandem is conversion.

Max Lucado



Arrogance God loves humility with the same intensity He hates arrogance.

Max Lucado



Aspirations The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have

reminiscences of what never happened.

Saki



Atheism Atheism was the natural philosophy of humanity.

Alister McGrath



Atheism Human happiness depends upon the triumph of atheism, which alone

can liberate humanity from tyranny, war, and oppression.

Julian Offroy de la Mettrie



Atheist An atheist does not find God for the same reason that a thief does not

find a policeman - he is not looking for him.



Atheist An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support.









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Atheist I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth

and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the

heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln



Atheist A good question for an atheist is to serve him a fine meal and then ask

him if he believes there is a cook.



Atheist An atheist is the person who shakes his fist and defies the God he claims

doesn‘t exist.



Attempt Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.

William Van Horne



Attention The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

Usher



Attention There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite

attention if you are entertaining them.

Jerry Seinfeld



Attitude No one is defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.



Attitude Troubles are like babies: they only grow by nursing.

Douglas Jerrold (1803 - 1857)



Attitude When pessimists think they‘re taking a chance, optimists feel they‘re

grasping a great opportunity.



Attitude The greatest discovery of my generating is that human beings can alter

their lives by altering their attitude of mind.

William James



Attitude The attitude within is more important than the circumstances without.



Attitude There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big

difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether

it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Howe



Attitude Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working

twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance

that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Irving Berlin



Attitude Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.



Attitude The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when

you change your attitude.

Robert Schuller







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Attitude Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.



Attitude If you don‘t like something, change it. If you can‘t change it, change your

attitude. Don‘t complain.

Maya Angelou





Attitude The currents that determine and shape our lives flow from the attitudes

we nurture every day.



Attitude We cannot cause the wind to blow the way we want it to, but we can so

adjust our sails that they will take us where we want to go.



Attitude If you are unhappy with your lot in life, build a service station on it.

Corrie Ten Boom (1892 - 1983)



Attitude Attitude is the mind‘s paintbrush. It can colour any situation.



Attitude The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond



Attitude I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it‘s only a choice of

attitude.

Abraham Lincoln (Judith Knowlton)



Attitude It‘s not aptitude but attitude that determines altitude.



Authority Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change; when I am right,

make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my

example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

Pauline H. Peters



Authority Give some people authority and they grow, give it to others and they

swell.





Authority If there‘s anything small, or shallow, or ugly about a person, giving him a

little authority will bring it out.



Autobiography An autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other

people.

Philip Guedalla



Availability God never asks about our ability or our inability – just our availability.



Average Remember in the eyes of average people, average is always considered

outstanding.









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Awareness Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in

awareness.

James Thurber



Bachelor Somehow, a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of

beauty and a boy forever!

Helen Rowland



Balance God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.



Balance Having a chip on one‘s shoulder does nothing to make a man balanced.



Balance Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

Deepak Chopra



Bankruptcy Those who taste God‘s presence have declared spiritual bankruptcy, and

are aware of their spiritual crisis.

Max Lucado



Bargain A bargain is often something you don‘t need but can‘t do without.



Bargain A bargain is something you can do without but can‘t afford to miss.



Beauty Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

Richter



Beauty A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases; it will never

pass into nothingness.

John Keats



Beauty Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has

been in the house three days.

George Bernard Shaw



Beauty Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes straight to the bone.



Beauty Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people

are works of art.



Beauty Beauty, without virtue, is like a flower without perfume.



Beauty Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke



Beauty Time may be a great healer but it‘s a lousy beautician.



Beauty The most beautiful sunsets are made by cloudy skies.



Beginning Begin each day as if it is the beginning of your life, for truly it is the

beginning of what is left of your life.







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Beginning In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a beginning.



Behaviour A father is usually more pleased to have his child look like him that act

like him.



Behaviour Judging from the way some people behave these days, they must think

that hell has been air-conditioned.



Behaviour No one has a right to do as they please, except when they do right.



Behaviour No one can stay young very long, but some manage to behave like

children all their lives.



Behaviour My strange behaviour as a child is easily explained; I was training to be

an adult.



Behaviour Some people sow wild oats during the week and then go to church on

Sunday and pray for a crop failure.



Behaviour A lot of good behaviour is due to poor health.



Behaviour To really know a man, observe his behaviour with a woman, a tire and a

child.



Being Who is it that can tell me who I am?

Shakespeare (King Lear)





Being Man expects 'to do' in order 'to be', but God requires us 'to be'

in order 'to do'.

David Tait



Belief Belief is of the mind, worship of the heart, and obedience is of the will.

David Tait



Belief We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

George Eliot



Believe Christ believed is salvation received.



Belittle To belittle is to be little.



Best God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.



Best Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things

turn out.



Best When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the

best in ourselves.







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William Arthur Ward



Bible The devil is not afraid of the Bible that has dust on it.



Bible Dust on your Bible is not evidence that it is a dry book.



Bible Sin may keep you from the Bible, but the Bible will keep you from sin.



Bible Bible verses will save you from spiritual reverses.



Bible Books are for information. The Bible brings transformation.



Bible The most desirable time to read the Bible is as often as possible.



Bible The Bible is a window in this prison-world through which we may look into

eternity.



Bible A book which will lift people up to God must have come down from God.



Bible A person who merely samples the word of God occasionally never

acquires much of a taste for it.



Bigot Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings



Bigotry In real life the people who are the most bigoted are the people who have

no convictions at all.

G.K. Chesterton



Bigotry Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Rabindranah Tagore



Bigotry Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no

opinions.

G.K. Chesterton



Birthdays Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the

most live the longest.



Bitterness Bitterness is its own prison. Black and cold, bitterness denies easy

escape. The sides are slippery with resentment. A floor of muddy anger

stills the feet. The stench of betrayal fills the air, and stings the eyes. A

cloud of self-pity blocks the view of the tiny exit above.

Max Lucado



Bitterness Bitterness‘ black blanket darkens your world, dims your sight, sours your

outlook, and suffocates your joy.

Max Lucado









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Bitterness Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It

burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou



Bitterness If you harbour bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

Andy Rooney



Bitterness There is no better extinguisher for the flames of

anger and bitterness than kindness.



Bitterness Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Bitterness paralyses life; love empowers it.

Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it.

Bitterness sickens life; love heals it.

Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



Bitterness Age may wrinkle the face but bitterness wrinkles the soul.



Bitterness No one ever moved from bitter to better until the ―I‖ moved out.



Blame I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Great (1729 - 1796)



Blame Winners never blame anybody; only losers try to blame other people for

what went wrong.

Ron Barrassi



Blame If something is wrong, better to talk about who will fix it, than who is to

blame.



Blame A good boss is someone who takes a little more than their share of the

blame and a little less that their share of the credit.



Blame The man who can smile when things go wrong has probably just thought

of someone he can blame.



Blame A man may make many mistakes, but is not a failure until he starts

blaming someone else for them.



Blame There‘s a lot of trouble in this country nowadays, and it seems everybody

is trying to fix the blame instead of the trouble.



Blessed Blessed is the person who has learned to admire

but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise

but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.



Blessings The thickest cloud may bring the heaviest shower of blessings.



Blessings When I count my blessings, I count you twice.







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Blessings The most difficult arithmetic to master is the art of counting your

blessings.



Blessings Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on

your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens



Blessings God‘s greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters.

Max Lucado



Blessings God‘s blessings are dispensed according to the riches of His grace, not

according to the depth of our faith.

Max Lucado



Blessings Don‘t always look to get a blessing, look to be a blessing.



Blindness Man can always be blind to a thing so long as it is big enough.

G.K. Chesterton



Blunder Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.



Boasting The trouble with blowing your own trumpet is that you usually play solo.



Boasting The man who boasts that he never made a mistake has a wife who did.



Boasting Do not boast about what you are going to do tomorrow unless you can

say the same thing about yesterday.



Boasting The person who boasts of their open mind may only have it vacant.



Boasting When boasting ends the dignity begins.



Boasting The man who brags about what he is going to do tomorrow probably did

the same thing yesterday.



Boasting A boaster and a liar are first cousins.



Boasting A person who has a right to boast doesn‘t have to.



Boasting Those who have a right to boast don‘t need to.



Bondage There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of

hope.

Roy Kemp



Books Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most

accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles W. Eliot









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Boredom Is boredom anything less than the sense of one‘s faculties slowly dying.

John Berger



Bore A bore is someone who is ‗me-deep‘ in conversation.



Bore One who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli



Bore A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats into it.

Henry Ford



Bore A bore is someone who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.



Boring The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Voltaire



Boss A good boss is someone who takes a little more than their share of the

blame and a little less than their share of the credit.



Boss A person‘s best boss is a well-trained conscience.



Brainwashing Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that

right is pre-empted it is called brainwashing.

Germaine Greer



Bravery A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes

longer.



Bravery The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess

courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris



Brain A brain is only as strong as its weakest think.



Brevity Brevity is the soul of wit.

Shakespeare



Brevity Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

Miguel de Cervantes



Bribe Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than money.

Robert H. Jackson



Bribe But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Alfred Lord Tennyson



Bridges Bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren‘t

there.

Gene Brown









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Brooding Brooding over one‘s troubles ensures a perfect hatch,



Brother I sought my God, but my God eluded me;

I sought my soul, but my soul, I could not see;

I sought my brother, and I found all three.



Budget A budget is a family‘s attempt to live below its yearnings.



Burdens The burdens that appear easiest to carry are those borne by others.



Burdens Let‘s not pray from lighter burdens but for stronger backs.



Burdens Life‘s heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.



Bureaucracy Paper work is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an

appearance of life where none exists.

Robert Meltzer



Business One of the hardest things about business is minding your own.



Busybodies Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.



Busyness The archenemy of spiritual authenticity is busyness, which is closely tied

to something the Bible calls worldliness – getting caught up with the

society‘s agenda, objectives and activities to the neglect of walking with

God.

Bill Hybels



Busyness People are never too busy to tell you all they have to do.



Buy All the gold in the world cannot buy a friend, character, peace of mind, or

a clear conscience.

Charles F. Banning



Calamity The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to

feel right at home when you‘re not.

Max Lucado



Calamity Calamities are of two kinds; misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune

to others.

Ambrose Bierce



Call God does not call the qualified; He qualifies the called.



Calling Our highest calling in life is to follow God‘s will with gratitude.



Calm Sometimes God calms the story; sometimes He lets the storm rage and

calms His child.









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Calmness Sometimes the Lord calms the storm; sometimes He let‘s the storm rage

and calms His child.



Calorie I never met a calorie I didn‘t like.





Calvary Calvary is the compost pile for sins and guilt. Will you leave yours there?

Max Lucado



Candour Candour is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Peggy Noonan



Candour Candour is what one woman thinks about another woman‘s dress; tact is

what she says about it.



Careful A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.



Caring Caring is the art of sharing,

Sharing is the art of living,

Living is the art of loving,

Loving is the art of caring.



Caring Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.



Causes There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Albert Camus



Caution Caution is what we call cowardice in others.



Celebrity A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and

then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.



Censorship To portray only what you would like to be true is the beginning of

censorship.

David Hare



Censorship Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned.

Heinrich Heine



Certainty A dogmatic person is sure that he‘s right before making certain that he‘s

sure.



Challenge The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of

comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and

controversy.

Martin Luther King



Chance Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing

to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan







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Chance The chance of winning the lottery jackpot is less than that of being struck

by lightning. I have never bought a ticket and plan to buy an insulating

rubber helmet with the money I save. It will increase my life expectancy

by one fourteen-millionth.

Steve Jones



Chance Chance favours the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur



Chance Death delivers no second chance.



Chance At any rate, I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein



Chances Growl and grumble and your chances in life will crumble.



Chances Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most

difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson



Change Resisting change is like holding one‘s breath,

if it is done well, the outcome can be fatal.



Change Most people are willing to change, not because they see the light, but

because they feel the heat.



Change You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi



Change Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

John F Kennedy



Change Every organisation of today has to build into its very structure the

management of change.

Peter Drucker



Change Change is here to stay.



Change No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Hal Borland



Change In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of

action.

Brian Tracy



Change People don‘t fear change so much, they fear the unknown.









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Change Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can

change he world. Indeed it is the only things that every has.

Margaret Mead



Change Every problem we want to solve, condition we want to improve and wrong

we want to right begins with us. If we want to change the world, first

change ourselves.

John C. Maxwell



Change Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Samuel Johnson



Change God give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us the

courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to

distinguish one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr



Change Conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you

leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you

leave it to a torrent of change.

G.K. Chesterton



Change If you don‘t like change you‘re going to like irrelevance a lot less.

Eric Shinseki



Change Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing

himself.

Leo Tolstoy



Change Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit

by it, but to cause it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



Change If you don‘t like something, change it. If you can‘t change it, change your

attitude. Don‘t complain.

Maya Angelou



Change The only time you can change a man is when he is still in nappies.

Tolstoy



Change Change is such hard work.

Billy Crystal



Change Change when it comes cracks everything open.

Dorothy Allison



Change Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little

ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.



Change Everybody is in favour of progress. It‘s the change they don‘t like.







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Change Be the change you want to see in the world.

Ghandi



Change I sometimes sense the world is changing almost too fast for its

inhabitants, at least for us older ones.

Queen Elizabeth II



Character Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single act.



Character Only you can damage your character.



Character Character consists of what you do on the third or fourth tries.



Character Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.

Congressman J.C. Watts



Character Character is doing the right thing when no one is looking.



Character Character is what you are in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody



Character Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their

character.



Character A person‘s character is like a fence. It cannot be strengthened by

whitewash.



Character Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character.

Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Charles Reade



Character God wants spiritual fruits, not religious nuts.



Character Character is totally transparent and is evident in the manner we reflect

God‘s love to others.



Character Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His

character determines the character of his organisation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Character Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of

his character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Character Hard work highlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses, and some don‘t turn up at all.



Character Character is like a tree and reputation is its shadow. The shadow is what

we think of it, the tree is the real thing.







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Abraham Lincoln



Character The measure of a person‘s real character is what he would do if he knew

he would never be found out.



Character Genuine nobility comes not through birth or position, but through the

development of a godly character.

David Tait



Character Character is ‗walking the talk‘.

David Tait



Character Character is not made in a crisis – it is only exhibited.



Character Choice is to the future as character is to destiny.



Character Character is power.

Booker T. Washington



Character Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will

never be produced by money.

W.H. Kellogg



Character Personality has the power to open any doors, but character keeps them

open.



Character Ability may get you to the top – but it takes character to keep you there.



Character Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the

small ones.

Phillip Brooks



Character Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through

experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition

inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller



Character A society that puts more of a premium on outward conformity than

character development will be successful in preserving neither.

Stephen Chavez



Character It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great

characters are formed…Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams



Character Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Thomas Paine



Character Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the

excitement of the moment has passed.







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Cavett Robert



Character Character grows is the soil of experience, with the fertilisation of

example, the moisture of desire and the sunshine of satisfaction.



Character Nearly all men can stand adversity; but if you want to test a man‘s

character, give him power.



Charity Charity often consists of a generous impulse to give away something we

have no further use for.



Charity True charity simply means helping those you have every reason to

believe would not help you.



Charity Charity covers a multitude of sins, but curiosity soon uncovers them.



Charity In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.

Augustine



Charity Real charity doesn‘t care if it is deductible or not.



Charity Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Augustine



Chastity Give me chastity and continency – but not yet.

St Augustine of Hippo



Cheap What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly.

Thomas Paine



Cheating Cheating (in marriage) is a choice – it‘s neither inevitable nor compulsory.

Glenis Lindley



Cheerfulness Cheerfulness is contagious, but don‘t wait to catch it from others. Be a

carrier!



Cheerfulness Cheerfulness will open a door when other keys fail.



Cheerfulness The more of cheerfulness is spent the more it remains.



Cheerfulness Cheerfulness smooths the road of life.



Cheerfulness The person who gets along in the world is the one who can look cheerful

and happy when he isn‘t.



Cheerfulness The cheerful loser is a winner.



Cheerfulness The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else.

Mark Twain









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Child The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth



Children Children have more need of models than of critics.

Joseph Joubert (1834 - 1900).



Children Children need strength to lean on, a shoulder to cry on, and an example

to learn from.



Children The most important thing a man can do for his children is to love their

mother.



Children If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things

you say about them to others.



Children When you‘ve raised your children, stop raising them.



Children Never forget that once, and for a whole year, you were a 10-year-old.



Children The surest way to make it hard for your children is to make it soft for

them.



Children No two children are alike – particularly if one is yours and the other one

isn‘t.



Children Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every

effort to teach them good manners.



Children Children are a great deal more apt to follow your lead than the way you

point.



Children Children need love especially when they don‘t deserve it.



Chivalry Chivalry is the way a husband acts towards a wife – some other man‘s

wife.



Chivalry Chivalry is the practice of going around releasing beautiful maidens from

other men‘s castles and bringing them to your own.



Choice Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing

to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan



Choice Choice is to the future as character is to destiny.



Choice Today‘s choices decree our eternal destiny.



Choice The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.



Choice Freewill is a choice, obedience is the choice of freewill.







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David Tait



Choice Few people make a deliberate choice between good and evil – the choice

is between what we want to do and what we ought to do.



Choice You had no choice from where you came, but you can choose where you

go.



Choice God determines who walks into your life….It‘s up to you to decide who

you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.



Choice God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.



Choice The choice is simple – you can either stand up and be counted, or lie

down and be counted out.



Choices I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it‘s only a choice of

attitudes.

Judith Knowlton



Choices Present choices determine future consequences.



Choices Life is all about choices. Every situation is a choice. It‘s your choice how

you live your life.



Choices Life has many choices. Eternity has two. What‘s yours?





Christ We can‘t at one and the same time show that we are clever, and show

that Christ is wonderful.



Christian Live your life as a Christian, as if you had:-

nothing to lose

nothing to hide

nothing to prove.

Mark Finley



Christian A Christian shows what he is by what he does with what he has.



Christian No Christian has ever been known to recant on his deathbed.

C.M. Ward



Christian If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough

evidence to convict you?



Christian A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for

Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher









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Christian A true Christian does not put his rights before the feelings or others, or

his feelings before the rights of others.



Christian It doesn‘t take much of a man to be a Christian, but it takes all there is.



Christian Christians who move the world are those who do not let the world move

them.

Moody



Christian The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger

pain the second time around.

Herb Caen



Christian If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a

Christian anywhere.

Henry Ward Beecher



Christian A Christian is a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which

Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, a hand through which

Christ helps.



Christian Live so that if people get to know you, they will get to know Christ better.

Croft M. Pentz



Christian There is usually nothing so drab as an ex-Christian.



Christian A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Christian A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in the process of

becoming.

Martin Luther



Christian Too many Christians fraternise with the enemy.



Christian A real Christian is one who is more horrified by his own sins than by his

neighbours.



Christian Every Christian occupies some kind of pulpit and preaches some kind of

sermon every day.



Christian A Christian has not lost the power to sin, but the desire to sin.



Christian There may be many Christians who haven‘t stored up enough treasures

in heaven to make a down payment on a harp.



Christian No one can become a Christian on his own terms.



Christian A Christian is the keyhole through which other folks see God.

Robert E. Gibson







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Christian The best argument for a Risen Christ is a living Christian.



Christian The best vitamin for a Christian is B1.



Christian The true expression of being a Christian is not a sign but a song.



Christianity Christianity, in its purest form, is nothing more than seeing Jesus.

Christian service, in its purest form, is nothing more than imitating Him

who we see. To see His Majesty and to imitate Him, that is the sum of

Christianity.

Max Lucado



Christianity Real Christianity is a dynamic process that changes our lives.

William Barclay



Christianity If your Christianity won‘t work where you are, it won‘t work anywhere.



Christianity If you want to defend Christianity, practice it.



Christianity Christianity helps us to face the music even when we don‘t like the tune.



Christianity Christianity has not failed – it has not been fully applied as yet.



Christianity Christianity is the land of beginning again.



Christianity Christianity is a way of walking as well as a way of talking.



Christianity Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.

William Temple



Church If you stay away from church that makes you a Seventh-day Absentist.



Church Don‘t wait for 6 strong men to take you to church!



Church Don‘t wait for the hearse to take you to church.



Church Make church your first choice not the last resort.



Church The world at its worst needs the church at its best.



Church The church is always one generation away from extinction.

George Carey



Church Church was never meant to be a deep freeze for the preservation of

piety; it was intended to be a furnace that would fan the flames of faith.



Church It is easy to lose interest in the church if you have never made an

investment.









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Church Going to church doesn‘t make you a Christian any more than standing in

a garage makes you a car.



Church If the church were perfect you could not belong!



Church Sometimes the church praying for showers of blessings only needs a

thaw.



Church Church is where you go to find out what your neighbours should do to

lead better lives.



Church Stop griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn‘t belong.



Church Your absence from church is a vote to close its doors.



Church If the church wants a better preacher, it only needs to pray for the one it

has.



Church Members Church members, like autos, usually start missing before they quit.



Circular Reasoning People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln



Circular Reasoning Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be

stolen.

Lord Halifax



Circumstances Happiness is in the heart not the circumstances.



Circumstances His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which

circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado



Citizenship Citizenship in God‘s kingdom is always and only granted never

purchased or earned.



City A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert Prochnow



Civilisation Civilisation makes it possible for you to live off other people instead of off

the land.



Class Class is the yardstick of snobbery.



Classes There are two classes of people – those who possess a fierce

competitive hunting instinct, and those who pay to park their cars.



Clever We can‘t at one and the same time show that we are clever, and show

that Christ is wonderful.









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Clouds No cloud comes into your life but that God has put a rainbow in it.



Coercion Truth rejects with scorn every semblance of coercion; error greets with

outstretched hands any and all forms of suppression and oppression.

C.H. Edwards



Coercion Coercion is the kind of power that most people understand best.

Michael Korda



Coincidence Coincidences start happening when we start praying.



Coincidence A coincidence is a miracle where God prefers to remain anonymous.



Comedy Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Angela Carter



Comfort God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.



Comfort A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Mark Twain



Comfort We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,

when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be

enthusiastic about.



Comfort The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of

comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and

controversy.

Martin Luther King



Comfort Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not

only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of

mankind.

Henry Thoreau



Commandments When you love the Lord of Calvary‘s hill, you‘ll cherish the law from Sinai

Mountain.

Gary Moyer



Commitment Guidance means that I can count on God. Commitment means that God

can count on me.



Commitment The world wants your best but God wants your all.



Commitment Jesus never has the person until He has the purse.



Commitment Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart.



Commitment Too many people are ready to carry the stool, when there‘s a piano to be

moved.







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Commitment What controls our lives is what we‘re committed to.



Commitment With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as

God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln



Commitment I will place no value on anything I have or possess except in relation to

the kingdom of Christ.

David Livingstone (as a young man)



Commitment My Jesus, my King, my life, my all, I again dedicate my whole life to

Thee.

David Livingstone (in diary 5 days after Stanley left him)



Committee A committee is a group that keeps minutes but loses hours.

Milton Berle



Committee Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are

too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

Katharine Whitehorn



Committee A committee is a group of important individuals who singly can do

nothing but who can together agree that nothing can be done.

Fred Allen



Common sense Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing

things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings



Common sense Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Coleridge



Common sense Common sense is not so common.

Voltaire



Common sense Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every

man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

René Descartes



Common sense Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in

the mind before you reach eighteen.

Albert Einstein



Communication Real communication happens when people feel safe

Ken Blanchard



Communication I‘m sorry for not communicating but sometimes it‘s hard to write on a

moving planet!









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Communion David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but

the enjoyment of communion with God was an urgent need of his

soul…an absolute necessity.

Charles Spurgeon



Community A graceless community is an oxymoron for it is no community at all.

Dwight Nelson



Compassion Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey (1926 - )



Compassion Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.



Compassion Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein



Compassion Until mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all living

things, he will never, himself, know peace.

Albert Schweitzer



Compassion Man may dismiss compassion from his heart but God never will.



Compassion Compassion has no place in the natural order of he world which operates

on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is

therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

John Berger



Compassion If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be

happy, practise compassion.

Dalai Lama



Compensation It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no one can

sincerely try to help another without helping he.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Complacency The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is

for you to rest on them.

Donald P. Jones



Complacency Competition is the enemy of complacency.



Complaints Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones

who dropped it.



Complaints A complaining spirit is first a caller, then a guest, and finally a master.



Complaints It‘s the people who beef too much who get into stews.



Complaints People complain most about things over which they have no control.







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Complaints Don‘t complain. The wheel that squeaks the loudest often gets replaced.



Complaints Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.



Compliments Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay

are compliments.

Oscar Wilde



Compliments I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Mark Twain



Compliments Compliments cost nothing but often pave the road to open doors.



Compost Calvary is the compost pile for sins and guilt. Will you leave yours there?

Max Lucado



Compromise. Compromise may appear to be an attractive option, but it is a dead-end

street.

Roger Ellsworth



Compromise An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

Lord Edward Cecil



Compromise We have a truth that admits of no compromise.

Ellen G. White



Conceit A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already

there.



Conceit Conceit grows as naturally as the hair on one‘s head, but it takes longer

to come out.

Thomas C. Haliburton



Conceit Conceit may puff a man up, but it can never prop him up.

John Ruskin



Conceit Conceit is what makes a little squirt think it is a fountain of knowledge.



Conceit Conceit is a very strange disease: it makes everyone sick except the

person who has it.



Conceit The less a person‘s ability the greater their conceit.



Conciliation An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be

devoured.

Konrad Adenauer



Concentration Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Arnold Palmer







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Conclusion A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.



Conclusion The chief hazard in jumping at conclusions is the high percentage of

misses.



Confession Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to

man and you will be laughed at.

Josh Billings



Confidence Have enough confidence in yourself to let the other fellow take some risk.

Robert J. Buckley



Confidence Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Michael O‘Brien



Confidence Confidence is the certain feeling you have before you know better.



Confidence He who knows nothing is confident about everything.

C.H. Spurgeon



Confidence Confidence placed in another often compels confidence in return.

Livy



Confidence To succeed in life we need only two things – ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain



Conflict Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.



Conformity The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, but in

conformity.

Rollo May



Conformity Imitation lies at the root of most human actions. A respectable person is

one who conforms to custom. People are called good when they do as

others do.

Anatole France



Conformity A society that puts more of a premium on outward conformity than

character development will be successful in preserving neither.

Stephen Chavez



Confusion Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice and set bad

examples.



Confusion The more a person is confused by what you say the more they will agree

with you.

Albert Einstein



Conquest God‘s delight is received upon surrender not awarded upon conquest.







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Max Lucado



Conscience A clear conscience is a soft pillow.



Conscience There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

French proverb



Conscience I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as

‗conscience‘…Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

Adolf Hitler



Conscience Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings



Conscience The human voice at its loudest can never reach as fas as the still small

voice of conscience.

Mathatma Ghandi



Conscience Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be

looking.

H.L. Mencken



Conscience Reason deceives us: conscience, never.

Jean Jacques Rousseau



Conscience The conscience is God‘s fingerprint, proof of His existence.

Max Lucado



Conscience There is no substitute for conscience – unless it‘s knowing you‘re being

watched.



Conscience Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Budd Schulberg



Conscience A person‘s best boss is a well-trained conscience.



Conscience Do not put a comma where conscience dictates a full stop.



Conscience A clear conscience is often the sign of a bad memory.



Conscience Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the

proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith



Conscience Man‘s conscience is the oracle of God

Lord Byron



Conscience Conscience is the thing that aches when everything else feels good.

Renato Ditomo









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Conscience The man with the approval of his own conscience has a powerful ally.



Conscience A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.



Conscience Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those

who do not wish to hear it.

Samuel Butler





Consensus What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I

stand for consensus"?

Margaret Thatcher



Consent No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Consequence Happiness is a reward – not a consequence.

Robert Green Ingersoll



Consequences Present choices determine future consequences.



Consequences His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which

circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado



Consequences Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of

wise men.

Thomas Huxley



Conservative I think that Christians should be both conservative and liberal: as

conservative as possible with themselves and as liberal as possible with

others.

Andy Nash



Conservatism` What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried,

against the new and untried?

Abraham Lincoln



Conservatism Conservatism means standing in the flow of the status quo.

Francis Schaeffer



Consistency Consistency isn‘t always good especially if you‘re consistently wrong.



Contentment When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it

elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld



Contentment Guilt is concerned with the past, worry is concerned about the future, but

contentment enjoys the present.









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Contentment He who has enough with contentment is rich, but he who has wealth

without contentment is poor.



Contentment Contentment comes dressed in joy‘s bright colours.



Control Nothing under His control can ever be out of control.

Charles Swindoll



Control Crisis feeds on the illusion that control can bring the situation under

control.

Anne Wilson Schael & Diane Fassel



Control People complain most about things over which they have no control.



Control The ‗control‘ culture provides a comfortable haven for the authoritarian

personality.

Celia Hahn



Controversy The ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she stands in

moments of comfort or convenience, but where he or she stands in times

of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King



Conversation Those whose conversation lacks depth usually make up for it in length.



Conversation Most people couldn‘t start a conversation if the weather didn‘t change

once in a while.



Conversation Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four

simple words - ―I do not know‖.



Conversation Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a

conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Conversation There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are

intersecting monologues, that is all.

Rebecca West



Conversation The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right

place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at a tempting moment.

Dorothy Nevill



Conversationalist A good conversationalist is anyone who can talk louder than the stereo.



Conversion God encourages U-turns.



Conversion To see sin without grace is despair; to see grace without sin is

arrogance; to see them in tandem is conversion.

Max Lucado







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Conviction Conviction is a belief that we hold that holds us.



Conviction A thinker cannot divest himself of real convictions, and it is futile to pose

as having none.

Edgar Sheffield Brightman



Conviction Guilt may burden the heart but God seeks conviction.



Conviction Conviction is worthless until it is converted into conduct.



Cooking The difference between a chef and a cook is the difference between a

wife and a prostitute. Cooks do meals for people they know and love.

Chefs do it anonymously for anyone who‘s got the price.

A.A. Gill



Co-operation Teamwork is the essence of life.

Pat Riley



Co-operation All for one and one for all.

Alexandre Dumas



Co-operation In the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice

the distance of any bird flying alone.



Corruption Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal

from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson



Counsel Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of

youth.

Desiderata



Counts Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that

counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein



Courage Courage is fear that has said its prayers.



Courage Fear takes ignorance and uncertainty to new depths. Faith takes hope

and courage to unimagined heights.



Courage Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.



Courage Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams



Courage Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemmingway







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Courage Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage

you can‘t practise any other virtue consistently. You can practise any

virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou



Courage Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which

guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill



Courage Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.



Courage Be bold in what you stand for but careful in what you fall for.



Courage To ignore an insult is the true test of moral courage.



Courage The test of courage is to be in the minority; the test of tolerance is to be

in the majority.



Courage Courage is always something you have until you need it.



Courage Courage is the quality it takes to look at yourself with candour, your

adversaries with kindness, and your setbacks with serenity.



Courage All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney



Courage Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart



Courage Disappointment kills courage and sinks hope.



Courage The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, but in

conformity.

Rollo May



Courage Courage is an outgrowth of who we are.

Max Lucado



Courage The only courage that m matters is the kind that gets you from one

moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin



Courage Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one‘s courage.

Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)



Courage It is impossible to discover new oceans without the courage to lose sight

of the shore.









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Courage Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and

conquering it.

Richter



Courage There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery o stand

up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

J.K. Rowling



Courage Success is never final, and failure never fatal; its courage that counts



Courage Fear carries a man farther than courage - but not in the same direction.



Courage Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the

fragile blossom that opens in the snow

Alice Mackenzie Swaim



Courage Whatever you do, you need courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Courtesy Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.



Courtesy Courtesy costs nothing, yet it buys things that are priceless.



Courtesy Courtesy is said to be contagious, and what we need is a good epidemic.



Courtesy Courtesy is a form of consideration for others practiced by civilised

people when they have the time.



Courtesy Nothing is ever lost by courtesy; it is the cheapest of pleasures; costs

nothing and conveys much.

Erastus Wiman



Courtesy The lowest and worst have a claim to our courtesy.

John Wesley



Courtesy A little of the oil of courtesy will save a lot of friction.



Cowardice Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of

ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemmingway



Creativity Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Donatella Versace



Credit We‘d be amazed how much more was accomplished if nobody cared

who got the credit.



Credit The Lord can do great things through those who don‘t care who gets the

credit.









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Credit There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a

straw who get the credit.

C.E. Montague



Credit A good deal of good can be done in the world if one is not too careful

who gets the credit

Jesuit motto



Credit The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the

credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There‘s far less

competition.

Dwight Morrow



Creed The right heart with the wrong creed is better than the right creed with

the wrong heart.

Max Lucado



Crisis Those who taste God‘s presence have declared spiritual bankruptcy, and

are aware of their spiritual crisis.

Max Lucado



Crisis Whatever the crisis, the fire of love will overcome it.

Mahatma Ghandi



Crisis Crisis feeds on the illusion that control can bring the situation under

control.

Anne Wilson Schael & Diane Fassel



Crisis There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger



Crisis When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters –

one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Saul David Alinsky



Critic A critic doesn‘t always know, he merely thinks he knows.



Critic Remember a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!

Jean Sibelius



Critic A critic is a man who knows the way but can‘t drive the car.

Kenneth Tynan



Critic A critic is a bundle of biases held together loosely by a sense of taste.

Whitney Balliett



Critic A statue has never been set up in honour of a critic.



Critical How much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli







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Criticism Criticism is valuable only when it is based on wisdom, and its noblest

function is to point out beauties, not to pick out flaws.



Criticism For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.



Criticism Criticism tests a man‘s strength, flattery finds his weakness.



Criticism Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis



Criticism Praise can give criticism a lead around the first turn and still win the race.

Bern Williams



Criticism People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham



Criticism To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard



Criticism The goal of criticism is to leave the person criticised feeling that they

have been helped.



Criticism And fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most do.

Dale Carnegie



Criticism Criticism should always leave a person with the feeling that he has been

helped.



Criticism He has a right to criticise who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln



Criticism Criticising another‘s garden doesn‘t keep the weeds out of your own.



Criticism The person who is never criticised is not breathing.

Vern McLellan



Criticism Never fear criticism when you are right; never ignore criticism when you

are wrong.



Criticism Criticism is like dynamite. It has its place but should be handled by

experts.



Criticism You won‘t need to criticise yourself, others will be glad to do that for you.



Criticism Criticism is one thing most of us think is more blessed to give rather than

receive.



Criticism Don‘t criticise the person who talks to himself – he may be the best

company available.







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Criticism The devil‘s substitute for God‘s rejoicing is criticism. God‘s antidote for

the devil‘s poison is intercessory prayer.



Criticism Criticism is the only tool that works all the better for being blunt.



Criticism Attention men: Before you criticise another, look closely at your sister‘s

brother!



Criticism Stack every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.



Criticism No man, nor body of men, is good enough, or wise enough, to dispense

with the tonic of criticism.

Aldous Huxley



Criticism Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticism.

Aldous Huxley



Cross God grades on the cross, not the curve.



Cross The cross is the key that unlocks the gate to heaven.



Cross The cross was an act simultaneously of punishment and amnesty,

severity and grace, justice and mercy.

John Stott



Cross The cross is the last argument of God.

Charles Spurgeon



Cross It took more than nails to hold Jesus on the cross. His love was sufficient

even if there were no nails.



Cry Don‘t cry because it‘s over, smile because it happened.



Culture Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it‘s popular, it‘s not culture.

If everyone loves it, it‘s not original.

Vivienne Westwood



Curiosity Charity covers a multitude of sins, but curiosity soon uncovers them

again.



Cynic A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not

as they ought to be.

Ambrose Bierce

Cynic A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of

nothing.

Oscar Wilde



Cynic There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from

knowing nothing to believing nothing.







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Maya Angelou



Cynic Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies

somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.

Hugh Macleod



Cynicism Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf



Cynicism Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman



Cynicism Cynicism is the practice of reducing every hero to zero.



Dangerous Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and

conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr



Dare There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing



Darkness The darkest hour is only sixty minutes.



Darkness It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Darkness Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the

light to burn brighter.

Bono



Day Man may have his hour but God will have His day.

Fulton J. Sheen



Death Death can never take away more than love can leave behind.



Death The death of hope leads to the hope of death.



Death I‘m not afraid to die. I just don‘t want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen



Death Death delivers no second chance.



Death When we die, we leave behind all that we have and take with us all that

we are.



Death Death is the greatest leveller of human achievement.

David Tait



Death Live so that when death comes, the mourners will outnumber the

cheerers.







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Death If the rich could hire people to die for them, the poor could make a

wonderful living.



Death The dead are altogether asleep, and think of nothing. They lie, not

reckoning days nor years, but when awakened will seem to themselves

to have slept scarcely a minute.

Martin Luther



Death One death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic.

Joseph Stalin



Death When you‘re dead, you‘re dead. That‘s it.

Marlene Dietrich



Debate Debate implies confrontation and is energy intensive. To debate is at

least to question if not to insult a position the other has taken. It is

adversarial by nature.

Ian Hartley



Deceit The most tragic death that occurs from deceit is our witness.

Max Lucado



Decency Decency is inadequacy‘s conspiracy of silence.



Deception An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

John Gay



Deception You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of

the people all the time; but you can‘t fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln (Also attributed to Phineas Barnum)



Deception O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.

Sir Walter Scott



Decision The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to

burn.

David Russell



Decision Don‘t spend a dollar‘s worth of time on a ten-cent decision.



Decision The first sep to getting the things you want is this: decide what you want.

Ben Stein



Decision The biggest impediment for many in delaying a decision for Christ is the

mistaken belief that the present ‗Age of Grace‘ will never end.

David Tait



Decision Almost everyone knows the difference between right and wrong; some

people just have to make decisions.







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Decision Nothing great was ever done without an act of decision.



Decision The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Mike Krzyzewski



Decision Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the

problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Robert Schuller



Decision How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to

be someone.

Coco Chanel



Decision Sometimes the best decision is to decide not to decide.



Deeds Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Peter Marshall



Deeds There are a lot of people who never forget a kind deed – if they did it.



Deeds A kind deed often does more than a large gift.



Deeds A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden of nought but weeds.



Deeds Love and desire are the spirit‘s wings to great deeds.

Goethe



Deeds The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

Patti Labelle



Deeds He who does a kind deed should be silent; he who has received one

should shout it from the housetop.



Defeat Defeat is only for those who accept it.



Defeat Victory has a hundred fathers, but no one wants to recognise defeat as

his own.

Count Galeazzo Ciano



Defend Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold Glasow



Definition Definitions are the world‘s most ruthless dictators.



Definition A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within the wall of words.

Samuel Butler



Delay Delay is preferable to error.









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Delay A wrong decision isn‘t forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a

delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

J.K. Galbraith



Delegation A wise leader delegates, the inept dictate.



Deliberation He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on

one leg.



Delight God‘s delight is received upon surrender not awarded upon conquest.

Max Lucado



Delight Sacred delight derives from stubborn joy.

Max Lucado



Democracy Democracy does not include the privilege of destroying democracy.

Vural Savas (Turkish federal prosecutor)



Democracy The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of

democracy.

Theodore H. White



Democracy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for

appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw



Denial Denial and dismissal are part of God‘s grief therapy.

Max Lucado



Dentopedalogy Dentopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your

foot it in. I‘ve been practising it for years.

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh



Dentopedalogy Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you

won‘t have a leg to stand on.



Depression When you‘re depressed there are no molehills,

Randall Jarrell



Depression Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depression.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Depression Depression is frozen anger.

Sigmund Freud



Depression It‘s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it‘s a depression when

you lose yours.

Harry S. Truman









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Depression Recession is when you have to tighten the belt. Depression is when

there is no belt to tighten.

Boris Pankin



Desire When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Milan Kundera



Desire Love and desire are the spirit‘s wings to great deeds.

Goethe



Desires Either we conform the truth to our desires or we conform our desires to

the truth.

Kierkegaard



Desires When my wants line up with His desires, things happen.

David Tait.



Despair Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene



Despair To see sin without grace is despair; to see grace without sin is

arrogance; to see them in tandem is conversion.

Max Lucado



Desperation When you get to your wit‘s end, you‘ll find God lives there.





Destiny Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is matter of choice. It is not a thing

to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan



Destiny It is not the chances we take, it‘s the choices we make that determines

our destiny.



Destiny Every person is an architect to a greater or lesser degree of their own

destiny.



Destiny Choice is to the future as character is to destiny.



Destiny Today‘s choices decree our eternal destiny.



Destiny Yes and No are the two most important words that you will ever say.

These are the two words that determine your destiny in life.



Details Beware of the man who won‘t be bothered by details.

William Feather



Determination Climb ev‘ry mountain, ford ev‘ry stream, Follow ev‘ry rainbow, till you find

your dream!

Oscar Hammerstein







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Detour It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Theodore Reik



Detour A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.



Detour Sometimes it‘s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to

come back a short distance.

Edward Albee



Devil The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his

future.



Devil In God‘s presence, the devil is a wimp. Satan is to God what a mosquito

is to an atomic bomb.

Max Lucado



Devil Never give the devil a ride – he will always want to drive.



Devil If you run ahead of Jesus, you meet the devil alone.

Ed Eigenberg



Dialogue Dialogue is about relationship, about understanding other people. It is at

the heart of friendship. It is the language of intimacy, the language of

lovers. It affirms and empowers, it seeks to build understanding of the

other.

Ian Hartley



Diet A diet is something you keep putting off while you keep putting on.



Diet If at first you don‘t recede, diet, diet, and diet again.



Diet Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.



Diet The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it‘s bad for you.

Isaac Asimov



Difference The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials

but the ones with the concern.

Max Lucado



Differences If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the

world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy



Difficulty Everyone can see difficulties in opportunities, but a wise person

discovers opportunities in difficulties.

Ron D. Barbaro



Difficulty Difficulties to a Christian are only miracles that have not yet happened.







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Difficulty Some days are difficult, but can you remember any day when you failed

to survive?



Difficulty The best way out of a difficulty is through it.



Difficulty We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on our difficulties.

Oswald Chambers



Difficulty Kites fly highest against the wind.

Winston Churchill



Difficulty The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson



Difficulty Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are

unconquerable.

Theodore N. Vail



Difficulty In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Schweitzer



Difficulty There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or

you alter yourself to meet them.

Phyllis Bottome



Dignity Our dignity is not in what we do but in who we are.



Dignity The person who stands on their dignity finds they have a poor footing.



Dignity When boasting ends there dignity begins.



Dignity I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Winston Churchill



Dignity Many a person gets a reputation for dignity when they are merely

suffering from a still neck.



Dignity A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.

Holland



Dilemma Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas,

Mencken



Diligence Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Cervantes



Diplomacy Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.



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Diplomacy Diplomacy may be defined as telling your boss he has an open mind

instead of telling him he has holes in his head.



Diplomacy A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that

you actually look forward to the trip.

Caskie Stinnett



Diplomacy Diplomacy is the art of saying ―good doggie‖ while looking for a bigger

stick.



Direction If you don‘t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Bert Connell



Direction To receive the direction from God you must be able to receive the

correction from God.



Direction When you can‘t change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails.

Max DePree



Direction Effort and direction are not enough without purpose and direction.



Direction We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction.

General Douglas MacArthur



Dirt Dirt is only matter out of place.

John Chipman Gray



Disappointment Life‘s disappointments are opportunity‘s hidden appointments.



Disappointment Disappointment kills courage and sinks hope.



Disappointment If you don‘t want to be devastated by discouragement then don‘t meditate

on your disappointments.

Joyce Meyer



Disappointment The most disappointed people in the world are those who want

everything that is coming to them and get it.



Disappointment We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite

hope.

Martin Luther King Jr



Disasters God‘s greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters.

Max Lucado



Discipleship Service and costly discipleship, rather than emotional satisfaction and

comfort, is the consistent evidence of true encounter with God.



Discipleship Discipleship is centred upon giving rather than receiving.







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Donald Tait



Discipleship A lobotomy is not a prerequisite of discipleship.

Max Lucado



Discipleship Discipleship is letting the Lord have His way even with my mind and

emotions.



Discipleship Discipleship is being Jesus to others.

Donald Tait



Discipline The man who can remember what he learned at his mother‘s knee was

probably bent over at the time.



Discipline Parents who are afraid to put their foot down have children who step on

their toes.



Discipline Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Cullen Hightower



Discipline Discipline does not break a child‘s spirit half as much as the lack of it

breaks a parent‘s heart.



Discouragement Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of

things but the absence of vision.



Discouragement When you feel discouraged, remember that God chose you for His very

own purpose, however unlikely a candidate you feel.

Joyce Meyer



Discouragement Never be discouraged when failures come to light - Just use them for

stepping-stones and make a stronger fight.

Loretta Inman



Discouragement If you don‘t want to be devastated by discouragement then don‘t meditate

on your disappointments.

Joyce Meyer



Discouragement You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.



Discovery There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis,

then you‘ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the

hypothesis, then you‘ve made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi



Discovery The discovery that your discovery has already been discovered is

surprisingly common.

Stephen Stigler



Discovery The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.







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Arthur Koestler



Discretion There‘s only a small difference between keeping your chin up and

sticking your neck out. Survival depends on knowing where one ends

and the other begins.



Discretion Discretion is putting two and two together and keeping your mouth shut.



Discretion Discretion is closing your eyes to a situation before someone else closes

them for you.



Discretion Discretion too often marks the end of discovery.



Discretion Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Bacon



Disposition The world‘s most destructive acid comes from a sour disposition.



Dissuade No discovery with disillusion Him; no rebellion will dissuade Him. He

loves you with an everlasting love.

Max Lucado



Divorce Divorce is the hash made from domestic scraps.



Doing Fore every reason there is for doing something, there are three for not

doing it.



Doctrine Theology: one man‘s opinion of what the Bible says; Doctrine: the

consensus of the church as to what the Bible teaches; Religion: the

impact of what the Bible has to say upon the daily life of the individual.



Doubt Doubt sees the obstacles Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest

night Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step Faith soars on

high. Doubt questions ‗Who believes?‘ Faith answers, ‗I‘.



Doubt Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.



Doubt Doubts don‘t separate doubters from God‘s love.

Max Lucado



Doubt Doubt is the skeleton in the closet of faith.

Max Lucado



Doubt Who never doubted never half-believed.

Gamaliel Bailey



Doubt Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who

would need faith at all?

Max Lucado









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Doubt Doubt may cloud the future but hope dispels the clouds.



Doubt Those who honestly confront their doubts often find themselves growing

into a faith that transcends the doubts.

Max Lucado



Doubt God appears far less threatened by doubt than does His church.

Max Lucado



Dreams All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney



Dreams You see things and you say ―Why?‖ But I dream things that never were,

and I say ―Why not!‖

George Bernard Shaw



Dreams Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau



Dreams There is nothing like dreams to create the future.

Victor Hugo



Dreams The key difference between a dreamer and a visionary is application.

David Tait



Dreams A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit.

Joe L. Griffith



Dreams Never surrender your dream to noisy negatives.



Dreams Dreams don‘t work unless you do.



Dreams Perspiration turns dreams into reality.



Dreams Don‘t dream up thousands of reasons why you can‘t do what you want to;

find one reason why you can.



Dreams If you can dream it, you can do it.



Dreams The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Will Smith



Dreams There are no impossible dreams, just impatient people.



Dreams Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely

insane every night of our lives.

William Dement



Dreams Those who dream by day are cognisant of many things which escape

those who dream only by night.







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Edgar Allan Poe



Dreams God‘s gifts put man‘s best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Browning



Dreams Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

Francis F. Coppola



Drinking Drinking is the only thing you don‘t get better at the more you do it.

J.R. Moehringer



Duty Don‘t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Corrie ten Boom



Duty Duty is a matter of the mind. Commitment is a matter of the heart.



Duty Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

John Fowles



Duty Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Phillip Brooks



Duty England expects that every man will do his duty.

Horatio Nelson



Duty A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations.

Bertrand Russell



Early He that riseth late must trot all day.

Benjamin Franklin



Earth Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was

loaned to you by your children.

Kenyan Proverb



Ease Ease is the enemy of ambition.



Eating When it comes to eating you can sometimes help yourself more by

helping yourself to less.



Economics A careful study of economics reveals that the best time to buy anything

was last year.



Economy Economy is going without something you do want in case you should,

some day, want something you probably don‘t want.

Anthony Hope



Economy He who will not economise will have to agonise.

Confucius









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Ecstasy Ecstasy is full, deep involvement in life.

John Lovell



Education Perhaps the most valuable result of eduction is the ability to make

yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether

you like it or not.

Thomas Huxley



Education Education is more than filling a child with facts. It starts with posing

questions.

D.T. Max



Education A fool‘s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and

art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw



Education Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to

distinguish what is worth reading.

G M Trevelyan



Education The great aim of education is action.

Herbert Spencer



Education Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is

what you get from not reading it.



Efficiency God has put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things.

Where I‘m up to means that I will never die!



Effort If you don‘t scale the mountain, you can‘t see the view.



Effort No farmer ever ploughed a field by turning it over in his mind.

George E. Woodbury



Effort We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.



Effort Effort is the highest common factor in every enterprise.



Effort Those who leave effort out of their calculations rarely get the right

answer.



Effort Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.



Ego It‘s great to believe in oneself, but don‘t be too easily convinced.



Ego If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are over dressed.



Ego He who thinks only of number one, should remember that it is next to

nothing.









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Ego God can do more for a dead corpse than for a live ego.



Ego A bruised ego leads to more doubt than a dearth of evidence.



Ego When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin



Ego A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Anna Quindlen



Ego If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.



Egotism Egotism is the anaesthetic that nature gives to deaden the pain of

mediocrity.



Egotist An egotist is a person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.



Egotist An egotist is one who is me-deep in conversation.



Egotists There are only two kinds of egotists – those who admit it and the rest of

us.



Egotists The nice thing about egotists is that they don‘t talk about other people.

Lucille S. Harper



Eloquence The greatness of a leader is in his humility before God, not in his

eloquence before men.



Eloquence Continual eloquence is tedious.

Blaise Pascal



Eloquence The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that

which delays them

David Lloyd George



Emotion Emotion may win audiences, but it generally loses arguments.



Empires The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill



Encouragement There is no limit to the propulsive effect of a pat on the back.



Encouragement We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, and angrily.

Celeste Holm



Encouragement The ability to encourage others is one of life‘s greatest gifts.

Henry Ford



Encouragement Encouragement is the best known cure for inertia.









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Encouragement Patting a fellow in the back is the best way to get a chip off his shoulder.



Encouragement I have never seen a man who do real work except under the stimulus of

encouragement and enthusiasm, and the approval of the people for

whom he is working.

Charles Schwab



Encouragement People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be.



Encouragement To encourage others is one of life‘s greatest assets.



Encouragement Encouragement after correction is like sunshine after shower.



Endeavour Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.

Samuel Johnson



Endurance Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Enemies The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.

Abraham Lincoln



Enemies See your enemies, not as God‘s failures, but as God‘s projects.

Max Lucado



Enemies A wise man gets more use from his enemies that a fool from his friends.



Enemies Avoid being what your enemies say your are; try to be what your friends

think you are.



Enemies He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Oscar Wilde



Enemies Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu



Enthusiasm Skill is an asset, enthusiasm a necessity.



Enthusiasm The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.



Enthusiasm Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Bulmer



Enthusiasm Enthusiasm carries the spirit towards sublime thoughts, surprising and

true.

De Piles



Enthusiasm Age may wrinkle the face but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.









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Enthusiasm People can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited

enthusiasm.

Charles Schwab



Enthusiasm Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come to watch you burn.

John Wesley



Enthusiasm A man dies for the first time, the day after he loses his enthusiasm.

Honore de Balzac



Enthusiasm A person incapable of enthusiasm is a mediocre person.

Honore de Balzac



Enthusiasm Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without that collective spark of

enthusiasm.



Enthusiasm Enthusiasm surfaces when you strive with dedication towards worthy

goals. And it is enthusiasm that frees the energy and the power.

Woodrow Wilson



Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever

accomplished.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Enthusiasm All great moments in world history are due to the triumph of enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Enthusiasm The worst bankruptcy in the world is the man who lost his enthusiasm.



Enthusiasm Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of

anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the

day.



Enthusiasm Be the most enthusiastic person you know.



Enthusiasm Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Enthusiasm Enthusiasm is an inner fire that fuels the furnace of achievement.

William Arthur Ward



Envy One cannot be envious and happy at the same time.



Envy Envy shoots at others but hits itself.



Envy Envy and wrath shorten the life.



Envy In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the

prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich







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Envy If you envy another, you admit your own inferiority.



Envy Love looks through a telescope; envy though a microscope.



Envy There is perhaps no more subtle force at work among Christians than

envy even though it leads to nothing but dead-end streets.

Charles Swindoll



Epitaph Business as usual is a motto that is always in danger of becoming an

epitaph.



Equality All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell



Err To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope



Error An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri-Frederic Amiel



Error Crooked things may be as stiff and inflexible as straight: and men may

be as positive in error as in truth.

Edward John Phelps



Error Delay is preferable to error.



Error Truth rejects with scorn every semblance of coercion; error greets with

outstretched hands any and all forms of suppression and oppression.

C.H. Edwards



Error The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is

identical with the discovery of truth – that the error and truth are simply

opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it

is cured on one error, is usually another error, and maybe one worse that

the first one.

H.L. Mencken



Error A man‘s errors are his portals of discovery.



Esteem What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly.

Thomas Paine



Eternity People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity.

Thomas Kelly



Eternity Saying ―No‖ to God is refusing His offer of eternity.



Eternity How would you like to spend eternity – Smoking or Non-smoking?









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Eternity Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is

a night that has no sunrise.



Eternity The real measure of a man‘s wealth is how much he has invested in

eternity.



Eternity Time is but the gateway to eternity.



Eternity Today‘s instant society has no thought for eternity.



Evangelism The church that doesn‘t evangelise will fossilise.



Even the surest way of remaining at odds with people is to get even with them.



Everything I am not young enough to know everything.

Sir James Barry



Everything If you can‘t have the best of everything make the best of everything you

have.



Evil All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke



Evil Of two evils choose neither.



Evil Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil.



Evil In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as in

cooperation with good.

Mahatma Ghandi



Evil The person who cannot be angry at evil usually lacks enthusiasm for

good.



Evil Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ

enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

G.K. Chesterton



Evolution It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an

admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then

pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into

everything.

G.K. Chesterton



Exaggeration People exaggerate the value of things they haven‘t got.

George Bernard Shaw



Exaggeration The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain









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Exaggeration An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahil Gibran



Example Kids learn more from example than from anything you say. I‘m

convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to

watch what you do.

Jane Pauley (1950 -)



Example Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer



Example Children of all ages have one thing in common – they close their ears to

advice and open their eyes to example.



Example A good example can overcome a lot of bad advice.



Example Few things are harder to put up with that the annoyance of a good

example.

Mark Twain



Excellence Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better.

Pat Riley



Excellence Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren‘t used to an environment

where excellence is expected.

Stephen Jobs



Excellence The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is

childish.

Max Lucado



Excellence We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle



Excellence Excellence is going far beyond the call of duty and doing your best in

everything.



Excellence Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington



Excellence The dullard‘s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion

that they will come to a bad end.

Max Beerbohm



Excellence Excellence is not a skill but an attitude.



Exercise Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord.



Excess Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from

acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.







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W. Somerset Maugham



Excess Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Cicero



Excuse The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds

an excuse.



Excuse The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never

excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher



Excuse He who is good at making excuses, is seldom good for much else.



Excuse Look out: I‘m acting under the influence of human nature.



Excuse Those who make excuses make nothing else.



Excuse Never give an excuse that you would not be willing to accept.



Excuse An excuse is a statement given to cover up a duty not well done, or not

done at all.



Excuse Two wrongs don‘t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Thomas Szasz



Excuse An excuse is a thin slice of falsehood stretched tightly over a boldface lie.



Excuse Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.



Exercise Many people never exercise except when sleeping or resting.



Exercise Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich



Exercise The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took

exercise.

Peter O‘Toole



Exercise The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the

exercises, walking is best.

Thomas Jefferson.



Exercise Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don‘t need it: if you are sick you

shouldn‘t take it.

Henry Ford



Expectancy Faith gives us courage to face the present with confidence and the future

with expectancy.









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Expectation You have capacities in excess of your expectations!



Expediency The sooner you fall behind, the more time you‘ll have to catch up.



Expenses It‘s not hard to meet expenses….they‘re everywhere.



Experience Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what

happens to you.

Aldous Huxley



Experience Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde



Experience Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don‘t

speak.



Experience Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from

the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent

disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams



Experience Experience teaches you to recognise a mistake when you‘ve made it

again.



Experience Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lessons

afterwards.



Experience There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to

apply.

Josh Billings



Experience Learning comes by experience but the wisdom of God by revelation.



Experience The trouble with learning from experience is that the test comes first, and

the lesson afterwards.



Experience A person who has an experience is not at a disadvantage with someone

who has an argument.



Experience Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.



Experience Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

Albert Einstein



Experience Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.



Experience A little experience is better than a lot of theory.



Experience Considering what experience costs, it should be the best teacher.









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Experience Experience is a wonderful thing - it enables you to recognise a mistake

when you make it again.



Experience Experience is a hard teacher because he gives the test first, the lesson

afterwards.



Experience By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon



Experience Education is when you read the fine print: experience is what you get

when you don‘t.

Pete Seeger



Experience Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad

judgment.



Experience The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines

only on the waves behind us.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Experience Experience is something you don‘t get until just after you need it.



Experience We had the experience but missed the meaning.

T.S. Eliot



Experience There is..at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from

experience.

T.S. Eliot



Experience Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.



David T. Wolf



Experience Experience isn‘t interesting till it begins to repeat itself – in fact, till it does

that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen



Expert An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Nicholas Butler



Expression Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Janet Lane



Extremity When you get to your wit‘s end, you‘ll find God there.



Face The best way to save face is to keep the bottom half shut.



Facts A religion that is afraid of the facts is doomed.

Henry Emerson Fosdick.









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Facts Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit

nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Talleyrand



Facts Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley



Failure If at first you don‘t succeed, try, try, again. Don‘t think of it as failure,

Think of it as timed- release success.

Robert Orben (1927 -)



Failure Failure always follows the path of least persistence.



Failure There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard

work, learning from failure.

Gen. Colin L. Powell



Failure Failure isn‘t falling down, it‘s staying down.



Failure Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Henry Ford



Failure We have 40 million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

Rudyard Kipling



Failure Drifting through life without aim or purpose is the first cause of failure.



Failure There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is

the most successful.



Failure Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure…. make sure you are

always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane



Failure The surest way not to fail is to be determined to succeed.



Failure Failure doesn‘t mean God has abandoned you. It means God has a

better idea.



Failure The Lord loves us – perhaps most of all – when we fail and try again.

Emilie Griffin



Failure Failure can be divided into those who thought and never did and into

those who did and never thought.

Reverend W.A. Nance



Failure Success always occurs in private: failure in full view.



Failure Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Thomas Edison







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Failure Never be discouraged when failures come to light - Just use them for

stepping-stones and make a stronger fight.

Loreta Inman



Failure Positive thinking without positive faith will result in positive failure.



Failure My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are

content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln



Failure I don‘t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please

everybody.

Bill Cosby



Failure I evidently knew more about economics than my examiners.

John Maynard Keynes



Failure The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.

Charles F. Kettering



Failure Failure is often the first rung on the ladder of success.

David Tait



Failure A person may have many failings and yet be very far from being a failure.

Dale Galloway



Failure Failure requires no preparation.



Failure It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing

nothing.



Failure Failure is never the final chapter in the book of life unless you give up

and quit.

Dale Galloway



Failure A man may make many mistakes, but is not a failure until he starts

blaming someone else for them.



Failure Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Mike Murdock



Failure The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.



Fairness In this life fairness seems to be a will ‗o the wisp ideal – always hoped but

rarely obtained.



Faith Faith is an utter abandonment to the will of God, and a confidence that

God‘s plan is best.

Skip Bell







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Faith I believe in light though there be darkness,

I believe in God though He be silent.



Faith Without prayer, faith is without power, insipid, even dead.

John Calvin



Faith Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities of God‘s faithfulness.



Faith Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation

may not come that far, but none comes further.



Faith Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking it so

much we act on it.



Faith Faith turns the hope of our salvation into the experience of God‘s love.

Donald Tait



Faith Faith gives us courage to face the present with confidence and the future

with expectancy.



Faith Without an element of risk, there is no faith.

Max Lucado



Faith I‘d rather exercise faith than know its definition.

Thomas A‘Kempis



Faith Faith is something like electricity. You can‘t see it but you can see the

light.



Faith The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear.

Max Lucado



Faith Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.



Faith Faith is going beyond what the eye can see.



Faith Genuine faith revels in godly truth, but human faith is dependent upon

earthly knowledge.

David Tait



Faith Fear forces, Love leads, Faith follows.



Faith He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend loses much

more; he who loses faith, loses all.



Faith Faith is reason gone courageous.

Max Lucado



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Faith Brethren, be great believers. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven,

but great faith will bring heaven to your souls.



Faith The highest purpose for faith is not to change my circumstances but to

change me.



Faith Faith is the gaze of the soul on the living God.



Faith Our faith should be our steering wheel not our spare tyre.



Faith All great leaders have one common spiritual gift – faith.

Elmer Towns



Faith Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore



Faith True faith is like a kite; contrary winds only raise it higher.



Faith The law of belief says that whatever you believe, with feeling, becomes

your reality.

Brian Tracy



Faith Humour is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr



Faith Faith sees by the ears.



Faith Faith is the audacity of hope.

Hermine L. Graham



Faith Faith is spiritualised imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher



Faith A gram of faith is worth a tonne of speculation.



Faith Positive thinking without positive faith will result in positive failure.



Faith It‘s easy to have faith looking at a miracle, but the real test of faith is

when there are no signs.



Faith Faith grows through a conviction of truth rather than in the understanding

of knowledge.

David Tait



Faith Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.



Faith Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Martin Luther









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Faith Faith is a living, daring confidence in God‘s grace, so sure and certain

that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther



Faith Faith honours God and God honours faith.



Faith Faith is the ‗yes‘ of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one‘s life.

Martin Luther



Faith A person‘s faith is not judged by what he says about it, but by what he

does about it.



Faith You can‘t truly live by faith until you have nothing else to live on.

David Tait



Faith Faith draws the poison from every grief takes the sting from every loss

and quenches the fire of every pain.



Faith The stairway to great faith is climbed one step at a time.

David Tait



Faith Faith is the channel through which you and I receive the grace of God.

Joyce Meyer



Faith Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.



Faith Faith doesn‘t get you around trouble, it gets you through it.



Faith Faith makes all things possible; Love makes them easy.

Dwight L. Moody



Faith A life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live in.

George E. Woodberry



Faith Faith reflects our place in God, works reflect God‘s place in us.

David Tait



Faith Both faith and fear may sail into your harbour, but allow only faith to drop

anchor.



Faith To have faith is to have wings.

James M. Barrie



Faith Doubt sees the obstacles Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest

night Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step Faith soars on

high. Doubt questions ‗Who believes?‘ Faith answers, ‗I‘.



Faith Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the

improbable.

H.L. Mencken







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Faith A faith is something to die for; a doctrine is something to kill for; there is

all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn



Faith The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Faith Abandoning faith in God is the first step to enjoying life.

Maquis de Sade



Falling Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius



False A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand

things that are true.

Sir Isaac Newton



Falsehood Falsehood is never so false as when it is very nearly true.

G.K. Chesterton



Falsehood Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Edmund Burke



Falsehood Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.

George Braque



Falsehood Blunt truths cause more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope



Falsehood Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in

violence.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn



Falsehood It is a true saying that one falsehood leads easily to another.

Cicero



Fame Fame needs no fanfares.



Fame All who are unwise or unfortunate enough to rise to fame will be

misrepresented by both friend and foe.

Alister McGrath



Family We put career, money, and pleasure all ahead of family. The irony is, if

we put family first, the rest will tend to follow a lot more readily.

Harvey Mackay



Family A family altar can alter a family.









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Family As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in

which we live.

Pope John Paul II



Family A happy family is but an earlier heaven.



Family Others may change us but life begins and ends with family.



Fanatic A fanatic is one who can‘t change his mind and won‘t change the subject.

Winston Churchill



Fanaticism Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten

your aim.

George Santayana



Fanatics The problem with the world today is that fools and fanatics are always so

certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.



Fashion Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Yves Saint Laurent



Fate Our fate is not decreed by gods or stars, but by the God beyond the

stars.



Father The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth



Fault The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.



Fault A fault once denied is twice committed.



Fault There is so much h good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best

of us, to find fault with the rest of us.



Faults Faults are thick where love is thin.



Faults Some people spend their entire lives perfecting their faults.



Faults One‘s own faults are not minimised by magnifying the faults of others.



Faults All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour.



Faults Don‘t look for faults – look for remedies.



Faults There are few things more painful than to recognise one‘s own faults in

others.

John Wells



Faults Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults

of his friends.







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Henry Ward Beecher



Faults One of the greatest tragedies of the average person is the tendency to

spend out whole lives perfecting our faults.

Norman Vincent Peale



Faults All faults maybe forgiven of him who has the perfect candour.

Walt Whitman



Fear Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.



Fear Fear knocked on the door, faith opened it and there was nothing there.



Fear The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D Roosevelt



Fear Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

German proverb



Fear Fear forces; Love leads; Faith follows.



Fear Fear takes ignorance and uncertainty to new depths. Faith takes hope

and courage to unimagined heights.



Fear Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

William Shakespeare



Fear Both faith and fear may sail into your harbour, but allow only faith to drop

anchor.



Fear To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts

dead.

Bertrand Russell



Fear The greatest force for evil is fear. Fear anything and ultimately it will

become your master.



Fear Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Sewell



Fear Bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren‘t

there.

Gene Brown



Fear The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke



Fear Fear freezes the mind and stifles reason.



Fear Fear cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.







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Diane Keaton



Fear Fear carries a man farther than courage - but not in the same direction.



Feelings Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Feelings People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but

people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou



Feelings A true Christian does not put his rights before the feelings of others, or

his feelings before the rights of others.



Few Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so

few.

Winston Churchill



Fiction Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn‘t

Mark Twain



First Strive to be first – first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.



Fishing Be ye fishers of men. You catch them – He‘ll clean them.



Flattery Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency.

LA Rochefoucauld



Flattery Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings



Flattery Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke



Flattery If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don‘t

have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Alan Ayckbourn



Flattery If flattery is mixed with reason it is usually appreciated.



Follow Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

John Maxwell



Food There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw



Fool It‘s better to keep one‘s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it

and remove all doubt

Abraham Lincoln









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Fool A wise man thinks all he says; a fool says all he thinks.



Fool A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau



Fool Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell which is which.



Fool The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his

own way.

Josh Billings



Fool A person who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes, but a

person who doesn‘t ask questions is a fool forever.



Fool Nothing is foolproof to a talented fool.



Fool The problem with the world today is that fools and fanatics are always so

certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.



Fool It‘s too bad to act like a fool but it‘s worse when you‘re not acting.



Fool A fool is simply a person whose brand of folly differs from your own.



Fools Fools rush in where angels wouldn‘t even send a calling card.



Foolishness It‘s too bad to act like a fool but it‘s worse when you are not acting.



Footsteps Having a son follow in your footsteps can be disturbing, particularly when

you thought you had covered your tracks.



Forbearance There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Edmund Burke



Force Force is the last resort of every false religion.

Ellen G. White



Force To force religion on an unwilling convert is nothing less than the rape of

the soul.



Foresight Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.



Forever Forever is the love that is filled with understanding. Forever is the love

that is true and undemanding. Forever is the love that can stand the test

of time.

Dolly Parton (1946 -)



Forgetting The ability to forget is sometimes as blessed as the ability to remember.



Forgetting To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

P.T. Barnum







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Forgetting God forgets the past. Imitate Him.

Max Lucado



Forgetting Never remember what you can afford to forget.



Forgetting The best way to get even is to forget.



Forgetting It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are most likely to be

remembered.



Forgetting I would rather forgive and forget than resent and remember.



Forgetting Our Father gives and forgives. His children get and forget.



Forgetting A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the

true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard



Forgetting To err is human, to forgive takes restraint,

to forget you forgave is the mark of a saint.



Forgetting I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who

can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Chaim Herzog



Forgiveness ‗I can forgive, but I cannot forget,‘ is only another way of saying, ‗I will not

forgive.‘ Forgiveness ought be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and

burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is our greatest achievement and our highest calling.



Forgiveness The three hardest tasks in the world are...moral acts: to return love for

hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‗I was wrong‘.

Sydney Harris (1917 - 1986)



Forgiveness It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own

estimation, and yours too.

Josh Billings



Forgiveness When you have put self so wholly aside that you can be sorry for people

because they have wronged you.... then, you have forgiven.

Myrtle Reed (1874 - 1911)



Forgiveness Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.



Forgiveness He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must

himself pass.









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Forgiveness I believe any person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give

it.

Bill Clinton



Forgiveness All faults maybe forgiven of him who has the perfect candour.

Walt Whitman



Forgiveness To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was

you.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

Max Lucado



Forgiveness To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has

forgiven the inexcusable in you.

C.S. Lewis



Forgiveness Only a culture without hope cannot forgive.

Blake Morrison



Forgiveness Everyone should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of

their friends.

Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)



Forgiveness You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist

Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)



Forgiveness Unforgiveness does a great deal more damage to the vessel in which it is

stored than the object on which it is poured.



Forgiveness The less self-righteous you are, the more you will be able to forgive.

J. Phillip Epperson



Forgiveness Forgiveness is giving love when there is no reason to.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is not an occasional act - it‘s a permanent attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)



Forgiveness Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.



Forgiveness He who forgives ends the quarrel.

African Proverb



Forgiveness To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

P.T. Barnum



Forgiveness To err is human, to forgive takes restraint,

to forget you forgave is the mark of a saint.



Forgiveness It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.







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Forgiveness The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandi



Forgiveness Forgive your enemies – it messes with their heads.



Forgiveness Forgiveness lubricates the healing that both time and love bring.

David Tait



Forgiveness He who forgives first, wins.

William Rice



Forgiveness To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope



Forgiveness It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

John Dryden



Forgiveness There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings



Forgiveness Our Father gives and forgives. His children get and forget.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is my choice to live with the consequences of another‘s

offense and not to hold it against him.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is releasing us from our condemnation as Christ has

released us from His condemnation.



Forgiveness Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.

Mark Twain



Forgiveness I would rather forgive and forget than resent and remember.



Forgivers A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Ruth Bell Graham



Forsaken The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

Bruno Bettelheim



Fortune Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Cervantes



Foundation The unseen foundation determines how long the visible structure will

stand.





Fragrance A bit of fragrance clings to the hand of the one who gives flowers.

Chinese Proverb









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Fraud Fraud is deception for unlawful gain or unjust advantage.

Webster‘s Dictionary



Fraud Fraud is nothing more than the skin of truth stuffed with a lie.

Barry Minkow



Freedom Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you

ought.



Freedom Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Charles Péguy



Freedom Only very slowly and late have men come to realise that unless freedom

is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill



Freedom Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It

passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so

experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of

that precious right.

Mahatma Ghandi



Freedom Posterity: you will never know how much it \has cost my generation to

preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams



Freedom Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who things

differently.

Rosa Luxemburg



Freedom Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Cullen Hightower



Freedom The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.



Freedom For free men, any form of rule is better than the rule of thumb.



Friends We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay

young.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin



Friends A friend is one who is a ray of sunshine when you are under the weather.



Friends A friend is one who stands beside you when you‘re beside yourself.



Friends A true friend is someone who is there for you, when he‘d rather be

anywhere else.

Len Wein









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Friends A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your

heart.



Friends A friend is someone you can count on to count on you.



Friends The best vitamin for making friends is B1.



Friends A friend is some one who knows all about you and still likes you.



Friends Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream.



Friends Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will

leave footprints in your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Friends A true friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.



Friends Some people are too busy to make friends, others too lazy to make

enemies.



Friends A friend is not a person who is taken in by sham -

A friend is one who knows our faults and doesn't give a damm!



Friends You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in

other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people

interested in you.

Dale Carnegie



Friends The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he

can make.

Robert Emmet Sherwood



Friends A friend is a present you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson



Friends A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.



Friends The best antique is an old friend.



Friends There are no strangers – only friends we haven‘t met.



Friends Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Sun Tzu



Friends A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think

aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Friends Real friends are those who, when you feel you‘ve made a fool of yourself,

don‘t feel you‘ve done a permanent job.







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Friends To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.



Friends You can‘t use your friends and have them too.



Friends The road is never long between friends.



Friends Sometimes friends are just two people mad at the same person.



Friends A friend is an impregnable refuge in the strife of existence.



Friends A friend is the antidote to despair, the elixir of hope, and the tonic for

depression.



Friends A friend takes an interest in you but not a controlling one.



Friends In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

John Churton Collins



Friends Good friends are like stars….You don‘t always see them, but you know

that they are there.



Friends Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.



Friends Friends are the family you choose.

Jennifer Aniston



Friends They are rich who have friends.



Friends Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Platus



Friendship The only rose without thorns is friendship

Madeleine de Scudery (1607 - 1701)



Friendship Take time to be friendly; it is the road to happiness.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)



Friendship A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the

mountaintop and silently walks beside you in the valley.



Friendship Friendship cannot be purchased, rented or borrowed, it must be earned.



Friendship The wisest man I have ever known once said to me, ‗nine out of ten

people improve on acquaintance,‘ and I have found his words true.

Frank Swinnerton (1884 - 1982)



Friendship I set out to find a friend but couldn‘t find one; I set out to be a friend, and

friends were everywhere.









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Friendship Friendship yields dividends in proportion to the time invested.



Friendship Friendship multiplies joy and divides grief.

Henry G. Bohn (1796 - 1884)



Friendship Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person.

Having never to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pour them all

out just as they are, chaff and grain together, and a faithful hand will take

and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness,

blow the rest away.



Friendship A friend is someone you can count on to count on you.



Friendship Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art….it has no survival

value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis



Friendship The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits.



Friendship The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert



Friendship Friendship is a treasure ship anyone can launch.



Friendship Friendship is when someone brings you a ray of sunshine when you are

under the weather.



Friendship Friendship exists when someone knows all about you and still likes you.



Frustration Frustration is the difference between what you are and what you think

you are.



Future Those who know Jesus smile at the future.



Future No one can walk backward into the future.

Joseph Hergesheimer



Future Choice is to the future as character is to destiny.



Future When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who

let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what

happened.

Carol Christensen



Future The future arrives an hour at a time.



Future If there is no hope for the future, there is no purpose in the present.



Future We‘re creating the future all the time - whether we know it or not.

James Gregory Lord







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Future Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things

turn out.

Art Linkletter



Future It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction …….. especially about

the future.

Neils Bohr



Future The future that we study and plan for begins today.

Chester O. Fischer



Future The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson



Future The present interests me more than the past and the future more than

the present.

Benjamin Disraeli



Future Some people stay so far in the past that the future is gone before they

get there.



Future We lose the joy of living in the present when we worry about the future



Future God never reminds us of the past but always presents the future.



Future The future has several names. For the weak it is impossible. For the

faint-hearted it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant it is the

ideal.

Victor Hugo



Future The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln



Future Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie Ten Boom



Future Look to the future; there is no road back to yesterday.

Oswald Chambers



Future Doubt may cloud the future but hope dispels the clouds.



Future The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Future Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present

controls the past.

George Orwell









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Future God doesn‘t want us to know the future but to know the One who knows

the future.



Future Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius



Future The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become

obvious.

Theodore Levitt



Future The future belongs to those who are preparing for it today.

Malcolm X



Future The future is the time when you‘ll wish you‘d done what you weren‘t doing

now.



Future The future is here. It‘s just not widely distributed yet.

William Gibson



Future We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to

spend the rest of our lives there.



Future You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke



Future Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past and

present are certain to miss the future.

John F Kennedy



Future Faith gives us courage to face the present with confidence and the future

with expectancy.



Future When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more

happiness.

Nicole Kidman



Future Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.



Gambling Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of

mischief.

George Washington



Gambling Gambling is the son of avarice, but the father of despair.



Gambling All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of others,

involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

Richard Whately



Gardening Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration.

Lou Erickson







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Generosity Greed I‘ve often regretted; generosity never.

Max Lucado



Generosity Generosity has more to do with outlook than income.



Generosity We‘d all like the reputation for generosity, but we‘d all like to buy it

cheap.

Michael Gates



Generosity Don‘t think people judge your generosity by the amount of advice you

give away.



Generosity Jesus never has the person until He has the purse.



Generosity Generous people are rarely mentally ill.

Dr. Jarl Menninger



Genius A genius is someone who shoots at a target no one else sees and hits it.



Genius Genius survives hardship but succumbs to inconvenience.



Genius Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison



Genius The essence of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age.

Thomas Huxley



Gentleness Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

St. Francis of Assisi



Gift What you are is God‘s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.



Gifts God‘s gifts are never loans; they are always deposits.



Gifts God‘s gifts put man‘s best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Browning



Gilding Gilding an unlikely story can never make it ring true.



Giving You can give without loving, but you can‘t love without giving.



Giving You can give nothing from the heart except what you put into it.



Giving We make a living by what we get, and a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill



Giving No man was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the

reward for what he gave,

Calvin Coolidge







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Giving A bit of fragrance clings to the hand of the one who gives flowers.

Chinese Proverb



Giving Don‘t give until it hurts. Give until it feels good.



Giving You make a living by what you make; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill



Giving It‘s everyone‘s duty to put back into the world what you get.

Albert Einstein



Giving Life is an echo. What you send out you get back. What you give – you

get.



Giving Getting is good. Giving is better. Once you understand that, it‘s always

Christmas.

Doogie Howser



Giving A candle loses nothing by lighting another

candle.

James Keller



Giving The heart that gives gathers.



Giving Ultimately ‗takers‘ lose and ‗givers‘ win.



Giving Love is never afraid of giving too much.



Giving A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give him

cash.

Robert E. Harris



Giving Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.

Pope John XXIII



Giving Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without

forgetting.



Giving We make a living by what we get, but we make life by what we give.

Winston Churchill



Giving Never underestimate the power of giving. It shines like a beacon

throughout humanity.



Giving The hand of the giver is never empty.



Giving Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

Madeline Bridge









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Giving Give God what‘s right, not what‘s left!



Giving In giving and receiving we learn to love and be loved; we encounter the

meaning of life, the mystery of existence.



Goals Goals are dreams with deadlines.



Goals Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will

make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock

clerk.

J.C. Penney



Goals In life, as in football, you won‘t go far unless you know where the

goalposts are.

Arnold Glasow



Goals Before you can score you must first have a goal.



Goals When you do not know what harbour you are making for, no wind is the

right wind.

Seneca



Goals Obstacles are what you see if you take your eyes off the goal.

Hannah More



Goals If you don‘t know where you‘re going, any road will get you there.



Goals The most important thing about having goals is having one.

George F. Abert



Goals The world has a habit of making room for people who know where they

are going.



Goals A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit.

Joe L. Griffith



Goals If you‘re doing what you‘ve always done, then tomorrow you‘ll be where

you were yesterday.



Goals Goals determine what you‘re going to be.

Julius Erving (1950 –



Goals Great goals are never reached by following the line of least persistence.

William Arthur Ward



Goals It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Theodore Reik



Goals A river reaches its goal because it has learned how to get around

obstacles.







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God God is the One Who comes to us out of the future, picks up the broken

pieces of the past, to give us a meaningful present.



God Most people forget God all day and ask him to remember them at night.



God The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not

protect you.



God God does not save us because of what we‘ve done;

Only a puny god could be bought with tithes.

Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain,

Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices,

Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidder,

And only a great God does for His children

What they cannot do for themselves.

Max Lucado



God You cannot evade the issue of God. Whether you talk about pigs or the

binomial theory, you are still talking about Him.

G.K. Chesterton



God If God is your co-pilot – swap seats.



God To take the idea of God seriously is to commit intellectual suicide.

Alister McGrath



God Some people think God is like medicine – you don‘t need Him when you

are well.



God Give God what‘s right not what‘s left.



God If God didn‘t exist, it would be necessary to invent one.

Voltaire



God Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that

there isn‘t a God.

Logan Smith



God A God without dominion, providence and final cause, is nothing else but

fate and nature.

Alexander Pope



Godliness No person can grow in godliness unless he serves his brethren.

Bradley Nassif



Golf Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain



Going Even if you‘re on the right track, you‘ll get run over if you just sit there.







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Will Rogers



Good Good deeds speak for themselves. The tongue only interrupts their

eloquence.





Good He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.

William Blake



Good When you look for the good in others you discover the best in yourself.

Martin Walsh



Good He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his

own.

Confucius



Good It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without

your help.



Good Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you

can, at all times you can, to all people you can, as long as you ever can.

John Wesley



Good There is no much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of

us, to find fault with the rest of us.



Good Be not simply good, be good for something.

Thoreau



Good & Bad Accept that some days you‘re the pigeon, and some days you‘re the

statue.



Goodness Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau



Gospel The gospel in vogue today holds forth a false hope to sinners. It

promises them they can have eternal life yet continue to live in rebellion

against God.

John MacArthur



Gossip Gossip is the art of saying nothing and leaving nothing unsaid.



Gossip Whoever gossips to you will be gossip of you.



Gossip A gossip is someone with a good sense of rumour.



Gossip Gossip brings the work of Satan into the church and injures the body of

Christ.









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Gossip The lure of gossip is almost irresistible.



Gossip Gossip is the sharing of private information with someone who is not part

of the problem or the solution.



Gossip Listen carefully, I don't repeat gossip!



Gossip The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.



Gossip The person who doesn‘t gossip has no friends to speak of.



Gossip Don‘t be the devil‘s mouthpiece.



Gossip A gossip is a person who jumps to a conclusion, takes people at deface

value, and knows how to add to and to.



Gossip Gossip is something that you must hurry to tell someone else before you

find out it isn‘t true.



Gossip Gossip that comes through the grapevine is usually sour grapes.



Grace God‘s will will never take you, where God‘s grace cannot keep you.



Grace Faith is the channel through which you and I receive the grace of God.

Joyce Meyer



Grace The dynamic of giving grace is the key to understanding grace.

Max Lucado



Grace It takes more grace than I can tell to play the second fiddle well.



Grace Grace creates the Christian‘s resume.



Grace Grace defines who you are.



Grace Grace is not an inheritance.



Grace Your sins stand no chance against the fire hydrant of God‘s grace.

Max Lucado



Grace God‘s graciously given grace galvanises grateful gentiles.

David Tait



Grace God‘s gracious gift of grace is the reason to walk in truth, not an excuse

to continue in sin.

David Tait



Grace The biggest impediment for many in delaying a decision for Christ is the

mistaken belief that the present ‗Age of Grace‘ will never end.

David Tait







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Grace Your worst days are neve so bad that you are beyond the reach of God‘s

grace, and your best days are never so good that you are beyond the

need of God‘s grace.



Grace Grace is freely available but conditional on acceptance and repentance.



Grace We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace.

Jerry Bridges



Grace Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring

repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without

confession.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Gratitude Remember that not to be happy is not to be

grateful.

Elizabeth Carter (1717 - 1806)



Gratitude The second gift begins with the first thank-you.

James Connell (1944 -)



Gratitude Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into

acceptance, chaos to order, and confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal

into a feast, a house into a home and a stranger into a friend.



Gratitude Gratitude is the memory of the heart.



Gratitude Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Aesop



Gratitude Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Henry Ward Beecher



Gratitude Greater than being great is being grateful.



Gratitude In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope for greater favours.

La Rochefoucauld



Gratitude Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.



Gratitude Swift gratitude is the sweetest.

Greek proverb



Gratitude It‘s a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

Roberto Benigni



Greatness To belittle is to be little; to be grateful is to be great.









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Greatness My formula for greatness in man is….that a man should wish to have

nothing altered, either in the future, the past, nor for all eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Greatness The measure of a country‘s greatness should be based on how well it

cares for its most vulnerable populations.

Matahma Ghandi



Greatness You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Joe Sabah



Greatness That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work.

Donn Platt



Greatness The only greatness is the greatness of humility.

Ellen G. White



Greatness A great man will not tread on a worm, nor cringe to an emperor.



Greatness It is by only by looking to Jesus that we appreciate the greatness in men.

Jan Paulson



Greatness He is great who confers the most benefits.

Emerson



Greatness Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Henry Ward Beecher



Greatness Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller



Greatness None of those who have been raised to a loftier height by riches and

honours is really great.

Seneca



Greatness A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.

Paul Duffy



Greatness He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude,

and enjoy himself independent of its favour.

Richard Steele



Greatness True greatness has little if anything to do with rank or power.



Greatness A great man is always willing to be little.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Greatness True greatness has little if anything to do with rank or power.









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Greatness But be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve

greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare



Greatness Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public

relations officers.



Greatness A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the

true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard



Greatness It is true greatness to have the frailty of a man with the security of a god.

Seneca



Greed The most disappointed people in the world are those who want

everything that is coming to them and get it.



Greed Greed I‘ve often regretted; generosity never.

Max Lucado



Greed There is enough in the world for everyone‘s need, but not enough for

everyone‘s greed.

Frank Buchman



Greed Please sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)



Grief Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of life.

Benjamin Disraeli



Grief A cherished grief is an iron chain.

Stephen Benét



Grief Grief is to man as certain as the grave.

George Crabbe



Grief All things grow with time, except grief.

Yiddish Proverb



Grief Joy has its friends, but grief its loneliness.

Robert Nathan



Grief Nothing becomes offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh, it finds

someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is rightly ridiculed.

Seneca



Grief Some grief shows much of love, but much of grief shows still some want

of wit.

Shakespeare









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Griping Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect you couldn‘t belong.



Growing Blessed is the man who can say that the boy he was would be proud of

the man he is.

J.F. Burshears



Growing Don‘t be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.



Growling He who growls all day lives a dog‘s life.



Growling The very word ‗grudge‘ starts with ….ggr…a growl.

Max Lucado



Growling Growl and grumble, growl and grumble, and all your chances in life will

crumble.



Growling Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am

thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr



Grown Up A person is grown up not when they can take care of themselves, but

when they can take care of others.



Growth Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey



Grudge Nothing wastes labour like working off a grudge.



Grudge A grudge is the heaviest thing to carry.



Grudge The very word ‗grudge‘ starts with ….ggrr…a growl.

Max Lucado



Grudges Grudges do not improve with nursing.



Grudges Nursing a grudge is like arguing with a cop. The move you do it the

worse things get.



Grudges Nothing is as heavy as carrying a grudge.







Grumbling Grumbling is the death of love.

Marlene Dietrich



Guilt Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

Iris Murdoch



Guilt Guilt is concerned with the past, worry is concerned about the future, but

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Guilt The weight of weariness pulls you down. Self-reliance misleads you.

Disappointments discourage you. Anxiety plagues, but guilt consumes

you.

Max Lucado



Guilt True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself.

False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be

or assume that one is.

R.D. Laing



Guilt Guilt may burden the heart but God seeks conviction.



Guilt Here‘s the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten

this little hand.

Shakespeare (Macbeth)



Guilt Short is the pleasure that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripedes



Guidance People are guided to heaven by footprints more than signposts.



Guidance Where God guides He provides.



Guilty Guilty is just one word, yet it usually means a long sentence.



Grumbling Don‘t grumble because you don‘t have what you want; be thankful you

don‘t get what you deserve.



Habit The worst boss anyone can have is a bad habit.



Habit We make our habits and our habits make us.



Habit The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too

strong to be broken.

Samuel Johnson



Habit Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples‘ habits.



Habit We shall be individually, for time and eternity, what our habits make us.

Ellen G. White



Habit A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it‘s an undo-it-yourself

project.

Abigail van Buren



Handicap The biggest handicap in the world is negative thinking.

Heather Whitestone



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grateful.

Elizabeth Carter (1717 - 1806)



Happiness Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that

seldom happens, as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin



Happiness Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.



Happiness Money can‘t buy happiness….but it does bring you a more pleasant form

of misery.

Spike Milligan



Happiness Happiness is found in things unseen rather than things which can be

touched, bought or stolen.

Linzi Aitken



Happiness A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos



Happiness Happiness is always an inside job.



Happiness Pleasure comes with the fulfilment of desire – getting what you want and

wanting what you get. Happiness comes with the fulfilment of the

person. And much of our moral confusion comes from the fact that we

no longer know what happiness is, nor how to obtain it.

Roger Scruton



Happiness Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant



Happiness The happiest people don‘t necessarily have the best of everything. They

just make the most of everything that comes along the way.



Happiness Happiness is not a station in life, but a manner of travelling.



Happiness Happiness is in the heart not the circumstances.



Happiness The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a

detour.



Happiness Remember, happiness doesn‘t depend upon who you are or what you

have; it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955)



Happiness We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than

to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw



Happiness Happiness is good health and a bad memory.







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Ingrid Bergman



Happiness Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Lao-Tzu



Happiness It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.



Happiness The path of happiness often leads through the field of forgetfulness.



Happiness The minute a man stops looking for trouble, happiness will look for him.



Happiness Be like the steam kettle! Though up to the neck in hot water, it continues

to sing.



Happiness When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two

people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn



Happiness Take time to be friendly; it is the road to happiness.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)



Happiness Happiness is enjoying what you have instead of fretting over what you

don‘t have.



Happiness Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the

living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by

children to adults.

Thomas Szasz



Happiness The three grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something

to love, and something to hope for.

Allan Chalmers also attributed to Joseph Addison



Happiness Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Mildred Barthel



Happiness The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now, the way to be

happy is to make others so.



Happiness Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of

human existence.

Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)



Happiness Most people are about as happy as they make up

their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1665)



Happiness Many people have lost the way to happiness in search of pleasure.



Happiness Happiness is a direction, not a place.







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Sydney J. Harris



Happiness Happiness is a direction, not a destination.



Happiness There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.



Happiness The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from

worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine. Forget

self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale



Happiness The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making

those dreams come true.



Happiness Happiness is the perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a

few drops on yourself.



Happiness Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never

found it, but because they didn‘t stop to enjoy it.

W. Feather



Happiness When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so

long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened

for us.

Helen Keller



Happiness Happiness may be transitory but joy is permanent.



Happiness We tend to forget that happiness doesn‘t come as a result of getting

something we don‘t have, but rather of recognising and appreciating what

we do have.

Frederick Keonig



Happiness An act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness.



Happiness One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from

being happy over the good fortune of others.

John Rutledge



Happiness Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt if you

don‘t set any conditions.

Arthur Rubenstein



Happiness He is the happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his house.

Goethe



Happiness We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,

when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be

enthusiastic about.









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Happiness The only kind of happiness we are allowed to keep is the happiness we

give away.



Happiness Happiness is enhanced by others – but does not depend upon others.



Happiness Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they

already have. Most people make the mistake of looking too far ahead for

things close by.



Happiness The better part of happiness is to wish to be what you are.



Happiness The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.



Happiness Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde



Happiness Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke



Happiness Happiness is more a matter of interest than income.



Happiness Today well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and

every tomorrow a vision of hope.



Happiness Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence.

Robert Green Ingersoll



Happiness Action may not always bring happiness, but there is not happiness

without action.

Benjamin Disraeli



Happiness The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy.

Hunter Adams



Harm You cannot harm another without harming yourself even more.



Haste God did not create hurry.

Finnish Proverb



Haste Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley



Hatred Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Milan Kundera



Hatred Hatred is the rabid dog that turns on its owner.

Max Lucado



Hatred Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick







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Hatred Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell like a woman

scorned.



Hatred Hatred is a burden whose weight eventually wears out everyone who

carries it.



Hatred I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me

hate him.

Booker T. Washington



Hatred We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

William Hazlitt



Hatred People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be

taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its

opposite.

Nelson Mandela



Hatred Hatred is the rabid dog that turns on its owner.



Having Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Jane Austen



Head when you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use

your heart.

Donna Reed



Hereafter Are you interested in the hereafter? Remember the here determines the

after.



Heal Love not time, heals all wounds.



Health A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to

take care of his tools.

Spanish proverb



Health Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to

conscience; health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of,

a blessing money can‘t buy.

Izaak Walton



Heart When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use

your heart.

Donna Reed



Heart Words are windows to the heart.



Heart There are some people in life who catch your eye, and then there are

those who capture your heart.







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Heart The best exercise for strengthening the heart is reaching down and lifting

people up.

Ernest Blevis



Heart The right heart with the wrong creed is better than the right creed with

the wrong heart.

Max Lucado



Heart Thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts can find no rest except in

Thee.

Augustine



Heart God can do wonders with a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.

Victor Alfsen



Heart Give others a piece of your heart, not piece of your mind.



Heaven Many hope to be elected to heaven who are not even running for the

office.



Heaven I don‘t believe in afterlife, so I don‘t have to spend my whole life fearing

hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I

think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov



Heaven The cross is the key that unlocks the gate to heaven.



Heaven Whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be

even worse.

Isaac Asimov



Heaven Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to

ask.

Billy Graham



Heaven Don‘t miss heaven by 45 cm – the distance between your head and

heart.



Heaven As much of heaven is visible as we have eyes to see.

William Winter



Heaven Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it,

but nobody wants to do what you have to do get there.

Phil Gramm



Hell Hell is the absence of love – and the loss of all capacity to enjoy it.



Hell Hell is not to love any more.

Georges Bernanos







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Hell Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre



Hell I don‘t believe in afterlife, so I don‘t have to spend my whole life fearing

hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I

think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Isaac Asimov



Hell Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri (Sign on Hell in Dante‘s Inferno)



Hell The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

C.S. Lewis





Hell Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell like a woman

scorned.



Hell A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw



Hell Whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be

even worse.

Isaac Asimov



Help The best help you can give is at the end of your own arm.

Loretta Warsow



Help The best helping hand that you will ever find is at the end of your own

arm.



Help When you help another up a steep hill you get nearer the top yourself.



Help It is one of the m most beautiful compensations of this life that no one

can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Help The only right time to look down on others is when you‘re helping them

up.

William Arthur Ward



Helpfulness To help someone up the mountain while you are only able to keep your

foothold; to struggle through the mists together - that surely is better than

to stand at the summit and beckon.



Herbs A herb is a friend of physicians and the praise of cooks.

Charlemagne









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Hereafter Are you interested in the hereafter? If so, just remember the here

determines the after.



Heroes Without heroes, we are all plain people and don‘t know how far we can

go.

Bernard Malamud



Heroes Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest

materials, or none at all.

Gerald Johnson



Heroes Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw



Hesitation Hesitation is the camping ground of lost causes.



Hesitation He who hesitates is probably right.



Hindsight Hindsight shows you how a mistake looks from the rear.



Hindsight Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.



History The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote

down.

A. Whitney Brown



History Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery.

Today‘s a gift, That‘s why we call it ‗the present‘.

Linda Brand



History The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that,

from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely

different.

Aldous Huxley



History The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle



History The more backward you look the farther forward you see.

Winston Churchill



History God does not watch history passively unfold.



History History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer



History Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

George Satayana









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History The worst thing about history is that every time it repeats itself the price

goes up.



History History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.

W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman



History History is a story written by the finger of God.

C.S. Lewis



Holiday Nothing ruins a holiday like a briefcase among the baggage.



Holiday Taking a job on holiday is no substitute for giving it a rest.



Holiness Two marks of a holy person: giving and forgiving.



Home A refugee is someone who is fleeing from home; a vagabond is someone

who has no home; a stranger is someone away from home; a pilgrim is

someone on his way home.



Home Home is the place where the husband is the conductor but the wife writes

the script.



Home Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble,

there‘s no place like home.

J.H. Payne



Home A refugee is someone who is fleeing away from home; a vagabond is

someone who has no home; a stranger is someone away from home; a

pilgrim is someone on his way home.



Honest Being entirely honest with oneself is good exercise.

Sigmund Freud



Honest Be honest with all but trust few.



Honest If you are an honest person at least there‘s one rascal less in the world.



Honest Nobody is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Honest An honest man is the noblest work of God.

Alexander Pope



Honest Do what is honest and true for you but do it in a way that honours the

people your decision affects.



Honesty Honesty may be the best policy – but some people don‘t think they can

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Honesty All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest

would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

John Quincy Adams



Honour No man was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the

reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge



Honour Our own heart, and not others' opinions of us, forms our true honour.

Friedrich von Schiller



Honour Do what is honest and true for you but do it in a way that honours the

people your decision affects.



Hope Every time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of

others or strikes out against an injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny

ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy



Hope Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the

impossible.



Hope One of the greatest gifts leaders can give others is hope.



Hope Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to

be blest.

Alexander Pope



Hope Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.

Samuel Johnson



Hope Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle



Hope Hope expands horizons.

Donald Tait



Hope Disappointment kills courage and sinks hope.



Hope Hope expands horizons.



Hope Doubt may cloud the future but hope dispels the clouds.



Hope Hope is the parent of faith.

C.A. Bartol



Hope ‗Hope for the best‘ is at best a gamble, but hope in the salvation of Jesus

is a certainty.

Donald Tait









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Hope Hope is a line of credit….a flame for the human spirit.

Wintley Phipps



Hope If there is no hope for the future, there is no purpose in the present.



Hope Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps, the chief happiness

which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson



Hope Hope in mankind is hopeless, but hope in God springs eternal.

Donald Tait



Hope The death of hope leads to the hope of death.



Hope Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the

impossible.



Hope Hope is the spirit that gives oxygen to dreams.

Peter Harvey



Hope There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of

hope.

Ray Kemp



Hope Faith is the audacity of hope.

Hermine L. Graham



Hope The one thing that history teaches us is the futility of placing our hope in

the goodness of man.

Donald Tait



Hope We should not expect something for nothing but we all do and call it

hope.

Ed Howe



Hope We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite

hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.



Hope A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte



Hope Fear takes ignorance and uncertainty to new depths. Faith takes hope

and courage to unimagined heights.



Hope Life is never hopeless when your hope is in Christ.



Hope In a world of injustice God once and for all tipped the scales in favour of

hope.









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Hope Man‘s way leads to a hopeless end, God‘s way leads to an endless hope.



Hope Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn‘t permanent.

Jean Kerr



Hope Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction

that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes

sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Václav Havel



Hope He who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, has everything.

Arabian Proverb



Hospitality Hospitality is the art of making your guests feel at home even though you

wish they were



Hour Man may have his hour but God will have His day.

Fulton J. Sheen



Hug A hug is a great gift, one size fits all. It can be given for any occasion

and it‘s easy to exchange.



Humiliation It‘s discouraging to make a mistake, but it‘s humiliating when you find our

you‘re so unimportant that nobody noticed it.



Humility The greatness of a leader is in his humility before God, not in his

eloquence before men.



Humility It‘s hard to be humble when you always win. So God doesn‘t let that

happen.



Humility The only greatness is the greatness of humility.

Ellen G. White



Humility Humility is such an elusive virtue. Once you think you have it, you don‘t –

or you wouldn‘t think you did.

Max Lucado



Humility Humility doesn‘t mean you think less of yourself but you think of yourself

less.

Max Lucado



Humility The most difficult of all musical instruments to learn to play is second

fiddle.



Humility God loves humility with the same intensity He hates arrogance.

Max Lucado



Humility Learning humility in defeat trains us to remain humble in success.

Donald Tait







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Humility Humility in defeat prepares us for humbleness in success.

Donald Tait



Humour Humour is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the

beginning of prayer.

. Reinhold Niebuhr



Humour A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with

people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



Humour Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

James Thurber



Humour Nothing makes your sense of humour disappear faster than having

somebody ask where it is.



Humour A person without a sense of humour is like a wagon without springs -

jolted by every pebble in the road.

Henry Ward Beecher



Humour Humour is one of those things which we should take seriously.



Humour Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein



Humour A sense of humour is as important to life as shock absorbers are to a car.

It helps us over the bumps.





Hurt A person has never been hurt by anything they didn‘t say.



Husband Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.

Jonathan Lynn



Hypocrisy The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a

hypocrite itself is hypocrisy.

William Hazlitt



Hypocrisy Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can

pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.

It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a

whole-time job.

W. Somerset Maugham



Hypocrisy Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

La Rochefoucald



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Hypocrite If a hypocrite is between you and God, he is closer to God than you are.



Hypocrite If a hypocrite comes between you and God you are too far away from

Him.



Hypocrite A hypocrite is like a pin – points one way and heads another.



Hypocrite The person who preaches by the yard but practices by the inch is a

hypocrite.



Hypocrite Hypocrites do the devil‘s drudgery in Christ‘s livery.

Matthew Henry



Hypocrite Even the hypocrite admires righteousness. That is why he imitates it.



Hypocrite A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark in all actions,

shooting at his own praise or profit.

Thomas Fuller



Hypothesis There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis,

then you‘ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the

hypothesis, then you‘ve made a discovery.

Enrico Fermi



Ideals Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your

hands, but like sea-faring men on the desert of waters, you choose them

as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.



Ideals Keep your ideals high enough to inspire you, but low enough to

encourage you.



Ideals You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisement.

Norman Douglas



Ideals The hope is that some day the Christian ideal will be put into practice.



Ideals A man‘s true ideals are those he lives by, not always those he talks

about.



Ideals If you are satisfied with yourself you had better change your ideals.



Idealism Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf



Ideas Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small

people talk about people (also wine).

Fran Lebowitz



Ideas Many a good idea has been smothered to death by words.







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Ideas The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.



Ideas The reason some ideas die quickly in some heads is that they can‘t stand

solitary confinement.



Ideas Nothing dies quicker than a new idea in a closed mind.



Ideas A mind once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original

dimensions.



Ideas Ideas matter less than the ability to make them work.



Ideas Bright ideas alone are not even halfway there.



Ideas When rejecting the ideas of another, make sure you reject only the idea

and not the person.



Ideas Say no to many good ideas. Say yes to the great ones.



Ideas A person with one idea rarely has the right one.



Ideas Some folks entertain ideas; others work them.



Ideas The value of an idea is the using of it.

Thomas Edison



Ideas Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.



Ideas Silence is an environment in which great ideas are birthed.



Ideas One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot



Ideas There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an

idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo



Ideas Ideas have a short shelf life – that‘s why we must act before the

expiration date.



Ideas If an idea‘s worth having once, it‘s worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard



Ideas Infancy is the period of great danger in the lie of an idea.



Ideas Ideas are like children – no matter how much you admire someone else‘s

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Ideas Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,

and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck



Ideas A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be

made against invasion by an idea.

Victor Hugo



Ideas If an idea‘s worth having once, it‘s worth having twice.

Tom Stoppard



Ideas Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

Alain



Ideas Ideas are funny things. They don‘t work unless you do.



Ideas How hot a good idea is usually depends on how much heat it loses when

somebody throws cold water on it.



Ideas Direction is a matter of fact; ideas are a matter of opinion.



Idealist Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies

somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.

Hugh Macleod



Idleness Idleness always envies industry.



Idleness Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Lord Chesterfield



Ignorance Dedicated ignorance gets you nowhere.



Ignorance Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and

conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr



Ignorance The only thing more expensive that education is ignorance.



Ignorance The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher



Ignorance Ignorance needs no introduction, it always makes itself known.



Ignorance Fear takes ignorance and uncertainty to new depths. Faith takes hope

and courage to unimagined heights.



Ignorance Poverty is no disgrace, but ignorance is.



Ignorance Ignorance and conceit go hand in hand.

The Talmud







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Ignorance Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda.

Kofi Annan



Ignorance Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi



Ignorance Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.



Ignorance There is no slavery but ignorance.

Robert Ingersoll



Ignorance There is no darkness but ignorance.

Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)



Ignorance Many a man is not suspected of being ignorant till he starts to talk.



Ignorance It is impossible for people in ignorance to understand their position for

that would need knowledge.



Ignorance Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.

Robert Browning



Ignorance Ignorance is the mother of imprudence.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Ignorance Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

J.A. Froude



Ignorance Ignorance never settles a question.

Benjamin Disraeli



Ignorance It is better to remain silent that to speak out and remove all doubt.



Ignorance The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and

content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard



Ignorance The insolence of he vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance.

William Hazlitt



Ignorance The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Robert Quillan



Ignorance It‘s not necessary for some people to put out the light to be in the dark.



Ignorance To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli



Ignorance If ignorance is bliss, why aren‘t more people happy?







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Ignorance Ignorance is not turned into wisdom by multiplication.



Ignorance There is no zeal so intemperate and cruel as that which is backed by

ignorance.



Ignorance To succeed in life we need only two things – ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain



Ignorance By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy

synonymous with ignorance.

Erasmus



Ignore Anyone who ignores God destructs themself.



Illusion Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Nancy Gibbs



Illusion Crisis feeds on the illusion that control can bring the situation under

control.

Anne Wilson Schael & Diane Fassel



Illusion The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion,

however persistent.

Albert Einstein



Illusion Don‘t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but

you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain



Ill Will Ill will is a burden that only fools trouble to bear.



Imagination Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a

sense of humour to console him for what he is.



Imagination To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Anatole Thibault



Imagination You can‘t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of

focus.

Mark Twain



Imagination When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.

Albert Camus



Imitation A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

Voltaire



Imitation To find an imitation is to receive praise.









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Immaturity You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry



Immortality I am immortal till my work is done.

M.L. Andreasen



Immortality Millions long for immortality who don‘t know what to do with themselves

on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz



Immortality I don‘t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it

through not dying.

Woody Allen



Impartiality When people feel deeply, impartiality is bias.

Lord Reith



Impartiality Justice can easily degenerate into cold vengeance, or cold impartiality.



Impediment The biggest impediment for many in delaying a decision for Christ is the

mistaken belief that the present ‗Age of Grace‘ will never end.

David Tait



Imperfect The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Doug Larson



Importance It‘s nice to be important but it‘s more important to be nice.

Trini Lopez



Importance The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their

mother.



Importance A man is as old as he feels, but never as important.



Importance There is nothing – absolutely nothing – of greater importance than

knowing Christ intensely and intimately.

Charles Swindoll



Importance In order to keep a true perspective of one‘s importance, everyone should

have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.

Derek Bruce



Impossible God has a history of using the insignificant to accomplish the impossible.



Impossibilities We are all faced with magnificent opportunities brilliantly disguised as

impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll



Impossibilities Impossibilities vanish when a man and his God confront a mountain.

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Impossibilities We have a God who delights in impossibilities.



Impossibility When God prepares to do something wonderful, He begins with a

difficulty. When He plans to do something very wonderful, He begins

with an impossibility.



Impossible Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the

impossible.



Impossible I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.

Wernher von Braun



Impossible How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the

impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Impossible It is kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney



Impossible All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the

basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner



Impossible Given time, any difficult job becomes impossible.



Impossible My challenge was not to do the impossible – but to learn to live with the

possible.

Sue Bender



Impossible The impossible: what nobody can do until somebody does.



Impossible The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them

and to do the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke



Impossible ‗Impossible‘ is a word found only in the dictionary of fools,

Napoleon Bonaparte



Impossible Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything.

Jean Louis Etiene



Impulse Man‘s chief merit consists of resisting the impulses of his nature.

Samuel Johnson



Impulse Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Talleyrand



Impulse Impulse is a mount that needs riding with a tight rein.









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Impulse Impulse has more effect than conscious purpose in moulding men‘s lives.

Bertrand Russell



Inactivity Inactivity is the lowest form of relaxation.



Inclination Inclination is the main spring of inspiration.



Incompetence It isn‘t the incompetent who destroys an organisation. The incompetent

never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved

something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever

clogging things up.

F.M. Young



Incompetence Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov



Incompetence In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter (The Peter Principle)



Indecision Indecisive people are like a blind man looking in a dark room for a black

cat that isn‘t there.



Indecision I‘ll give you a definite ‗maybe‘.

Sam Goldwyn



Indecision I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a

week, sometimes, to make it up.

Mark Twain



Indecision I used to be indecisive. Now I‘m not sure.



Indecision There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is

habitual but indecision.

William James



Indifference The worst sin against our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be

indifferent to them.

George Bernard Shaw



Indifference Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke



Indifference Indifference to evil is the enemy of good, for indifference is the enemy of

everything that exalts the honour of man.

Elie Wiesel



Indifference The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed; but the

vast majority who have sat idly by.

Martin Luther King









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Indifference It‘s not the difference between people that‘s the difficulty. It‘s the

indifference.



Indifference The opposite of love is not hate, it‘s indifference. The opposite of art is

not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it‘s

indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it‘s indifference.

Elie Wiesel



Indignation Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G. Wells



Individual God made you an original, not a copy.



Individual Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that

one of you is enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Indulgence To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Mme de Staël



Indulgence It is quite easy for mercy to degenerate into soupy indulgence.

Woodrow W. Whidden



Industrious I was obliged to be industrious, whoever is equally industrious will

succeed equally well.

Johann Sebastian Bach



Inertia Encouragement is the best known cure for inertia.



Infinite Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I‘m not

sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein



Inferiority Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt



Influence Just one act of yours may turn the tide of another person‘s life.



Influence It is impossible for you to influence others to a higher level than that on

which you live yourself.



Influence You can never bury your influence.



Information As information doubles, knowledge halves and wisdom quarters.

Eugene Brewer



Information Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

Albert Einstein









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Information As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the

best information.

Benjamin Disraeli



Inhumanity Man‘s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Robert Burns



Initiative He who cannot take the initiative rarely takes anything.



Initiative It‘s the person who doesn‘t need a boss that‘s usually selected to be one.



Initiative When you‘re a self-starter. Others don‘t have to be a crank.



Initiative Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.



Initiative A man can‘t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge

under the family tree.



Initiative There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much: Those who

cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus H.K. Curtis



Injustice Each time a person stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of

others or strikes out against an injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny

ripple of hope.

Robert F. Kennedy



Injustice In a world of injustice God once and for all tipped the scales in favour of

hope.



Injustice There are two things to which we never grow accustomed – the ravages

of time and the injustice of our fellow men.

Talleyrand



Innocence Innocence is a slippery substance. It seems you can‘t possess it and at

the same time know that you possess it.

Carol Shields



Insanity A definition of insanity: to continue the same behaviour and yet expect

different results.



Insanity Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for

different results.

Benjamin Franklin



Insecurity Eternal insecurity extracts joy from many people.

Max Lucado



Insignificant God has a history of using the insignificant to accomplish the impossible.









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Inspiration Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

Bill Bright



Inspiration Inclination is the main spring of inspiration.



Inspiration Irritation and inspiration seldom thrive in the same soil.



Inspiration Irritation is the enemy of inspiration.



Inspiration You can‘t sweep people off their feet if you can‘t be swept off your own.

Clarence Daly



Insults An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Lord Chesterfield



Insults Insults are like bad coins; we cannot help their being offered to us, but

we need not take them.

C.H. Spurgeon



Insults The most effective answer to an insult is silence.



Integrity There is no better test for a man‘s ultimate integrity than his behaviour

when he is wrong.



Integrity Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.

Jim Stovall



Integrity Only by being on the level can one climb to the highest places.



Integrity Nothing is at last sacred except the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Integrity Integrity is a matter of considering the consequences of every action and

of never being drawn mindlessly into anything.

Dadi Janki



Integrity Integrity is like oxygen. The higher you go the less there is.



Integrity This above all – to thine own self be true

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Shakespeare (Hamlet)



Integrity Wisdom is knowing what path to take next; integrity is taking it.



Integrity If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don‘t have integrity,

nothing else matters.

Alan Simpson









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Integrity Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless ….. Knowledge without

integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson



Integrity Integrity means you do what you do for no other reason that because it is

right.



Intellectual An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus



Intelligence A human being has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be

able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when

confronted with what exists.

Albert Einstein



Intelligence The measure of a man‘s intelligence is inversely proportional to the

amount of time he keeps his mouth open.



Intelligence Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is

capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred North Whitehead



Intentions Good intentions are like cheques that men try to draw from a bank where

they have no account.



Intentions The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

Patti Labelle



Intentions The person who always forgets their good intentions is but a road of

good through broken resolutions.



Intentions The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

C.S. Lewis



Intercession Intercession is nothing more than love on your knees.



Interrupt People who say it can‘t be done shouldn‘t interrupt people doing it.



Interrupt When your work speaks for itself, don‘t interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser



Intolerance Most of us are broad-minded enough to admit that there are two sides to

every question – our own side and the side that no intelligent, informed,

sane, and self-respecting citizen could possible hold.



Intolerance Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly

against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Sigmund Freud









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Intolerance Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a

true democratic spirit.

Mahatma Ghandi



Intolerance Intolerance is a matter of being down on something you are not up on.



Invisible The heart sees clearly the essentials – those invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint Expéry



Involvement You cannot leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.



Irrelevance If you don‘t like change you‘re going to like irrelevance a lot less.

Eric Shinseki



Irritation Irritation and inspiration seldom thrive in the same soil.



Irritation Irritation is the enemy of inspiration.



Irritation Irritation is an infectious complaint.



Isolation The person who builds a wall around their life shuts out much more than

they can keep in.



Jealousy Jealously is the tribute mediocrity pays to achievers.



Jealousy Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Erica Jong



Jealousy To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Françoise Sagan



Jealousy Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G. Wells



Jealousy Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen



Jealousy Jealousy makes us smaller in the hearts of our friends, weaker in the

eyes of our adversaries, and defenceless in the hands of our enemies.



Jealousy Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Robert Louis Stevenson



Jesus Those who know Jesus smile at the future.



Jesus Jesus Christ is the only plausible resolution of the world‘s problems.

Justin Lawman



Jesus Jesus is the screen through which God looks when He judges our sins.

Max Lucado







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Jesus You will never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.



Jesus If Jesus is one of many options, He is no option.

Max Lucado



Jesus As long as you can take Him or leave Him you might as well leave Him;

because He won‘t be taken half-heartedly.

Max Lucado



Jesus If you run ahead of Jesus, you meet the devil alone

Ed Eigenberg



Jesus Proliferating throughout Scripture is a preposition that leaves no doubt –

the preposition in. Jesus lives in His children.

Max Lucado



Jesus The Jesus in us, makes us invincible in Jesus

David Tait



Jesus Jesus loved us to death.

David Tait



Jesus Try Jesus. If you don‘t like Him, the devil will always take you back.



Jesus It is only by looking to Jesus that we appreciate the greatness in men.

Jan Paulson



Jesus If Jesus is all you have, you realise He is all you need.



Jesus Without Him the most of mosts is nothing. With Him the least of leasts is

All.

Covenanter preacher



Jogging Jogging is for people who aren‘t intelligent enough to watch television.

Victoria Wood



Journey A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-Tzu



Journey A journey with God is always a great adventure.



Joy Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.

Dr. Melba Colgrove



Joy Joy has its friends, but grief its loneliness.

Robert Nathan



Joy The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing

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Henry Ward Beecher



Joy Happiness maybe transitory but joy is permanent.



Joy Joy is not the absence of suffering, but rather the presence of God.



Joy Joy is one of the only emotions you can‘t contrive.

Bono



Joy Sacred delight derives from stubborn joy.

Max Lucado



Joy God‘s joy is one that consequences cannot quench;

His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado



Joy Eternal insecurity extracts joy from many people.

Max Lucado





Joy To get the full value of joy you must have some one to share it with.



Joy Who pleasure gives, shall joy receive.



Joy His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which

circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado



Joy Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence

aglow.

Helen Keller



Joy Sin causes the cup of joy to spring a leak.

Rev Robert E. Harris



Judge Judge each day not by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant.



Judge If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa



Judgement People often excuse their poor memory but rarely their judgment.



Judgement Perfect love can handle your fear of judgement.

Max Lucado



Judgement Christianity was from the beginning a religion of judgment. No Christian

was ever allowed to forget that in the end he must face God.

William Barclay









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Judgement Good judgement comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes

from bad judgement.



Judging If you imagine you are always right about others, rest assured you are

sometimes wrong about yourself.



Judging For every judge operating in an official capacity, there are a hundred who

are self-appointed.



Judging Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Shakespeare



Judging God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why

should you?



Judgmental I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-

righteous people around me.



Junk Junk is something you‘ve kept for years and throw away three weeks

before you need it.



Justice Nothing that lacks justice can be morally right.

Cicero



Justice Justice is truth in action.

Benjamin Disraeli



Justice Without justice everything else is irrelevant.



Justice The love of justice in most people is no more than the fear of suffering

injustice.

Rochefoucauld



Justice To no man will we sell, or deny, or delay, right or justice.

Magna Carta



Justice Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King



Justice Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Augustine



Justice Justice can easily degenerate into cold vengeance, or calculated

impartiality.



Justice Justice has nothing to do with expediency….It is rooted and grounded in

the fundamental instincts of humanity.

Woodrow Wilson









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Justice (It) is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but

should manifestly and undoubtedly, be seen to be done.

Gordon Hewart



Justified The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone

is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Kick Never kick anyone in the seat of the pants – or he‘s one step ahead of

you.



Kick When you are getting kicked from the rear it means that you are up front.



Kindness There is no better extinguisher for the flames

of anger and bitterness than kindness.



Kindness A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert



Kindness A few kind words take only seconds to say, but their echoes can go on

for years.



Kindness Kindness is the one commodity of which you should spend more than

you earn.

T.N. Tiemeyer



Kindness The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn‘t count for today.



Kindness To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.



Kindness Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

Seneca



Kindness Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.



Kindness Don‘t expect to enjoy life if you keep your milk of human kindness all

bottled up.



Kindness Persistent kindness conquers the ill disposed.

Seneca



Kindness Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes.



Kindness Kindness pays dividends only when you forget it does.



Kindness Kindness is difficult to give away, because it keeps coming back.



Kindness The greatest acts of love are done by those who habitually perform small

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Kindness Kind words and actions are more effective in bringing about an outcome

than harsh ones.



Kindness Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates

profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu



Knocking How splendid this world would be if we would let opportunity do all the

knocking.



Know-it-alls Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to

those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov



Knowledge Knowledge is good. Performance is better.

Sheree Parris Nudd (1954 -)



Knowledge Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the

other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey



Knowledge It is so easy to be beguiled by the complexity of knowledge when seeking

the simplicity of true faith.

David Tait



Knowledge As information doubles, knowledge halves and wisdom quarters.

Eugene Brewer



Knowledge Genuine faith revels in godly truth, but human faith is dependent upon

earthly knowledge.

David Tait



Knowledge The person who knows everything has a lot to learn



Knowledge It isn't what you know but what you are willing learn.

Cliff Schimmels



Knowledge The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.



Knowledge Computers are able to process endless knowledge, but only humans can

discern truth.

David Tait



Knowledge Knowing when is just as important as knowing how.



Knowledge The first step towards knowledge is to know of our ignorance.

Cecil



Knowledge When you have all the answers you haven‘t asked all the questions.









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Knowledge Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless …. Knowledge without

integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson



Knowledge Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

Albert Einstein



Knowledge An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin



Knowledge If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as

to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley



Knowledge There is….at best, only a limited value in the knowledge derived from

experience.

T.S. Eliot



Knowledge I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates



Knowledge Whoever is too much known to everyone, is unknown to himself.

Seneca



Knowledge Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi



Knowledge I know so little that it astonishes me how many people know even less.



Knowledge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Lord Tennyson



Knowledge People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-Tzu



Knowledge Knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon



Knowledge Knowledge is subject to change, while truth stands firm.

David Tait



Knowledge To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli



Knowledge The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein



Lady A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.









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Language Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk, your mind is on

parade.



Last Live every day like it is your last day on Earth and sooner or later you will

be right.



Late It‘s never too late to be what you might have been.



Laughter Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo



Laughter Laughter is the brush that drives away the cobwebs of the heart.

Mort Walker



Laughter The person who can make others laugh is blessed.



Laughter It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of

your heart.

Martin Luther



Laughter Humour is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr



Laughter Laughter is the face of happiness.



Laughter Laughter is liquid sunshine.



Laughter Laughter is a noisy smile.



Laughter You can‘t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Jay Leno



Laughter There‘s nothing better than a world where everybody‘s just trying to make

each other laugh.

Matthew Perry



Laughter Learn to laugh at your troubles and you‘ll never run out of things to laugh

at.

Lyn Karol



Laughter He who laughs, lasts.

Mary Pettibone



Laughter He who laughs last usually has a tooth missing.



Laughter Laughter is to life what salt is to the egg.

Helen Valentine



Laughter Take time to laugh for it is the music of the soul.









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Laughter Never forget how to laugh, because laughter is the inner energy which

cleanses the soul and lifts the spirit.

Turhan



Laughter Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it

principally in one place.

Josh Billings



Laughter The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed.

Sebastian Chamfort



Laughter Laughter is a tranquilliser with no side effects.

Arnold Glasow



Laughter There is nothing better than contagious laughter.

Jennifer Aniston



Laughter A good laugh is sunshine in the house.



Laughter You grow up the day you have the first real laugh – at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore



Laziness Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin



Laziness Laziness is resting before you get tired.



Leadership Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more

than they promise not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Mark A. Clement



Leadership Leaders impress others when leaders succeed; leaders impact others

when followers succeed.

John Maxwell



Leadership Leadership is action, not position.

Donald McGannon (1920 - 1984)



Leadership The leader who sells principles for popularity will soon become bankrupt.



Leadership A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes

people where they don‘t want necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter



Leadership Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead

to motivate them.

John Maxwell



Leadership A sense of humour is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with

people, of getting things done.







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Dwight D. Eisenhower



Leadership The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man

with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best co-

ordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

W. Alton Jones



Leadership One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before

it becomes an emergency.

Arnold Glasow



Leadership Leadership is influence.

John Maxwell



Leadership Leadership is not so much about position as influence.

Stephen Grunlan



Leadership The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Kenneth Blanchard



Leadership Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you

aren‘t.

Margaret Thatcher



Leadership A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

John Maxwell



Leadership Leadership is the transference of vision.

Hal Reed



Leadership Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis



Leadership The successful leader is the one who makes the right move at the right

moment with the right motive.



Leadership A spiritual leader is someone who has abandoned the love of power to

embrace the power of love.



Leadership A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John Maxwell



Leadership To gain the follower‘s trust is an essential requirement for leadership.



Leadership When the best leader‘s work is done the people say, ―We did it

ourselves.‖

Lao Tsu



Leadership The single most important factor in determining the climate of an

organisation is the top executive.







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Charles Galloway



Leadership The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men

to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from

meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt



Leadership Leadership and followership cannot be separated, Your followership sets

the pattern for your leadership.



Leadership No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get

all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie



Leadership Leadership is a way to mobilise others to work toward shared aspirations.

Augusto Cesar Maia



Leadership True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the

enrichment of the leaders.



Leadership Leadership is not about being nice. It‘s about being right and being

strong.

Paul Keating



Leadership A wise leader inspires and motivates, rather than intimidating and

manipulating.



Leadership To lead others to do right is wonderful. To do right and then lead them is

more wonderful…and harder.

John Maxwell



Leadership The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point

that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Fred A. Manske Jr



Leadership Credibility is the most important possession of a leader.

John Maxwell



Leadership Leadership is not a right – it‘s a responsibility.

John Maxwell



Leadership Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis



Leadership Leadership only functions on the basis of trust.

John Maxwell



Leadership A good leader is a guy who can step on your toes without messing up

your shine.









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Leadership Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want

done because he wants to do it.

Dwight Eisenhower



Leadership The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.



Leadership A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his

head.

Robert Townsend



Leadership Leadership is getting people to help you when they are not obligated to

do so.



Leadership A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte



Leadership Leadership depends on the ability to make people want to follow -

voluntarily.



Leadership A wise leader resolves conflicts peaceably not forcibly.



Leadership The Boss says ‗go‘ – the Leader says ‗let‘s go‘.



Leadership To lead people, walk behind them.

Lao-Tzu



Leadership One of the burdens of leadership is to be unpopular when necessary.



Leadership The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other people the

convictions and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann



Leadership Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination.



Leadership A leader who develops people, ADDS – a leader who develops leaders,

MULTIPLIES!

John Maxwell



Leadership A leader is anyone who has two characteristics: first, he is going

somewhere; second, he is able to persuade other people to go with him.



Leadership Workers want a boss who uses a baton – not a club. They want to be

led – not driven.



Leadership Leadership is not wielding authority – it‘s empowering people.

Becky Brodin



Leadership A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the

blame and a little less than his share of the credit.









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Leadership Leadership is a privilege, and with privilege comes responsibility.



Leadership Nothing so conclusively proves a man‘s ability to lead others as what he

does from day to day to lead himself.

Thomas J. Watson



Leadership The art of leadership…consists of consolidating the attention of the

people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split

up that attention.

Adolf Hitler



Leadership Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which

they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.

Fred Smith



Leadership Team builders are the teabags of life. They perform when the water‘s

hot.

Roger Staubach



Leadership The Boss depends on authority – the Leader depends on good will.



Leadership A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.



Leadership Leadership is the ability to obtain followers.

James C. Georges



Leadership Leadership is an office of servanthood.

Richard J Foster



Leadership Do not follow where the path may lead – go instead where there is no

path and leave a trail.



Leadership Mountain tops inspire leaders, but valleys mature them.

J. Phillip Epperson



Leading The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not

protect you.



Leading I know that God will not give me anything I can‘t handle. I just wish He

didn‘t trust me so much.

Mother Teresa



Leading God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.



Learning It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already

knows.



Learning Never know too much to learn something new.



Learning He who is ashamed of asking is afraid of learning.







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Learning Learning comes by experience but the wisdom of God by revelation.



Learning A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope



Learning Learning is the kind of ignorance that distinguishes the studious.

Ambrose Bierce



Learning If you learn from losing then you haven‘t lost.

Jack Goldsmith



Learning To learn to be able a man needs to be able to learn.



Learning Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I‘m going to learn, I

have to do it by listening.



Learning It isn't what you know but what you are willing to learn.

Cliff Schimmels



Legalism Legalism is joyless because legalism is endless.

Max Lucado



Leisure Leisure and laziness are poles apart.



Leisure What is this life if, full of care

We have no time to stand and stare.

W.H. Davies



Leisure To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation.

Arnold Toynbee



Less The less there is of ‗me‘ the more room for Him there is.



Liberal I think that Christians should be both conservative and liberal: as

conservative as possible with themselves and as liberal as possible with

others.

Andy Nash



Liberty Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you

ought.



Liberty They (who) can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety

deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin



Liberty The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make

himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill









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Liberty License they cry when they mean liberty.

John Milton



Liberty Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to

majority opinion.

Hugh Scanlon



Liberty To force religion on an unwilling convert is nothing less than the rape of

the soul.



Liberty Liberty is always unfinished business.



Liberty Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



Liberty Liberty does not consist merely of denouncing tyranny, any more than

horticulture does of deploring and abusing weeds, or even pulling them

out.

Arthur Bryant



Liberty In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.

Augustine



Liberty I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your

right to say it.

Voltaire



Liberty Liberty is the only thing you can‘t have unless you give it to others.

William Allen White



Library A library is thought in cold storage.

Lord Samuel



Lies A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.



Lies The most dangerous lies are those that resemble the truth.



Lies Half the truth is often a great lie.

Benjamin Franklin



Lies No lie ever grows old.

Euripedes



Lies The truth often hurts, but it is the lie that leaves the scar.



Lies The calibre and colour of a lie do not change its real character.



Lies And after all, what is a lie? ‗Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Alexander Pope









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Lies The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson



Lies That immortal lie.

Père de Ravignan



Lies Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

O.W. Holmes



Lies The broad mass of a nation…will more easily fall victim to a big lie than

to a small one.

Adolf Hitler



Lies Men lie who lack courage to tell the truth.

Jaques Miller



Lies The mouth that lies slays the soul.

John Ray



Life How far you go in life depends on you being – tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant

of the weak. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.



Life Life is a continual struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we

cannot.

William Hazlitt



Lies Whoever lies shows that he despises God and fears men.

Montaigne



Lies With many people telling lies is not only a shortcoming, but it is one of

their major accomplishments.



Life The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the

right scale of values.

Norman Thomas



Lies A truth that‘s told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake



Life Life is a journey not a guided tour.



Life Life is not defined by what you have even when you have a lot.

Jesus (Message Luke 12:15)



Life The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylor









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Life Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the

moments that take our breath away.



Life There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Ghandi



Life Life is a do-it-yourself project.



Life Live your life so you won‘t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the

town gossip.



Life If life looks cloudy, maybe the windows of your soul need washing.



Life Life is very simple: it merely consists in learning how to accept the

impossible, how to do without the indispensable, and how to endure the

insupportable.

Kathleen Norris



Life Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

John Lennon



Life Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one

goes on.

Samuel Butler



Life Life‘s triumph song would lose it‘s melody without some minor keys.



Life It‘s a very short trip while alive, live.

Malcolm Forbes



Life May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift



Life The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Catherine Marshall



Life What controls our lives is what we‘re committed to.



Life Life, lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being

realised.

Leo Buscaglia



Life You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.



Life Life is like a bank – you can‘t take out what you haven‘t put in.



Life Life is like a game of golf: you drive hard to get to the green and end up

in a hole.



Life Plunge boldly into the thick of life.







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Goethe



Life Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.



Life If we all continued to be what we wish others to be, what happy results

might follow.



Life Some people find life an empty dream because they put nothing into it.



Life Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius



Life Once you‘re over the hill, you pick up speed.



Life Life is like a roll of bathroom tissue, the closer you get to the end, the

faster it goes.



Life The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants

another one which will last forever.

Anatold France



Life There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak



Life Life is like a spinning top. You know what happens when it stops

spinning.

Harold Burson



Life He who growls all day lives a dog‘s life.



Life Life is like a coin. We can spend it anyway we wish; but we can only

spend it once.



Life Life is like riding a bicycle. You don‘t fall off unless you stop pedalling.

Claude Pepper



Life Ecstasy is full, deep involvement in life.

John Lovell



Life Life is short, and it‘s up to you to make it sweet.

Sadie Delaney



Life Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.



Life Life is like a mirror; we get the best results when we smile at it.



Life Life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be enjoyed.



Life Live so you wouldn‘t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town

gossip.







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Will Rogers



Life Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard



Life We make a living by what we get, but we make life by what we give.



Life Wish not so much to live long, as to live well.



Life Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of

your life.

Robert Southey



Life We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer



Life If you can‘t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.



Life Life must be understood backwards; but…it must be lived forwards.

Sören Kierkegaard



Life The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an

awful hurry.

John Jensen



Life Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the

greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Life Life can be real tough…..You either learn from your problems or keep

repeating them over and over.

Marie Osmond



Life The trouble with life is that you are halfway through it before you realise

it‘s one of those do- it-yourself deals.



Like Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw



Limitation Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they‘re yours.

Richard Bach



Limits A limit on what you will do, puts a limit on what you can do.



Limits If you don‘t stretch your limits, you‘ll set them.



Limits Man sets life‘s limitations but God offers greater possibilities.



Listening His thoughts were slow, his words were few,

And never formed to glisten,







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But he was a joy to all the group –

You should have heard him listen!



Listening Big people monopolise the listening. Small people monopolise the

talking.

David Schwartz



Listening Nobody has yet listened themselves out of a job.



Listening Listening comes before understanding, understanding comes before

wisdom.



Listening Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I‘m going to learn, I

have to do it by listening.



Listening Careful listening makes you a better talker.



Listening The less you talk, the more you‘re listened to.

Abigail Van Buren



Listening A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows

something.



Little He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little.



Little Everything big starts with something little.



Little No man made a greater mistake that he who did nothing because he

could only do a little.

Edmund Burke



Little To belittle is to be little.



Little Most of the critical things in life, which become the starting points of

human destiny, are the little things.

Robert P. Smith



Little It is much more credible to do a little thing well than to do a great thing

badly.



Little Don‘t let the littleness of others brought out the littleness in you.



Live Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold Glasow



Living Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

Arnold H. Glasow



Living Live every day like it is your last day on Earth and sooner or later you will

be right.







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Living Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr



Living If you live for Him, soon you will be with Him.



Living Living is like rowing a boat. To make it keep going you have to continue

to pull on the oars.



Living You make a living by what you make; you make a life by what you give.

Winston Churchill



Living The cost of living hasn‘t affected its popularity.



Living You must live with people to know their problems and live with God in

order to solve them.

P.T. Forsyth



Living I love living. I have some problems with life, but living is the best things

they‘ve come up with so far.

Neil Simon



Living We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are

ready to die for it.

Eric Hoffer



Logic Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.



Loneliness People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Joseph F. Newton



Loneliness Loneliness is a crowded room.

Sinead O‘Connor



Loneliness No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Georges Bernanos



Loneliness I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

Julia Child



Loneliness Man‘s loneliness is but his fear of life.

Eugene O‘Neill



Loneliness Loneliness is the most desolate word in all human language.



Looks Good looks catch the eye but a good personality catches the heart.



Lord When you love the Lord of Calvary‘s hill, you‘ll cherish the law from Sinai

Mountain.

Gary Moyer







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Losers Winners never blame anybody; only losers try to blame other people for

what went wrong.

Ron Barrassi



Losers You‘re never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka



Losers The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things that

losers don‘t like doing.

Dr Phil McGraw



Losing Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

Albert Payson Terhune



Losing If you learn from losing then you haven‘t lost.

Jack Goldsmith



Lost The quickest method of finding something lost is to buy a replacement.



Love People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Mary Crowley



Love Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord.



Love If a person falls in love with himself he will have no rivals.



Love Jesus loved us to death.

David Tait



Love To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Christian Herald



Love It took more than nails to hold Jesus on the cross. His love was sufficient

even if there were no nails.



Love Real love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach



Love Love needs rules, but rules also need love.

E. Lonnie Melashenko



Love Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Gordon Williams



Love If you love God most, you will love others more.

Ray Hamilton



Love God gave us people to love and things to use - let‘s not reverse it!









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Love We cannot exercise love unless we are experiencing grace.

Jerry Bridges



Love Love me when I least deserve it, because that‘s when I really need it.



Love Love is not love until love is vulnerable.

Theodore Roethke



Love Fear forces, Love leads, Faith follows.



Love We too often love things and use people when we should be using things

and loving people.



Love Remember that love weighs more than gold!

Josephine Bacon (1876 - 1961)



Love When love is your greatest weakness, you will be the strongest person in

the world.

Garman Wold



Love Nothing in your life is more valuable than your capacity to give and

receive love.

Stephanie Dowick



Love Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above

its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful

for itself, and all things possible.

Thomas a Kempis



Love Truth becomes too strong unless softened by love, and love becomes

weak unless strengthened by truth.

Loren Seibold



Love True love demonstrates itself best in unlovely situations.



Love Charity does not look for limits; it looks for opportunities.

Jan Paulsen



Love Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is

irresistible.

W. Stanley Mooneyham



Love It‘s just as hard to live with the person you love, as it is to love the person

you live with.



Love Caring is the art of sharing,

Sharing is the art of living,

Living is the art of loving,

Loving is the art of caring.









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Love The three hardest tasks in the world are...moral acts: to return love for

hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‗ I was wrong‘.

Sydney Harris (1917 - 1986)



Love Money will buy a fine dog, but only love will make him wag his tail.

Irish Proverb



Love Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one‘s

self.

David Frost



Love If I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, only more love.

Mother Teresa



Love The capacity to love increases with the exercise of love.

James W. Ramey



Love Love is not bigheaded; it is big-hearted.

George Sweeting



Love We find love only when we give love to others

Douglas Lawson (1936 - )



Love Immature love says: ―I love you because I need you‖. Mature love says:

―I need you because I love you‖.

Erich Fromm



Love Love is an unusual game. There are either two winners or none.



Love He loves each one of us like there was only one of us to love.

Max Lucado



Love The One who knows you most loves you most.

Max Lucado



Love Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.



Love As you give love you will have love.



Love The love you receive is in proportion to the love you give.



Love Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open, and it stays.

Clutch it, and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)



Love You can give without loving, but you can‘t love without giving.



Love Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love becomes soft if it is

not hardened by truth.

John Stott







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Love Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Peter Ustinov



Love Love means never having to say you‘re sorry.

Erich Segal



Love Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a

ghoul.

Ice-T



Love True love is a portent of paradise than gives hope and a future.



Love Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other

but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



Love Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa



Love Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Phillip Brooks



Love The true measure of love is to love without measure.



Love Love is never afraid of giving too much.



Love Love and desire are the spirit‘s wings to great deeds.

Goethe



Love Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.



Love Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.



Love Love thrives in the face of all life‘s hazards save one – neglect.

J.D. Bryden



Love The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can every end.

Benjamin Disraeli



Love The greatest acts of loved are done by those who habitually perform

small acts of kindness.



Love In labours of love, everyday is payday.

Gaines Brewster



Love Love is above all the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilk









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Love Love is the both the first requirement and the ultimate experience in our

walk with Jesus.

David Tait



Love The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to

love.

W. Somerset Maugham



Love Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it,

too.

Karl Menninger



Loyalty The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the

right scale of values.

Norman Thomas



Luck I am a great believer in luck, the harder I work, the more I get of it.



Luck Luck is good planning, carefully executed.



Luck A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James Garfield



Luck Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure!



Luck Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey



Luck Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Emerson



Luck I don‘t know anything about luck. I‘ve never banked on it, and I‘m afraid

of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realising

what is opportunity and what isn‘t.

Lucille Ball



Luck People always call it luck when you‘ve acted more sensibly than they

have.

Anne Tyler



Luck The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Gary Player



Luck Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Oprah Winfrey



Luxury Luxury need not have a price – comfort is a luxury.

Geoffrey Beene



Luxury The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.







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Charlie Chaplin



Luxury In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries

and necessities.

Kenneth Galbraith



Lying Those who are given to white lies soon become colour blind.



Lying The language of faith and the language of falsehood have two different

vocabularies. Those fluent in the language of falsehood find terms like

confession and repentance hard to pronounce.

Max Lucado



Lying Equivocation is halfway to lying, as lying is the whole way to hell.

William Penn



Lying The ripple of today‘s lie is tomorrow‘s wave and next year‘s flood.

Max Lucado



Lying Lord how this world is given to lying.

Shakespeare



Lying Wherever there is whispering, there is lying.



Lying A liar is never believed even if he tells the truth.



Lying One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the

cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain



Lying A lie gets halfway around the world before Truth has a chance to get its

pants on.

Winston Churchill



Majority Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause

and reflect.

Mark Twain



Majority Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same

side.



Malice Malice has a thousand eyes but love is blind.



Malice With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as

God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Abraham Lincoln



Mammon Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that

there isn‘t a God.

Logan Smith







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Management You manage things; you lead people.

Admiral Grace Murray Hopper



Management Management is a word that only makes sense when people come first.



Manipulation There‘s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for

themselves.

Meg Greenfield



Manners The best manners are strained by the addition of pride.



Manners Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves

and how little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain



Manners Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away

with anything.

Evelyn Waugh



Manners Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

Emily Post



Manners Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste, and

style mixed together so that you don‘t need any of those things.

P.J. O‘Rourke



Manufacturers We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and

still others make excuses.



Many Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so

few.

Winston Churchill



Marriage Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with

the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw



Marriage The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as

incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Harold Nicholson



Marriage The bonds of matrimony are a good investment, only when the interest is

kept up.



Marriage I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Groucho Marx



Marriage Marriage has a ring. Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering.









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Marriage How ironic that the shortest sentence is ―I am,‖ and the longest sentence

can be ―I do‖.



Marriage The heart of marriage is memories.

Bill Cosby



Marriage It takes two to make a marriage a success, but only one a failure.



Marriage A successful marriage is a process not an event.

David Tait



Marriage By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you‘ll become happy. If you

get a bad one, you‘ll become a philosopher.

Socrates



Marriage Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they

blossom when we love the one we marry.

Tom Mullen



Marriage Marriage is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn‘t

expected.



Marriage God help the man who won‘t marry until he finds the perfect woman, and

God hep him still more if he finds her.

B. Tillett



Marriage It doesn‘t much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next

morning that it was someone else.

Samuel Rogers



Marriage To keep your marriage brimming

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you‘re wrong, admit it,

Whenever you‘re right, shut up.

Ogden Nash



Marriage Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray



Marriage Marriage is like vitamins: we supplement each other‘s minimum daily

requirements.



Marriage A good marriage is the union of two forgivers.

Ruth Bell Graham



Marriage Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she‘s a householder.

Thornton Wilder



Marriage The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries







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Marriage To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the

knowledge of the gospel.

Martin Luther



Marriage Of course, the Christian should love his wife. He is supposed to love his

neighbour, and since his wife is his nearest neighbour, she should be his

deepest love.

Martin Luther



Marriage Now you will feel no rain,

For each of you will be shelter to the other.



Now you will feel no cold,

for each of you will be warmth to the other.



Now there is no more loneliness,

for each of you will be companion to the other.



Now you are two bodies,

but there is only one life before you.



Go now to your dwelling place,

to enter into the days of your togetherness.



And may your days be good and long

upon the earth

Apache Wedding ceremony.



Mathematics The best mathematical equation I have ever seen:

1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given.



Matter Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr



Matter In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did

you live? How deeply did you learn to let go?

Jack Komfield



Matters What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

James W. Kennedy



Maturity You grow up the day you have the first real laugh – at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore



Maturity Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.



Maturity To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to

laugh at yourself is maturity.









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Measure The ultimate measure of a person is not where he or she stands in

moments of comfort or convenience, but where he or she stands in times

of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King



Measure The measure of a man is not how great his faith is but how great his love

is.



Mediation Those who in a quarrel interpose must often wipe a bloody nose.



Mediocrity Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Somerset Maugham



Mediocrity Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly

recognises genius.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Mediocrity Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre

minds.

Albert Einstein



Mediocrity Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux



Mediocrity A definition of ‗mediocrity‘: best of the worst and worst of the best.



Meetings If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has

not achieved, and never will achieve its full potential, that word is

meetings.



Memory If you want to test your memory try to remember what you worried about

a year ago today.



Memory It‘s no use having a good memory unless you have something good to

remember.



Memory Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our

children.

Charles Swindoll



Memory Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory never wears out.

Libbie Fudim



Memories Souvenirs are perishable. Fortunately, memories are not.

Susan Spano



Memories Happy memories never wear out. Relive them as often as you want.



Memories Treasure the memories of life – they are the cushions of old age.









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Mercy Relationships don‘t thrive because the guilty are punished but because

the innocent are merciful.

Max Lucado



Mercy It is quite easy for mercy to degenerate into soupy indulgence.

Woodrow W. Whidden



Message We don‘t change the message, the message changes us.



Mind You can tell when people are well informed. Their views are pretty much

like your own.



Mind Your mind is like a parachute. If you expect it to work, it first has to be

open.



Mind Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.



Mind The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill



Mind A mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original

dimensions.



Mind God‘s medium of change for any person is via the mind.



Mind Man‘s mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original

dimensions.



Mind Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds

discuss people.



Mind An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought

into it.



Mind Some so-called open minds should be closed for repairs.



Mind My mind contains many good ideas, but it is not always easy to squeeze

one out.



Mind The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter

their lives by altering their attitude of mind.

William James



Mind A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood.



Mind If you‘re too open-minded, your brains will fall out.



Mind Give others a piece of your heart, not a piece of your mind.



Mind Giving others a piece of your mind robs yourself!







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Mind Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.

Washington Irving



Mind Let the minds clash but keep the fists down.

Martin Luther



Ministry To the Christian, ministry is a requirement, not a calling.

David Tait



Ministry The ministry of example is the most powerful ministry of all.

David Tait



Minorities Minorities…are almost always in the right.

Sydney Smith



Miracles Anyone who puts wholehearted effort into

anything can perform miracles.

Anne Fadiman



Miracles We don‘t believe in miracles, we rely on them.



Miracles Don‘t just believe in miracles – rely on them.



Miracles Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of

them.

Willa Cather



Miracles It is easy to have faith when looking at a miracle, but he real test is when

there are no signs.



Miracles Difficulties to a Christian are only miracles that have not yet happened.



Miracles Miracles are nothing other than God‘s advancing truth seen with

surprised eyes.

Gerald G. May



Miser The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he

can make.

Robert Emmet Sherwood



Misery Misery doesn‘t love company. Misery doesn‘t love anything.

Michael Bryant



Misery Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,

William Shakespeare



Misery Pain and suffering is inevitable but misery is optional.









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Misfortunes Laugh at your own misfortunes always, at the misfortunes of others

never.



Misfortunes The fatal law of gravity: when you are down everything falls on you.

Sylvia Townsend Warner



Misfortunes In the misfortunes of our best friends, we always find something which is

not displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld



Misfortunes We can always find the strength to bear the misfortunes of others – and

to take secret pleasure in them. If the unfortunate ones happen to be our

friends, that pleasure is intensified.

La Rochefoucauld



Misfortunes Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on

your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens



Mission Mission is to the church as the fire is to burning.

Emil Brunner



Mission Make your life a mission – not an intermission.

Arnold Glasow



Mission Every heart without Christ is a mission field. Every heart with Christ is a

missionary.

John Wesley (?)



Missionary I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had only one Son and He was a

missionary and a physician. A poor, poor imitation I am or wish to be. In

this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die.

David Livingstone



Mistakes Wise men learn by other men‘s mistakes, fools by their own.



Mistakes Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde



Mistakes Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.



Mistakes Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni



Mistakes It is always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your

mistakes seem worthwhile.



Mistakes Reportedly IBM‘s Tom Watson was asked if he was going to fire an

employee who made a mistake that cost IBM $600,000. He said, ―No, I









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just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his

experience?‖



Mistakes A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit

from them, and strong enough to correct them.



Mistakes Mistakes are always the best teachers.

J.A. Froude



Mistakes We don‘t make mistakes. We just have learnings.

Anne Wilson Schaef



Mistakes Some mistakes are too nice to do only once.



Mistakes Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

Weston H. Agor



Mistakes Nothing is ‗opened by mistake‘ more than the mouth.



Mistakes Most people don‘t make the same mistake twice, they make it three or

four times.



Mistakes There is nothing wrong with making mistakes – just don‘t respond with

encores.



Mistakes No man made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he

could only do a little

Edmund Burke



Mistakes A person who learns from their mistakes is smart. A person who learns

from other people‘s mistakes is smarter.



Mistakes If it were true that we profit by our mistakes then most of us would die

wealthier than we are today.



Mistakes Learn from the mistakes of others. You can‘t live long enough to make

them all yourself.



Mistakes A man may make many mistakes, but he is not a failure until he starts

blaming someone else for them.



Mistakes Wise men admit their mistakes, fools defend their mistakes.



Mistakes It isn‘t a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing

else.

Anthony Weston



Mistakes The best way to deal with your mistakes is to admit them.



Mistakes It is all right to forget your mistakes if you remember the lessons.







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Moderation I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice!

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no

virtue!

Barry Goldwater



Moderation Nothing in excess.

(On the Temple of Apollo at Delphi)



Moderation Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Cicero



Moderation Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like

excess.

Oscar Wilde



Moderation To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

St Augustine of Hippo



Moderation Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from

acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham



Modesty A modest person is usually admired – if people hear of them.

Howe



Modesty I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty…But I am too busy

thinking about myself.

Edith Sitwell



Modesty Have more than you show, speak less than you know.



Moments Life‘s precious moments don‘t have value, unless they are shared.



Moments We do not remember days; we remember moments.



Money Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport to

everywhere except heaven, and as a provider of everything except

happiness.



Money When a man says that money can do anything, that settles it; he hasn‘t

any.

Ed Howe



Money A lot of money is tainted. ‗Taint yours, and ‗taint mine.



Money Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.

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Money It‘s true that you can‘t take it with you, but folks ought to remember that

how you got it may determine where you go.



Money Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if

you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

Clint Murchison Jnr



Money If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among

themselves there wouldn‘t be enough to go around.

Christina Stead



Money Money can‘t buy you happiness….but it does bring you a more pleasant

form of misery.

Spike Milligan



Money Money can buy neither class nor contentment, neither heaven nor

happiness. It may boost the ego but falls way short of eternity.



Money Money talks, but it is not wise to listen to it.





Money The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in

your pocket

Kin Hubbard



Money Money doesn‘t buy class



Monopolise Big people monopolise the listening, small people monopolise the talking.

David Schwartz



Morality Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Morality The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its

children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Morality I have never yet seen anyone whose desire to build up his moral power

was as strong as sexual desire.

Confucius



Morals Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what‘s right.

Isaac Asimov



More The watchword of our consumptive society is very loud and assertive –

more. Enough is never enough.

Charles Swindoll



Mother My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw

George Washington







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Mother Most mothers are instinctive philosophers

Harriet Beecher Stowe



Mother Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with

ease

Liva Alther



Mother The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me

Thomas A. Edison



Mother Men are what their mothers made them

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Mother By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not

have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class

Anne Morrow Lindbergh



Mother The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom

Henry Ward Beecher



Mother All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

Abraham Lincoln



Mother No man is poor who has a godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln



Mother Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

Lin Yutang



Mother God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers

Jewish Proverb



Mother The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will

always find forgiveness

Honoré de Balzac



Motivation People tend to stay motivated when they see the value to them of the

things they are asked to do.



Mouth It‘s better to keep one‘s mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it

and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln



Mouth Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you

won‘t have a leg to stand on.



Move The people who move the world are the ones who do not let the world

move them.









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Movies If you are not an adult when you go to see a movie these days, you are

when you come out.



Music Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the

memory with difficulty.

Thomas Beecham



Music Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison



Music Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein



Nagging Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Edith Summerskill



Nature Nature is an outstretched hand pointing to God.



Nature To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold

infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

William Blake



Necessity Necessity is the mother of invention.



Necessity Nothing have I found stronger than necessity.

Euripides



Necessity Necessity never made a good bargain.

Benjamin Franklin



Necessity Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the

argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt



Need When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is

all you need.



Need If Jesus is all you have, you realise He is all you need.



Need You will never know that Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.



Need We are all spiritual charity cases, taking where we don‘t give, receiving

what we don‘t deserve, and getting what we don‘t earn.



Negativity The nicest thing about being quiet and negative is that you will never be

asked to head a committee



Negativity If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.









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Neglect People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do

something they can‘t.

Edgar Watson Howe



Neglect Love thrives in the face of all life‘s hazards save one – neglect.

J.D. Bryden



Negotiation Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy



Neighbour The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies;

probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton



Neurosis A neurosis is a secret you don‘t know you‘re keeping.

Kenneth Tynan



Neutrality Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence

encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel



Never ―One of these days‖ is none of these days.

English proverb



New Birth Spiritual rebirthing requires a capable Parent, not an able infant.

Max Lucado



New Year In the New Year, may you right hand always be stretched out in

friendship, but never in want.

Irish Toast



Nobility Genuine nobility comes not through birth or position, but through the

development of a godly character.

David Tait



Noise Noise produces nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg

cackles as though she has laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain



Nostalgia Nostalgia is guilty of wilful distortion and depends on subjective selection

aided by embellishment and convenient oversight.

Richard Wolfe



Nostalgia Rose-tinted retrospection may have much to do with the memory of those

who were young at the time.

Richard Wolfe



Nothing He who expects nothing shall never be disappointed.



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Ivy Compton-Burnett



Nothing He who knows nothing is confident about everything.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Nothing Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alex Hamilton



Nothing God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can

make nothing out of him‖.

Martin Luther



Nothing All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke



Nothing No man made a greater mistake that he who did nothing because he

could only do a little.

Edmund Burke



Nothing The worst day of a man‘s life is the day he sits down and plans how he

can get something for nothing.

Thomas Jefferson



Nothing When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find that God is all

you need.



Now Our obsession with what‘s next denies us a full appreciation of the

special moments that are happening now.

John Thurston



Obedience Obedience is the mother of success, the wife of safety.

Aeschylus



Obedience Wicked men obey for fear but the good for love.

Aristotle



Obedience Selective obedience is not obedience at all. It is just convenience.



Obligations Count your obligations name them one by one and it will surprise you

what the Lord wants done.



Observation Observation is one of the most enduring of the pleasures of life.



Observation Observation is the best know substitute for imagination.



Obstacles Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off

the goal.

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Obstacles The more obstacles you have the more opportunities there are for God to

do something.

Clarence Jones



Obstinacy Obstinacy is the lowest form of determination.



Obstinacy The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes

from a strong will, and the other from a strong won‘t.



Obstinacy An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.

Alexander Pope



Obstinacy Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy: we do not easily

believe beyond what we see.

La Rochefoucauld



Offense Christians have Teflon hearts. An offense never sticks.

Gordon Bietz



Offense You will never offend a person by returning a smile.



One I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do

something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller



Openness An open hand is the natural product of an open mind.



Opinion A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert Prochnow



Opinion He that complies against his will, is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler



Opinion Thank God, in these days of enlightenment and establishment, everyone

has a right to his own opinions, and chiefly to the opinion that nobody

else has a right to theirs.

Ronald Knox



Opinion The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no

good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder‘s

lack of rational conviction.

Bertrand Russell



Opinion Opinion is good men is but knowledge in the making

John Milton



Opinion Some praise at morning what they blame at night;

But always think the last opinion right.

Alexander Pope









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Opinion The person who never changed any of their opinions never corrected any

of their mistakes.



Opinion Pray to be delivered from the tyranny of human opinion.



Opinion The opinions of others can damage your reputation, but only you can

damage your character.



Opportunity In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Schweitzer



Opportunity Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get

money without earning it.



Opportunity Procrastination is opportunity‘s natural assassin.

Victor Kiam (1926 -)



Opportunity There is nothing more empowering than an idea whose time has come.



Opportunity Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls

and looks like work.

Thomas Edison



Opportunity What we call adversity God calls opportunity.



Opportunity Opportunities can drop in your lap if you have your lap where

opportunities drop.



Opportunity The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of the

opportunity.



Opportunity Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser



Opportunity We are all faced with magnificent opportunities, brilliantly disguised as

impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll



Opportunity The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you

seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security

that you desire.

Brian Tracy



Opportunity Opportunity is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a

thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.



Opportunity An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a

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Opportunity When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters –

one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Saul David Slinky





Opportunity Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround

us daily.

Sally Koch



Opportunity Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.



Opportunity Opportunity knocks but once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.



Opportunity Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your door forever.



Opportunities Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to undo

them.

Charles Cotton



Opportunities The more obstacles you have the more opportunities there are for God to

do something.

Clarence Jones



Oppression Truth rejects with scorn every semblance of coercion; error greets with

outstretched hands any and all forms of suppression and oppression.

C.H. Edwards



Optimism Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Helen Keller



Optimism There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright

side of things.



Optimism To the optimist, a fireplace is a centre of warmth and beauty, to the

pessimist, it is a source of smoke and ashes.



Optimism Optimism: A cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing

though in hot water up to its nose.



Optimism Comedy is acting out optimism.

Robin Williams



Optimist An optimist is a person who thinks he can solve a traffic jam by blowing

his horn.



Optimist A pessimist sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher

sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn‘t see the clouds at all –

he‘s walking on them.

D.O. Flynn









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Optimist I‘m an optimist, because I don‘t think pessimism and faith are easy

bedfellows.

John Stott



Optimist An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity.



Optimist I‘m an optimist – I‘ve read the last page of the Bible.

Billy Graham



Optimist The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and

the pessimist fears this is true.

James Cabell



Optimist A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist

makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Reginald B. Mansell



Optimist An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist

stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Bill Vaughan



Optimist The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement.

William Arthur Ward



Options If Jesus is one of many options, He is no option.

Max Lucado



Order Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of

education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Benjamin Disraeli



Organisation An organisation that gets stuck in a groove is unlikely to make records.



Orthodoxy By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy

synonymous with ignorance.

Erasmus



Orthodoxy There is no orthodoxy so despicable as that which sneers at scholarship.

Joseph Parker



Ostentation Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Aesop



Ostentation An ostentations man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has

committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Joseph Addison



Others Modified Golden Rule: Treat others first the way you hope they will treat

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Others You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone.

Wooden



Ought A person is never what he ought to be until he is doing what he ought to

be doing.



Pain If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't

been born yet.

Neil Simon



Pain God whispers to us in our prosperity, He speaks to us in our

ordinariness. But He shouts to us in out pain. It is His megaphone to

rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis



Paradox Christianity is a religion of paradoxes: the way up is down; the to get is to

give; the way to be first is to be last; and the way to live is to die.



Parents To understand your parent‘s love, you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverb



Parents The perfect parent is the person with excellent child-rearing theories and

no actual children.

Dave Barry



Parents Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every

effort to teach them good manners.



Parents It‘s important for parents to live the same things they teach.



Passion One person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who only have an

interest.



Passion If passion drives you let reason hold the reins.



Passion Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you.

say what you‘ve got to say, and say it hot.



Past You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke



Past Study the past if you would define the future.

Confucius



Past The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Edmund Burke



Past Guilt is concerned with the past, worry is concerned about the future, but

contentment enjoys the present.









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Past God forgets the past. Imitate Him.

Max Lucado



Past Things aren‘t like they used to be and they never were.



Past The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion,

however persistent.

Albert Einstein



Past Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

John F Kennedy



Past Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present

controls the past.

George Orwell



Past Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana



Past God never reminds us of the past but always presents the future.



Past You can‘t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about

the future.



Pastor If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it

has.



Patience Everyone has patience. Successful people learn to use it.



Patience Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping the

gears.



Patience Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Benjamin Franklin



Patience The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the

egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold Glasow



Patience Patience is much admired in the driver behind you but reviled in the

driver ahead.



Patience The key to almost everything is patience.



Patience Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine



Patience He that can have patience can have what he will.

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Patience Patience is the ability to stand something as long as it happens to the

other fellow.



Patience Patience is a quality that is most needed when it is exhausted.



Patience Patient waiting is often the best way of doing God‘s will.



Patience Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, subdues pride and

bridles the tongue.



Patience I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher



Patience The ability to wait has become an obsolete phenomenon.

Renee Mill



Patience Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine



Patience The trouble with people today is that they want to get to the Promised

Land without going through the wilderness.



Patience Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Thomas Hardy



Patience Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God‘s will.

Collier



Patriotism Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson



Patriotism You will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the

human race.

George Bernard Shaw



Patriotism Breathes there a man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land.

Sir Walter Scott



Peace Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Cicero



Peace Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish

through eternal peace.

Adolf Hitler



Peace Peace is not the absence of trouble. Peace is the presence of God.









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Peace Peace is not a feeling, but a place.

David Tait



Peace Peace won by compromise is a short-lived achievement.



Peace Peace cannot be built on exclusion.

Gerry Adams



Peace War within? Sign the Lord‘s ‗Peace Treaty‘ today.

David Tait



Peace Unless mankind can extend the circle of his compassion to include all

living things, he will never, himself, know peace.

Albert Schweitzer



Peace He that would live in peace and at ease must no speak all he knows or all

he sees.

Benjamin Franklin



Peace His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which

circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado



Peace Sometimes God calms the storm – other times He calms the storm in us.



Peace You can‘t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace

unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X



Peace He is the happiest, be he king or peasant who finds peace in his house.

Goethe



Peace Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace! Where there is hatred let

me sow love.

Francis of Assisi



Peace Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with

it.



Peace A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are

subdued and neither party the loser.

William Shakespeare



Peace Two things rob people of their peace of mind: work unfinished and work

not yet begun.



Peace Peaces starts with a smile.



People Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small

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People God must love the common people because He made so many of them.



People We too often love things and use people when we should be using things

and loving people.



People People are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they

are in hot water.



People People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-Tzu



People Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person

to be loved.

Barbara Johnson



Perception Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare.

J. Oswald Sanders



Perception If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is

– infinite.

William Blake



Perception We see things not as they are but as we are.

Anais Nin



Perfect No one is perfect until you fall in love with them.



Perfect If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would

have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.



Perfect There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it.



Perfect God help the man who won‘t marry until he finds the perfect woman, and

God help him still more if he finds her.

B. Tillett



Perfection Pride thinks it has reached perfection but reality tells the opposite.



Perfection The closest anyone ever comes to perfection is on a job application form.



Perfection Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.

William Shawn



Perfection No prison is as endless as the prison of perfection.

Max Lucado



Perfection All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the

basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner







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Perfection People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which

they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Edith Schaeffer



Perfectionism Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Winston Churchill



Perfectionist A perfectionist is one who takes great pains, and gives them to everyone

else.



Permission It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.



Permission No one can ruin your day without your permission.



Persecution Persecution doesn‘t come from bad people trying to make other people

bad. It comes from good people trying to make other people good.

Roland Hegstad



Perseverance Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the

hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich (1943-)



Perseverance Perseverance perseveres.

Donald Tait



Perseverance In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always

wins – not through strength but through perseverance.



Perseverance The race goes not always to the swift…but to those who keep on

running.



Perseverance By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Perseverance Few things are impossible to diligence and skill …. Great works are

performed not by strengths but by perseverance.

Samuel Johnson



Perseverance Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which

difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams



Perseverance Perseverance is keeping on running the race with feet blistered by the

problems of life.

Donald Tait



Perseverance The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes

from a strong will, and the other from a strong won‘t.









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Perseverance God is with those who persevere.

Koran



Perseverance Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing till you get there.



Persistence Persistence is simply enjoying the distance between the fulfilment of

God‘s promises.



Persistence Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Calvin Coolidge



Personality Personality has the power to open many doors, but character keeps them

open.



Personality Good looks catch the eye but a good personality catches the heart.



Personality Personality is the only safe press agent.



Pessimist A pessimist is a person who absorbs sunshine and radiates gloom.



Pessimist If you keep saying that things are going to be bad, you have a chance of

being a prophet.

Isaac Singer



Pessimist A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist

makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Reginald B. Mansell



Pessimist An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a

calamity in every opportunity.



Pessimist A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear that he will

feel worse when he feels better.



Pessimist I‘m an optimist, because I don‘t think pessimism and faith are easy

bedfellows.

John Stott



Pessimist The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement.

William Arthur Ward



Pessimist A pessimist is one who is always blowing out the light to see how dark it

is.



Pessimist A pessimist mourns the future.



Pessimist A pessimist sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher

sees both sides, and shrugs; and optimist doesn‘t‘ see the clouds at all—

he‘s walking on them.

D.O. Flynn







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Pessimist Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects to be paid back.



Pessimist A pessimist is one who when confronted with two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde



Pessimism To the optimist, a fireplace is a centre of warmth and beauty; to the

pessimist, it is a source of smoke and ashes.



Pessimism Pessimism is depreciated will-to-live.

Albert Schweitzer



Philosophy Philosophy is a study whereby a person can be unhappy more

intelligently.



Philosophy Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by

means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein



Pity It‘s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to

flush when you are done.



Pity Pity sees the suffering and wants to ease the pain; passion sees injustice

and wants to settle the score. Pity implores the powerful to pay attention;

passion warns them about what will happen if they don‘t.

Nancy Gibbs



Plagiarism If you steal from one author, it‘s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it‘s

research.

Wilson Mizner



Planning If you don‘t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Bert Connell



Planning People do not plan to be failures, they just fail to plan.



Planning To do great and important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and

not quite enough time.



Planning Proper prior planning prevents pitifully poor performance.



Planning Plan ahead – it wasn‘t raining when Noah built the Ark.

General Features Corp.



Plans make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men‘s blood and probably

themselves will not be realised. Make big plans; aim high in hope and

work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram, once recorded, will not

die.

Daniel Burnham









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Platitude A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin



Pleasant There is no time like the pleasant.

Oliver Herford



Pleasure Pleasure is a jewel which will only retain its lustre in a setting of work.



Pleasure One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen



Pleasure The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to

have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb



Pleasure Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Seldon



Pleasure The trouble with mixing business with pleasure is that pleasure usually

comes out on top.



Pleasure The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot



Pleasure One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Jane Austen



Pleasure Short is the pleasure that guilty pleasure brings.

Euripedes



Poise Poise is the art of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof.



Politeness He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan



Politeness Some people are kind, polite and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their

pews.



Politicians What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Edward Langley



Politics Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce



Politics Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart

enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it‘s

important.

Eugene McCarthy



Politics The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.







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Ambrose Bierce



Politics Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp



Politics The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be

governed by people worse than themselves.

Plato



Positive Positive thinking without positive faith will result in positive failure.



Possessions Do you possess your possessions or do your possessions possess you?



Possible My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.



Possible My challenge was not to do the impossible – but to learn to live with the

possible.

Sue Bender



Possibilities You see things and you say ―Why?‖ I dream things that never were and

say ―Why not?‖

George Bernard Shaw



Possibilities In the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice

the distance of any bird flying alone.



Possibilities Probably impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Aristotle



Possibilities Whether you think you can or think you can‘t, you‘re right.



Postmodernism Postmodernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Robert Hewison



Potential If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for

what he could be, he will become what he could be.



Potential With God your potential is exponential.



Potential If we would do everything we are capable of doing, we would literally

astonish ourselves.

Thomas Edison



Poverty Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin



Poverty I‘ve taken a vow of poverty. To annoy me send money.



Power The task ahead of you is never as great as the Power behind you.









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Power Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger



Power Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.



Power Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton



Power The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without

abusing it.

Lord Macaulay



Power The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is

childish.

Max Lucado



Power Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never

will.

Frederick Douglass



Power Coercion is the kind of power that most people understand best.

Michael Korda



Power To have what we want, is riches; but to be able to do without, is power.



Power The feeling of having no power over people and events is generally

unbearable to us – when we feel helpless and miserable. No one wants

less power; everyone wants more.

Robert Greene



Power The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.



Power Don‘t just tell God the size of your troubles, try telling your troubles the

power of your God.



Praise Praise can give criticism a lead around the first turn and still win the race.

Bern Williams



Praise Praise to a human being represents what sunlight, water, and soil are to

a plant - the climate in which one grows best.

Earl Nightingale (1921 -)



Praise Praise can be your most valuable asset – as long as you don‘t aim it at

yourself.



Praise I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Great (1729 - 1796)



Praise The best way to get praise is to die.

Italian proverb







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Praise Praise swells our heads and shrinks our brains.

Max Lucado



Praise Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.



Praise To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be

above such transparent egotism.

Will Durant (1885 - 1981)



Prayer Courage is fear that has said its prayers.



Prayer Prayer is not preparing for the work. It is the work.

Oswald Chalmers



Prayer The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Georges Bernanos



Prayer Prayer opens locked doors to new possibilities.

Neil Watts



Prayer Meaningful prayer originates from the heart, not the mouth.

David Tait



Prayer We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Oswald Chambers



Prayer God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press the button to get

things.

Harry Emerson Fosdick



Prayer Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.

William Cowper



Prayer Coincidences start happening when we start praying.



Prayer God‘s answers are wiser than our prayers.



Prayer Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to

ask.

Billy Graham



Prayer The church is prayer-conditioned.



Prayer The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance

between your knees and the floor.



Prayer Prayer is asking for rain, and faith is carrying an umbrella.



Prayer Prayer is the food of the soul.







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David Tait



Prayer If you speak only as long as you pray most speakers would be

applauded.



Prayer The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.



Prayer Praying for others is not being magnanimous but rather acknowledging

that the family of God is more inclusive than human nature would let us

believe.



Prayer Prayer: Don‘t give God instructions – just report for duty!



Prayer He who ceases to pray, ceases to prosper.

John Ray



Prayer Humour is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr



Prayer A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.



Prayer Powerful prayer precedes perfect performance.

David Tait



Prayer Prayer lets Satan know where you stand.

Dennis Farley



Prayer Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.



Prayer Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our

attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief.

Charles Swindoll



Prayer The heart may only whisper a prayer, yet God hears and answers.



Prayer Do not punish me by granting that which I wish or ask.

Saint Teresa



Prayer Prayer is the key to real success; we stand tallest when we are on our

knees.



Prayer Daily prayers will diminish your cares.



Prayer God is not moved by men of standing, but by men of kneeling.

Max Lucado



Prayer When thou prayest rather let thy heart be without words than thy words

without heart.

John Bunyan









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Prayer Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue

working as if it were a prayer.

Mother Teresa



Prayer You are never so high as when you are on your knees.



Prayer Prayer is not the last extremity but the first necessity.



Prayer The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luther



Prayer I have learned more from one prayer that I might have learned from

much reading and speculation.

Martin Luther



Prayer Without prayer, faith is without power, insipid, even dead.

John Calvin



Prayer For every one that says ‗Speak Lord for Thy servant heareth‘, ten say

‗Hear Lord, for Thy servant speaketh‘.



Prayer Prayer does not need proof; it needs practice.



Prayer God answers knee mail.



Prayer If your knees knock, kneel on them.



Prayer Don‘t ask God to do what you want. Ask God to do what is right.

Max Lucado



Prayer Prayer is a communication medium which has unlimited talk time and no

batteries to run flat.



Prayer It is not possible to have an authentic spiritual life without prayer.

Robert Badenas



Prayer More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson



Prayer Prayer is beyond us. It can only be done by the grace of God; but by the

grace of God it can be done.

Robert Warren



Prayer We are apt to think that prayer is asking God for what we want, whereas

true prayer is asking God for what He wants.

William Barclay



Prayer Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard









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Prayer Prayer is when burdens change shoulders.



Prayer Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Adam Clarke



Prayer A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.



Prayer It‘s hard to stumble when you‘re on your knees.



Prayer Formal moments of prayer are intensified encounters within a continuous

process of awareness.

Jack Dominian.



Preaching Go out today and preach the gospel....... and if you must, use words.

St. Francis of Assisi



Preaching It is easier to preach ten sermons than to live one.



Preaching Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have

something to say.

Richard Whately



Preaching A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about

you.



Precedent A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli



Prediction It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction …….. especially about

the future.

Neils Bohr



Prejudice The tight skirts of prejudice shorten the steps of progress.



Prejudice Thinking is what a great number of people think they are doing when they

are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James



Prejudice Prejudice is a great time saver. It enables one to form opinions without

bothering to get the facts.



Prejudice Prejudice is a lazy man‘s substitute for thinking.



Prejudice Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda.

Kofi Annan



Prejudice No prejudice has ever been able to prove its case in the court of reason.



Prejudice Prejudice usually squints when it looks and lies when it talks.









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Prejudice Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and

renders the present inaccessible.

Maya Angelou



Prejudice Prejudice is a loose idea tightly held.



Prejudice Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt



Prejudice A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely

rearranging their prejudice.



Preparation Fortune favours the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur



Preparation We are never prepared for what we expect.

James A. Michener



Preparation Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular

preparation.

Roger Staubach



Presence We can never really go where God is not, and where He is, all is well.



Presence Peace is not the absence of trouble. Peace is the presence of God.



Presence Those who taste God‘s presence have declared spiritual bankruptcy, and

are aware of their spiritual crisis.

Max Lucado



Present Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery.

Today is a gift, That‘s why we call it

‗the present‘.

Linda Brand Jones



Present The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson



Present The present interests me more than the past and the future more than

the present.

Benjamin Disraeli



Present God is the One Who comes to us out of the future, picks up the broken

pieces of the past, to give us a meaningful present.



Present Yesterday is a cancelled cheque, tomorrow is a promissory note; today is

the only cash we have, so spend it wisely.

Kay Lyons









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Present The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of

life.

John Clare



Present There is no time like the present.

Oliver Herford



Present Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

John F Kennedy



Present You can‘t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about

the future.



Present Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present

controls the past.

George Orwell



Present The present is a point just passed.

David Russell



Present We lose the joy of living in the present when we worry about the future.



Pressure A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.



Pretense The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we

pretend to have.



Pretense People are funny; they spend money they don‘t have to buy things they

don‘t need to impress people they don‘t like.



Pretense A person is never so ridiculous for the qualities he has as for those he

pretends to have.

La Rochefoucald



Pride Pride is the never-failing vice of fools.



Pride Pride thinks it has reached perfection but reality tells the opposite.



Pride When pride prevails, reason disappears.



Pride Pride is simply competitive.

C.S. Lewis



Pride Pride is usually not in something we have or do – but something we have

or do ‗better‘.



Pride The best manners are strained by the addition of pride.



Pride Pride grows…by the reflection in the mirror.







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Ovid



Pride People who are full of themselves ought to diet.



Pride Pride is the spring of malice and desire of revenge, and of rash anger

and contention.

Archbishop Leighton



Pride People who are carried away by their own importance seldom have far to

walk back.



Principle A man without principle never draws much interest.



Principle A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli



Principle A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Ed Howe



Principle In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand

like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson



Principle It is always easier to fight for one‘s principles that to live up to them.

Alfred Adler



Principle You can‘t learn too soon that he most useful things about a principle is

that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham



Principle Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may

cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams



Priorities Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can

be counted, counts.

Einstein (?)



Priorities The person who cannot see the ultimate becomes a slave to the

immediate.



Prison No prison is as endless as the prison of perfection.

Max Lucado



Prison Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Richard Lovelace



Prisoner To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.



Privilege Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.







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Peter Drucker



Problem Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Richard Bach



Problem If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver



Problems Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser



Problems If you think your problems are behind you, chances are you are driving a

school bus.



Problems Problems that go away by themselves usually come back by themselves/



Problems Watch for big problems; they disguise big opportunities.





Problems The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve

theirs.



Problems The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level

of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein



Problems The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.



Problems You will be remembered only for two things: the problems you solve or

the ones you create.

Mike Murdock



Problems A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.



Problems You must live with people to know their problems and live with God in

order to solve them.

P.T. Forsyth



Procrastination Procrastination is opportunity‘s natural assassin.

Victor Kiam (1926 -)



Procrastination Waiting for a brain wave is the surest way of missing the tide.



Procrastination The reason some people don‘t go very far in life is because they sidestep

opportunity and shake hands with procrastination.



Procrastination Procrastination is the ability to keep up with yesterday.

Don Marquis









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Procrastination Things may come to those who wait – but only the things left by those

who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln



Procrastination Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young



Procrastination If you want to make an easy job seem hard, just keep putting off doing it.





Procrastination If it weren‘t for the last minute, nothing would get done.



Procrastination Procrastination means you know what you need to do and you don't do it.

If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You are thinking

Lynn Lively



Profession Believe in Christ and do whatever needs to be done in your profession.

Martin Luther



Progress Those who don‘t take chances don‘t make advances. Even a turtle

doesn‘t get ahead unless he sticks his neck out.



Progress The slogan of progress is changing from a full dinner pail to the full

garage.

Herbert Hoover



Progress Progress is mostly a matter of changing old worries for new ones.



Promises Promises may get friends, but ‗tis performance that keeps them.

Benjamin Franklin



Promises God‘s promises are like the stars; the darker the night, the brighter they

shine.

D. Nicholas



Promises God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.



Proof By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon



Propaganda Propaganda can be defined as the art of managing one‘s legend.

Régis Debray



Propaganda Anything that sounds like propaganda is not good propaganda.

David Hare



Prosperity Prosperity is buying things we don‘t need, with money we don‘t have, to

impress people we don‘t like.



Prosperity In prosperity a lot of folks are better off than they are better.







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Prosperity Few of us can stand prosperity – especially of the other fellow.



Prosperity He who swells in prosperity shall shrink in adversity.



Prosperity The problem with prosperity is that we all want to own God‘s ‗cattle on a

thousand hills‘ personally.

Donald Tait



Prosperity Prosperity is good, but to those who can stand it, adversity is better.

Henry Ward Beecher



Prosperity In the Old Testament success is measured by prosperity, in the New

Testament by sacrifice. Many believers prefer to live in the past.

Donald Tait



Prosperity Our view of prosperity is related to what others possess. God views it

differently.

Donald Tait



Prosperity Sometimes virtue and prosperity have trouble living together.



Prosperity Prosperity is when you pay instalments on ten things instead of one.



Prosperity Real prosperity is God‘s view of my stewardship of His property.



Prosperity Prosperity may be just human indulgence rather than God‘s blessings.



Protection The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not

protect you.



Proverbs Proverbs s often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers.

The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us

that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow

fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Leo Rosten



Provides Where God guides He provides.



Publicity You can‘t shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called

shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

Marcel Pagnol



Punctuality Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII



Punctuality Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh



Punctuality The trouble with being punctual is that nobody‘s there to appreciate it.







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Punish Do not punish me by granting that which I wish or ask.

Saint Teresa



Punishment Relationships don‘t thrive because the guilty are punished but because

the innocent are merciful.

Max Lucado



Puritanism Puritanism is the righteous indignation about the wrong things.

G.K. Chesterton



Puritanism Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken



Purity O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Augustine



Purpose It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot



Purpose Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Washington Irving



Purpose Drifting through life without aim or purpose is the first cause of failure.



Purpose It is better to die for something that it is to live for nothing.

Dr. Bob Jones Sr



Purpose Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence

aglow.

Helen Keller



Purpose If there is no hope for the future there is no purpose in the present.



Purpose Great minds have purpose; others have wishes.



Purpose It is not the man with a motive but the man with a purpose who prevails.



Purpose The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James



Purpose There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan



Purpose Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.



Purpose The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne









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Purpose It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to

others.



Qualifications God doesn‘t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.



Quality The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of the low

price is forgotten.



Qualities The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we

pretend to have.



Qualities Man‘s attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as

toward high mountains….he admires them but prefers to walk around

them.

Morty Saphir



Quarrels Quarrels would not last very long if the fault was only on one side.



Quarrels Quarrels are like babies, they grow with nursing.



Quest The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is

childish.

Max Lucado



Questions Some questions don‘t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to

learn

Katharine Graham



Questions A person who asks a question might be a fool for five minutes, but a

person who doesn‘t ask, is a fool forever.



Questions Don‘t put a question mark where God puts a period.



Rainbow No cloud comes into your life but that God has put a rainbow in it.



Rat race The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you‘re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin



Reading Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Richard Steele



Reading If you have read a lot of books, you‘re well read. But if you‘ve watched a

lot of TV you‘re not considered well viewed.

Lily Tomlin



Reason Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings



Reason He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who

dares not is a slave.







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Lord Byron



Reason When you don‘t have a good reason for doing a thing, you have one

good reason for letting it alone.



Reason A person usually has two reasons for doing something - one that sounds

good, and a real one.



Reason Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.

Robert Devereux



Reason Let reason be your rudder or you‘ll strike upon the rocks.



Reason If passion drives you let reason hold the reins.



Reason Every man‘s reason is his best.

Thomas Browne



Reason I‘ll not listed to reason…Reason always means what someone else has

got to say.

Elizabeth Gaitskell



Rebel What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Albert Camus



Rebellion A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

Thomas Jefferson



Regret If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and worries of tomorrow

you have no today to be thankful for.



Regret As you grow older, you‘ll find that most of the things you regret are the

things you didn‘t do.



Rejection If you feel rejected remember God offers total acceptance.



Relationships When you handle yourself, use your head, When you handle others, use

your heart.

Donna Read



Relationships Relationship with Jesus is the only basis for entry to the kingdom of God.



Relationships Achievement usually brings success but in God‘s realm success depends

only on relationship with Him.



Relationships Relationships don‘t thrive because the guilty are punished but because

the innocent are merciful.

Max Lucado









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Relationships The only thing more difficult than having a relationship with an invisible

God is have no such relationship.

Max Lucado



Relaxation Inactivity is the lowest form of relaxation.



Religion Theology: - one man‘s opinion of what the Bible says; Doctrine: - the

consensus of the church as to what the Bible teaches; Religion: the

impact of what the Bible has to say upon the daily life of the individual.



Religion Without the high hope of adventure, religion degenerates into the mere

appendage of a comfortable life.

Alfred North Whitehead



Religion Religion is like music, it does not need defence, but rendition.



Religion Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in

with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud



Religion Religion represents the perpetuation in words of a piece of infantile

behaviour in adult life.

Sigmund Freud



Religion We have just about enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to

make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift



Religion A religion that does not permeate daily life is dead and meaningless.



Religion Religion…is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx



Religion To force religion on an unwilling convert is nothing less than the rape of

the soul.



Religion Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein



Religion If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of

despotism. If thee wee two, they would cut each other‘s throats, but

there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

Voltaire



Religion People who boast of no religious prejudice often have no religion either.



Religion The religion that makes you feel like fighting your brother never came

from your Father.



Religion Religion‘s in the heart, not in the knees.







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Douglas Jerrold



Religion People will wrangle for religion; write for it and fight for it; die for it –

anything but live for it.

Colton



Religion If your religion doesn‘t make you a better person, you‘d better get a

better religion.

John Carter



Religion Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke



Religion A religion that is afraid of the facts is doomed.

Henry Emerson Fosdick



Religion Science is at war with religion – and that war can only lead to the

elimination of religious belief as a relic of a superstitious age that is now

long behind us.

Alister McGrath



Remedy ‗Tis a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills.

Sir Walter Raleigh (on feeling the axe before execution)



Remedies Don‘t look for faults – look for remedies.



Remembering When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.

James Coco (1929 - 1987)



Remembering God does not wish us to remember what He is willing to forget.



Remembering Never remember what you can afford to forget.



Remembering It is when we forget ourselves that we do things that are most likely to be

remembered.



Remembering You will be remembered only for two things: the problems you solve or

the ones you create.

Mike Murdock



Remembering Seen it all, done it all, can‘t remember most of it.



Remorse Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ―It might have

been!‖

John Greenleaf Whittier



Remorse Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It

cuts away healthy tissue with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far

deeper than the evil.

E.M. Forster







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Repentance True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a

weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.



Repentance It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent

of those we intend to commit.

Josh Billings



Repentance To grieve over sin is one thing; to repent is another.



Repentance You can‘t repent too soon because you do not know how soon it may be

too late.



Repentance Most people repent of their sins by thanking the Lord they aren‘t half as

bad as their neighbours.

Josh Billings



Repentance Repentance is good, but innocence is better.



Repentance A noble mind disdains not to repent.

Homer



Repentance The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday!



Repentance It is never too late to repent.

John Ray



Repentance Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins; it

comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

Lew Wallace (in Ben Hur)



Repentance There is no repentance in the grave.

Isaac Watts



Responsibility You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln



Responsibility Responsibility is a restless bedfellow.



Responsibility Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker



Responsibility A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

John Maxwell



Reputation You can‘t build a reputation on what you‘re going to do.

Henry Ford



Reputation Reputation is one of the few things that looks worse when you try to

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Reputation There are plenty of people in the world with good reputations who have

never been found out.



Reputation There are two very difficult things in the world. One is to make a name

for yourself and the other is to keep it.



Reputation Some people pay so much attention to their reputation that they lose their

character.



Reputation He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not

enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare



Reputation The opinions of others can damage your reputation, but only you can

damage your character.



Reputation One‘s reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and

a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Talleyrand



Reputation Always providing you have enough courage – or money – you can do

without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell



Reputation Many a man‘s reputation would not recognise his character if they met in

the dark – or in the light.



Reputation Reputation is a large bubble which bursts when you try to blow it up

yourself.



Reputation A fellow can‘t keep folks from having a bad opinion of him, but he can

keep them from being right about it.



Reputation Character is like a tree and reputation is its shadow. The shadow is what

we think of it, the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln



Research Basic research is what I am doing when I don‘t know what I am doing.

Wernhner Von Braun



Resentment Resentment is when you let your hurt become hate.

Resentment is when you allow what is eating you to eat you up.

Resentment is when you poke, stoke, feed and fan the fire, stirring up the

flames and reliving the pain.

Max Lucado



Resentment Resentment is the deliberate decision to nurse the offences until it

becomes a black fury, growling grudge.

Max Lucado







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Resistance Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men

crooked.



Resolutions Good resolutions are like babies crying in church; they should be carried

out immediately.



Resolutions Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important

than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln



Respect I‘m not impressed by the way a person treats those at the top, but how

he shows respect for those on the bottom.‖

Jerry V. Mutchler



Respect If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to

respect each other for what they own.

A.J.P. Taylor



Respect Respect is love in plain clothes.

Frankie Byrne



Respect When you are content to be simply yourself and don‘t compare or

compete, every body will respect you.

Lao-Tzu



Responsibility It is easy to doge our responsibilities but we cannot dodge the

consequences of dodging our responsibilities.



Responsibility When you take responsibilities on your shoulders there is not much room

left for chips.



Responsibility We are not responsible for many of the things that happen to us, but we

are responsible for the way we react when they do happen.



Rest God offers us rest; however this is fulfilled when resting in God becomes

a way of life.



Rest Thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts can find no rest until we

rest in Thee‖

Augustine



Rest Rest isn‘t luxury; it‘s a necessity.



Result To get back on your feet – miss two car payments.



Resurrection Meet the stone mover – Jesus Christ. He‘s Alive!



Resurrection (Of the resurrection morning) Heaven unplugged the grave‘s power

cord…..Death is disabled.







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Max Lucado



Retaliation The surest way of remaining at odds with people is to try to get even with

them.



Retreat We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction!

General Douglas MacArthur



Revelation Learning comes by experience but the wisdom of God by revelation.



Revenge The only people you should try to get even with are those who have

helped you.



Revenge The best sort of revenge is not to be like the one who did the injury.

Antoninus



Revenge If you plan to get even with someone, you are permitting that person to

continue to hurt you.



Revenge When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember the Fire Brigade usually

uses water.



Revenge There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays

so little as that of revenge.



Revenge When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department

usually uses water.



Revenge Indeed, revenge is always the pleasure of a paltry, feeble, tiny mind.

Juvenal



Revenge There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings



Revenge The best way to get even is to forget.



Revenge If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste.



Revenge You can‘t get ahead when you‘re trying to get even.



Reverie Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows

the plenitude of the soul.

Gaston Bachelard



Revival You can know then the church is experiencing a revival – when it

recognises the holiness of God and the sinfulness of sin.

Billy Graham



Revolution The next revolution is always perfect.

G.K. Chesterton







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Revolution Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Pierre Boulez



Revolution Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy



Revolutionary The most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy.

Hunter Adams



Revolutionary The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day

after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt



Rewards People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for

any more than they do.

Albert Hubbard



Rewards A person is not rewarded for having brains, only for using them.



Rewards Your rewards in life are determined by the problems you solve for others.



Riches It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt



Riches And Satan now is wiser than of yore

And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope



Riches There are two ways to be rich: One is the abundance of your

possessions and the other is the fewness of your wants.



Riches There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles,

except perhaps that of the titled for riches.

Hesketh Pearson



Riches The fact is that the so-called rich are simply trustees. All they have at

best is a life-lease on the property.

Elbert Hubbard



Riches The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith



Riches You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.



Riches To have what we want, is riches; but to be able to do without, is power.



Riches They are rich who have friends.









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Riches It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is,

not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher



Riches The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Andrew Carnegie



Riches If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

J. Paul Getty



Riches He is richest who has fewest wants.



Riches In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us

rich.

Henry Ward Beecher



Ridicule Ridicule is the language of the devil.

Thomas Carlyle



Right My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God‘s hands.

Martin Luther King



Right It is the action and not the fruit of the action that matters. You must do

what is right. Maybe it is not in your power, not in your time that fruits will

be borne. However this does not mean that you must cease doing what

is right. You may never know the result of your action but if you do

nothing, there will not be any results at all.

Mahatma Gandhi



Right Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain



Right When I am wrong, dear Lord, make me easy to change, and when I am

right, make me easy to live with.

Peter Marshall



Right Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what‘s right.

Isaac Asimov



Right Right is right even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong even if

everyone is for it.



Right Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are

convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post



Right The straight and narrow path has never been closed for repairs.



Right When you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you

are wrong, you cannot afford to lose it.







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Right If you are willing to admit you are wrong when you are wrong, you are all

right.



Right To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing

it.

G.K. Chesterton



Right There is never a right time to do the wrong thing.



Right There is something wrong if you are always right.



Rights I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your

right to say it.

Voltaire (by S.G. Tallentyre)



Rights A true Christian does not put his rights before the feelings of others, or

his feelings before the rights of others.



Righteousness There are only two classes of people: The righteous and the unrighteous.

The classifying is always done by the righteous.



Righteousness Garments of righteousness never go out of style.



Righteousness Righteousness does not consist in being just a little less bad than our

neighbours.



Righteousness Even the hypocrite admires righteousness. That is why he imitates it.



Risk The opposite of risk is comfort and contentment.

Nathan Brown



Risk Rush multiplies risk.



Rock Music The rhythm hammers us, hits us and possesses us, making us prisoners

of noise. It‘s like a drug.

Jeanne Moreau



Rogue Nobody is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue.

C.H. Spurgeon



Rules It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at

all.

Tipper Gore



Rules Love needs rules, but rules also need love.

E. Lonnie Melashenko



Rumour There are no idle rumours. They are all busy.









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Rumour A rumour is about as hard to unspread as butter.



Rumour As yet no one has invented a self-starting rumour.



Rumour A gossip is someone with a good sense of rumour.



Rumour Some people will believe anything, if you tell them it‘s a rumour.



Rumour A lot of people seem to suffer from ―Rumour-tism‖.



Rumour We still can‘t understand how rumours without a leg to stand on get

around so fast.



Rushing Rushing multiplies risk.



Rut The only difference between a rut and a grave is the timing.



Sabbath Sabbath is a workshop for the practice of eternity.

Peter Forsyth



Sacrifice Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

W.B. Yeats



Sacrifice Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of

lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.



Sacrifice In the Old Testament success is measured by prosperity, in the New

Testament by sacrifice. Many believers prefer to live in the past.

Donald Tait



Safety The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Dudley Moore



Safety They (who) can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety

deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin



Safety A ship in the harbour is safe…but that‘s not want ships were made for.



Safety The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic‘s terrible.



Saints The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world and

lights the way.

Felix Adler



Saints The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint

has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde



Saints The secret of being a saint is being a saint in secret.







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Salvation God does not save us because of what we‘ve done;

Only a puny god could be bought with tithes.

Only an egotistical god would be impresses with our pain,

Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices,

Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidder,

And only a great God does for His children

What they can‘t do for themselves.

Max Lucado



Salvation Salvation is a privilege not a right.

David Tait



Salvation Christ believed is salvation received.



Sarcasm Sarcasm is the greatest weapon of the smallest mind.



Satan And Satan now is wiser than of yore,

And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Alexander Pope



Satire Satire is wit larded with malice.

Shakespeare



Satire Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover

everybody‘s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift



Satisfaction Service and costly discipleship, rather than emotional satisfaction and

comfort, is the consistent evidence of true encounter with God.



Scandal A scandal is one thing that has to be bad to be good.



Scandal A scandal is the art of saying nothing in such a way as to leave nothing

unsaid.



Scapegoat A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to a problem.



Scepticism Scepticism, driven to extremes, defeats itself by becoming self-refuting.

Isaiah Berlin



Science Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein



Science Science is at war with religion – and that war can only lead to the

elimination of religious belief as a relic of a superstitious age that is now

long behind us.

Alister McGrath









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Science Science proves things, whereas religion depends on the authoritarian

imposition of its dogmas which fly in the face of evidence.

Alister McGrath



Scorn Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw



Scripture Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they

cannot understand, but as for me, I always notice that the passages in

Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.

Mark Twain



Second Coming Without the Second Coming, human existence is ultimately a cosmic

obscenity.

Neil Watts



Second Thoughts I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second

time into things I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings



Secret The secret of being a saint is being a saint in secret.



Secretary How to be an effective secretary is to develop the kind of lonely self-

abnegating sacrificial instincts usually possessed only by the early saints

on their way to martyrdom

Jill Tweedie



Secularism Our vision of secularism isn‘t anti-religious, but is one of the State‘s

neutrality and the spirit of tolerance.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin



Security Those who would trade eternal security for immediate advantage deserve

neither.

Benjamin Franklin



Self There‘s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,

and that‘s your own self.

Aldous Huxley



Self The men who believe in themselves are in lunatic asylums.

G.K. Chesterton



Self He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has

always remained faithful.

Anthony Powell



Self-confidence The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do what you are afraid

to do.



Self-confidence Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.







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Samuel Johnson



Self-denial Self-denial of all kinds is the very life and soul of piety.

John Wesley.



Self-defence A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defence.



Self-Indulgence Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Tom Robbins



Self-made The person who boasts of being a self-made person relieves the Lord of

a lot of responsibility.



Selfishness He who thinks only of number one, should remember that it is next to

nothing.



Selfishness Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as

one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde



Selfishness Too many conduct their lives on the cafeteria plan - self-service only.



Self-Made Like all self-made men, he worships his creator.



Self-Perception You can‘t consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the

way you see yourself.

Zig Ziglar



Self-Pity Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it

hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou



Self-Pity Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do

anything wise in the world.

Helen Keller



Self-Reliance The weight of weariness pulls you down. Self-reliance misleads you.

Disappointments discourage you. Anxiety plagues you. But guilt

consumes you.

Max Lucado



Self-Respect Self-respect – the secure feeling that on one, as yet, is suspicious.

H.L. Mencken



Sense Horse sense is what a horse has that keeps it from betting on people.



Serenity Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.



Serenity Soul surgery transpires as serenity replaces anxiety.

Charles Swindoll







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Sermon A good sermon leaves you wondering how the preacher knew all about

you.



Sermon Everyone should listen to a sermon occasionally, including those who go

to church.



Sermon For a sermon to be immortal, it need not be eternal.



Sermon If a sermon pricks the conscience, it must have good points.



Sermon Every sermon should change the person in the pew, or it should be

changed by the preacher in the pulpit.



Sermon Sermons affect people in different ways: some rise to go greatly

strengthened, some awake greatly rested.



Sermon A good sermon will comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.



Sermon It is easier to preach ten sermons than to live one.



Service Most people wish to serve God – but only in an advisory capacity.



Service Many folk want to serve God, but only as advisers.



Service Service and costly discipleship, rather than emotional satisfaction and

comfort, is the consistent evidence of the true encounter with God.



Service Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein



Service He profits most who serves best.



Service Be Fishers of Men….You catch ‗em, He‘ll clean ‗em.



Service To me, success is not something to be measured

in power or fortune or fame. I believe a life of

service to others is a successful life.

Gerald Ford



Service The worship of God through loving service to the poor is an outgrowth of

the public worship of the church.

Bradley Nassif



Shadow Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Helen Keller



Shadow Shadows fall behind when we walk towards the light.









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Shame Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. You‘re only saying that

you‘re smarter today than you were yesterday.

Dave Gilpin



Sharing Caring is the art of sharing,

Sharing is the art of living,

Living is the art of loving,

Loving is the art of caring.



Sharing Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.

Sy Wise



Sharing There is no delight in owning anything unshared.



Shining Lighthouses don‘t ring bells or fire cannon to call attention to their

shining. They just shine on.



Shooting A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

Henry David Thoreau



Shortcomings It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candour but to

regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Russell Lynes



Silence I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.



Silence Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving

wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot



Silence There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Larry Brownlow



Silence Would that we could be so convinced of the necessity of silence.

Mother Teresa



Silence The most convincing argument in the world is intelligent silence.



Silence Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute

Josh Billings



Silence In a war of words silence is the best weapon.



Silence Before speaking, consider whether it is an improvement upon silence.

Philip Simmons



Silence The most effective answer to an insult is silence.



Silence Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.









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Silence Silence is the ultimate weapon of power; it is also one of the hardest

arguments to dispute.



Silence Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammed Ali



Sin To spare any sin is to cherish a foe that only awaits an unguarded

moment to cause our ruin.



Sin Sin will keep you from the presence of God – or the presence of God will

keep you from sin.



Sin He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Sin He who nibbles at the bait of sin forgets the skill of the fisherman.





Sin Sin is an organic network of compulsive attitudes beliefs and behaviours,

deeply rooted in our alienation from God.

Richard Lovelace



Sin Good men avoid sin from the love of virtue; wicked men avoid sin from a

fear of punishment.

John Wesley



Sin Sin is man‘s determination to manage by himself.

Rudolph Bultmann



Sin The only way to deal with sin is to succumb to it.

Oscar Wilde



Sin The greatest sin of our time is not the few who have destroyed; but the

vast majority who sit idly by.

Martin Luther King



Sin All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is

called damnation.

W.H. Auden



Sin Sin causes the cup of joy to spring a leak.

Rev Robert E. Harris



Sin A moralist criticises other people‘s sins, a saint criticises his own.



Sin Your sins stand no chance against the fire hydrant of God‘s grace.

Max Lucado



Sin First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

Thomas Manton







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Sin Sins become more subtle as you grow older.

Piers Paul Read



Sincerity Many things may attract a stranger to you, but only sincerity can make

him your friend.



Sincerity Sincerity is a form of currency that defies counterfeiting.



Sincerity A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely

fatal.

Oscar Wilde



Sinner The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer



Sinner The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint

has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde



Sinning More men abstain from forbidden actions because they are ashamed of

sinning, than because their inclinations are good.



Situation When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover

His is all we really need.

Gigi Graham Tchividjian



Situation God will work with us in a seemingly hopeless situation.



Situation We never know what good thing He will bring out of a seemingly

hopeless situation.



Skeptic A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall,

claims it is a forgery.

Morris Bender



Skeptic It is the lot of the skeptic to doubt his beliefs and believe his doubts.



Skeptic A skeptic is a person who has faith in nothing except his own lack of

faith.



Slander Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln



Slander Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the hearer and the one spoken

of.

Talmud



Slander You have a tremendous advantage over the person who slanders you;

you have it within your power to forgive that person.







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Slavery In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the

prisoner of addition and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich



Sleep If you can‘t sleep, don‘t count sheep; talk to the shepherd.



Sleep People who say they sleep like a baby usually don‘t have one.



Smile All people smile in the same language.



Smile A smile is the shortest distance between two people.



Smile A smile brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to

the sad, and is nature‘s best antidote for trouble.



Smile A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts

forever.



Smile A smile is the lighting system of the fact, the cooling system of the head

and the heating system of the heart.



Smile A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.



Smile Smile – it increases your face value.



Smile Don‘t cry because it‘s over, smile because it happened.



Smile A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.

Andy Rooney



Smile Laughter is a noisy smile.



Smile All people smile in the same language.



Smile You will never offend a person by returning a smile.



Smile The person who is smart enough to keep smiling usually ends up with

something good enough to smile about.



Smile Don‘t cry because it is over, smile because it happened!



Smile We shall never know all the good that a simple smile will do.

Mother Teresa



Smile One thing is certain, smiles never go up in price or down in value.



Smiles Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain









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Smoking The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell.

Thomas Alva Edison



Smoking A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,

dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest

resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

King James I



Society In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the

prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich



Solitude Solitude is the audience chamber of God.

W.S. Landor



Solitude God, who probes our deepest thoughts during protracted segments of

solitude, opens our eyes to things that need attention.

Charles Swindoll



Solution Beware of temporary solutions, they tend to become permanent.



Solution If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Eldridge Cleaver



Solvency Solvency is the unanswerable argument of success.



Something I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do

something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the

something that I can do.



Something The worst day of a man‘s life is the day he sits down and plans how he

can get something for nothing.

Thomas Jefferson



Sorrow Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.



Sorrow Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too

weak to bear it.

Victor Hugo



Sorry It is better to be safe than sorry.



Sounding off Giving someone a piece of your mind robs yourself.



Sounding off You‘ll never get to the top if you keep blowing yours.



Sounding off Blowing your stack adds to air pollution.



Sounding off I‘m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

S.I. Hayakawa







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Sourness Sourpusses don‘t attract a following.

Max Lucado



Speculation A gram of faith is worth a tonne of speculation.



Speaking The less you talk, the more you‘re listened to.

Abigail Van Buren



Speaking Before speaking, consider whether it is an improvement upon silence.

Philip Simmons



Speaking Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving

wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot



Speaking The first secret of good speaking is to know who‘s listening.

Jeff Cook



Speech If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better

for it.

William Penn



Speech Whatever is in the well of your heart will show up in the bucket of your

speech.



Speech I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.



Speech I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is

everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully

and try to hear what I am not saying.

Charles C. Finn



Speech My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she

stops to breathe.

Jimmy Durante



Speech (free) I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your

right to say it.

Attributed to Voltaire



Speeches If you speak only as long as you pray most speakers would be

applauded.



Spiritual Gifts We crave spiritual gifts but God wants spiritual fruit.



Spirituality It is possible for a married person to make spiritual progress….but only at

a chicken‘s pace.

Teresa of Avila – 16th Century









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Spontaneous I‘m planning to be spontaneous – tomorrow.



Sport When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants

to murder him, he calls it ferocity.

George Bernard Shaw



Sport The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.



Spouse One‘s best asset is a sympathetic spouse.

Euripedes



Spring Spring is God thinking in gold, laughing in blue and speaking in green.

Frank Johnson



Statistics There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli



Statistics Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.

Paul Brodeur



Status Status is a poor substitute for stature.



Stealing Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their

property that they may more perfectly respect it.

G.K. Chesterton



Stedfastness The people who move the world are the ones who do not let the world

move them.



Stewardship Real stewardship is God‘s view of my stewardship of His property.



Stirring He who pulls on the oar finds it hard to rock the boat.



Storm It is easier to raise a storm than calm one.



Storms Storms make oaks take deeper root.

George Herbert



Story To make a long story short, don‘t tell it.



Strangers There are no strangers – only friends we haven‘t met.



Strength Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting

go.

George Hewitt



Strength One of our greatest strengths is to admit our weaknesses.



Stress Stress is when the demands of living exceed your perceived resources to

deal with those demands.







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Steven Koski



Stubbornness Firmness is that admirable quality in ourselves that is merely

stubbornness is others.



Struggle Two souls, alas, are lodged within my breast, and struggle there for

undivided reign.

Goethe



Stupidity Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I‘m

not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein



Stupidity Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.



Stupidity Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and

conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr



Style Style is to see beauty in modesty.

Andree Putnan



Style In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand

like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson



Success To me, success is not something to be measured in power or fortune or

fame. I believe a life of service to others is a successful life.

Gerald Ford



Success Success is not about money and power. Real success is about

relationships.



Success There‘s plenty of room at the top but there is no room to sit down.



Success There is no success without a successor.



Success Success sabotages the memory of the successful.

Max Lucado



Success Success begets amnesia.

Max Lucado



Success Success stops when you do.



Success Success lies not in achieving what you aim at but in aiming at what you

ought to achieve.



Success The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Donald Kendall







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Success The road to success runs uphill, so don‘t expect to break any speed

records.



Success Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important

than any one thing.

Abraham Lincoln



Success The road to success is always under construction.



Success Ponder your success and count your wealth in a cemetery and remember

that neither of the two is buried with you.

Max Lucado



Success Failure is often the first rung on the ladder of success.

David Tait



Success All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain



Success Every successful man likes to think he has done it all himself and his wife

smiles and lets it go at that.



Success The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.



Success The toughest thing about success is that you‘ve got to keep on being a

success.

Irving Berlin



Success Many people carefully avoid discovering the secret of success because

deep down they suspect the secret may be hard work.



Success It is not the going out of port but the coming in that determines the

success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beecher



Success The secret of success is constancy of purpose.



Success It is impossible to gain a toehold on success by acting like a heel.

William A. Ward



Success People can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited

enthusiasm.

Charles Schwab



Success Easy success breeds arrogance, but success hard-earned, builds

character.

David Tait









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Success If at first you don‘t succeed, try, try again. Don‘t think of it as failure.

Think of it as timed- release success.

Robert Orben (1927 -)



Success There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard

work, learning from failure.

Gen. Colin L. Powell



Success Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great but what you

consider to be right.

John Gray (1839 - 1915)



Success The secret to success is to learn to accept the impossible,

do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.



Success Success is getting up one more time.



Success The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes

cheaper.



Success The great strength of a totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it

to imitate it…I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as

‗conscience‘…Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong…The

victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

Adolf Hitler



Success To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the

affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure

the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in

others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a

garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has

breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Success Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.



Success The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to

deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles



Success Success is a matter of luck. Ask any failure!



Success The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Henry Ward Beecher



Success The will to succeed is important, but what‘s more important is the will to

prepare.

Bobby Knight



Success The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.







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Success The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice you give to others.



Success Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

Mamie McCullough



Success The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity

when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli



Success To do for the world more than the world does for you - that is success.

Henry Ford



Success Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let

go.

William Feather



Success The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making

those dreams come true.



Success Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making

the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw



Success Success that goes to your head usually pays a short visit.



Success To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.



Success How many people do you know who became successful at something

they hate?



Success The person who wins success may have been counted out several times

but didn‘t hear the referee.



Success Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions

are people who simply don‘t know how to quit.

Robert Schuller



Success Success always occurs in private; failure in full view.



Success Success has less to do with the recipe than the cook.



Success Success is very often failure with a new coat of paint.



Success Success in life depends more on push than pull.



Success I would never have succeeded in life if I hadn‘t given the same care and

attention to the little things as I did to the big.

Charles Dickens









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Success Success doesn‘t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment

of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Edward Bliss



Success There are plenty of rules for attracting success but none of them work

unless you do.



Success A successful man is one who can make more money than his wife can

spend. A successful woman is one who can find this man.

Frederick Brito



Suffering it is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that

sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and

vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham



Suicide More people commit suicide with a fork than any other weapon.



Sunshine Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller



Sunshine Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from

themselves.

James Matthew Barrie



Superficiality Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction

is a primary spiritual problem.

Richard Foster



Superstition Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke



Superstition All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Samuel Johnson



Suppression Truth rejects with scorn every semblance of coercion; error greets with

outstretched hands any and all forms of suppression and oppression.

C.H. Edwards



Surrender God can do wonders with a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.

Victor Alfsen



Surrender God demands a whole heart, but he will accept a broken one, if He gets

all the pieces.



Surrender God‘s delight is received upon surrender not awarded upon conquest.

Max Lucado



Surrender The Gospel‘s core is salvation and its total requirement is surrender that

ensures obedience to God‘s revealed will.







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Surrender Acceptance of God‘s free grace is in itself surrender.



Surrender God doesn‘t gloat on our surrender; rather He has already called us His

sons and daughters.



Surrender Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting

go.

George Hewitt



Surrender The greatness of a man‘s worth lies in the greatness of his surrender.

William Booth



Survival Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival

value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis



Survival There‘s only a small difference between keeping your chin up and

sticking you neck out. Survival depends on knowing where one ends and

the other begins.



Sympathy Sympathy is the result of thinking with your heart.



Tact Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Howard W. Newton



Tact Tact is the ability to communicate whatever is necessary and not hurt

feelings.



Tact Tact is the art of recognising when to be big and when not to belittle.



Tact Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood

boil.

Franklin P. Jones



Tact Candour is what one woman thinks about another woman‘s dress; tact is

what she says about it.



Tact The tribute which intelligence pays to humbug.

St. John Brodrick



Talents Talent is the gift plus the passion – a desire to succeed so intense that

no force on earth can stop it.

Neil Simon



Talents God is less interested in talent and more interested in trust.

Max Lucado



Talents Your talents are God‘s gift to you. Who you serve with your talents is

your gift to God.







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Talk Those who make the most noise about problems usually do the least

about them.



Talk When you talk you only repeat what you know; but if you listen, you may

learn something.



Talk If all our talk was turned into action, the whole world would have been

converted many times over.

Donald Tait



Talk Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.



Talk The reason talk is so cheap is that the supply always outstrips the

demand.



Talk He talks much who has the least to say.



Talk Those whose conversation lacks depth usually make up for it in length.



Talking Talking is the disease of age.

Ben Johnson



Talking There are very few people who don‘t become more interesting when they

stop talking.

Mark Lowry



Talking Talking should be an exercise of the brain not the tongue.



Tasks The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power being us.



Tasks The hardest tasks in the world are not physical feats or intellectual

achievements, but moral acts – to return love for hate; to include the

excluded; and to say, ―I was wrong‖.



Taste The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good

taste invariably have a very bad taste.

Joshua Reynolds



Taxes In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin



Taxes Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf.

Will Rogers



Taxes Taxation without representation is tyranny.

James Otis



Taxes The lottery is the best kind of tax every conceived. It only taxes the

willing.







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Taxes There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that

of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Adam Smith



Teachers A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Brooks Adams



Teachers That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good

teachers make the best of a pupil‘s means: great teachers foresee a

pupil‘s ends.

Maria Callas



Teachers A teacher should have maximal authority and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz



Teamwork Teamwork allows common people to attain uncommon results.



Teamwork Working together is essential for success; even freckles would make a

nice tan if they would get together.



Teamwork A team exists only when each player understands how his actions affect

the rest of the team.



Teamwork He who is helping to row the boat has neither the time nor the desire to

rock it.



Teamwork Remember, if you try to go it alone, then the fence that shuts others out

shuts you in.



Teamwork People support what they help create.



Teamwork The man who gets he most satisfactory results is not always the man

with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best co-

ordinate the brains and talents of his associates.

W. Alton Jones



Teamwork Teamwork is the essence of life.

Pat Riley



Tears Tears are the material out of which heaven weaves its brightest rainbow.

F.B. Meyer



Teenager Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when

you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz



Television Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you

wouldn‘t have in your home.

David Frost







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Television Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Neil Postman



Television Radio and television …have succeeded in lifting the manufacture of

banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major

industry.

Nathalie Sarraute



Temper A person‘s temper improves the most when they don‘t use it.



Temper The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Jacqueline Schiff



Temper When you give somebody a piece of your mind, be sure you can get by

with what you have left.



Temper When a person loses their temper their reason goes on vacation.



Temper Temper shows most when it is lost.



Temper No form of insurance can compensate for a lost temper.



Temper Keep your temper – no one else wants it.



Temper He who ‗blows his stack‘ adds to the world‘s pollution.



Temper Persons are like steel. When either one loses its temper it isn‘t any

good.



Temper No matter how bad your situation, you can lose your temper and make it

worse.



Temper How to handle a bad temper: Be like a kettle – sing when you boil!



Temper When you are right you can afford to keep your temper, and when you

are wrong, you cannot afford to lose it.



Temptation Watch out for temptation – the more you see of it the better it looks.



Temptation Temptation will pester you, but temptation will not master you.

Max Lucado



Temptation Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately

left open.

Arnold Glasow



Temptation A person falls into temptation because he is unwilling to stand up against

it.









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Temptation If you don‘t want temptation to follow you, don‘t act as if you are

interested.

Richard L. Evans



Temptation When you flee from temptation, make sure you don‘t leave a forwarding

address.



Temptation Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the

idle.

Charles Spurgeon



Temptation The last temptation is the greatest treason; to do the right deed for the

wrong reason.

T.S. Eliot



Temptation I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde



Temptation Who was is said temptation resisted is a true measure of character?

Certainly no one in Beverly Hills.

Joan Collins



Temptation The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.



Temptation Few speed records are broken when people run away from temptation.



Temptation Don‘t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid

you.

Winston Churchill



Temptation He who nibbles at the bait of sin forgets the skill of the fisherman.



Temptation Unless you have never been tempted, don‘t pass judgment on someone

what has yielded.



Temptation Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your door forever.



Tenderness If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Carolyn Kenmore



Tension If you live with too much tension, you won‘t live to enjoy the pension!



Tension Tension destroys attention.



Terrorism The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who

practise it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the

light within them dies.

Terry Waite



Thankfulness The second gift begins with the first thank-you







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James Connell (1944 -)



Thankfulness Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on

whether you‘ve sent someone a thank-you note.

Bernie Brillstein



Thankfulness If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and worries of tomorrow,

you have no today to be thankful for.



Thankfulness Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am

thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr



Thankfulness If you think you haven‘t much to be thankful for, be thankful for some of

the things you don‘t have.



Therapy Denial and dismissal are not part of God‘s grief therapy.

Max Lucado



Things The things that count most in life are usually the things that cannot be

counted.

Bernard Meltzer



Things We too often love things and use people when we should be using things

and loving people.



Thinking To think is to live; he that cannot think is a fool; he that will not, is a bigot;

he that dare not is a slave.



Thinking Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.



Thinking Whether you think you can, or think you can‘t, you‘re right.



Thinking Thinking is a prelude to product, but not a substitute for it.



Thinking People who say what they think would not be so bad if they thought.



Thinking A lot of people get through thinking before they get through thinking

things through.



Thinking There‘s nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who think for

themselves.

Meg Greenfield



Thinking Thinking is what a great number of people think they are doing when they

are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James



Thinking Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure….make sure you are

always receptive to new ideas.







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George Crane



Thinking Thinking is such hard work, which is why so few people engage in it.

Henry Ford



Theology Theology: - one man‘s opinion of what the Bible says; Doctrine: - the

consensus of the church as to what the Bible teaches; Religion: the

impact of what the Bible has to say upon the daily life of the individual.



Theology Theology – An effort to explain the unknowable by putting into terms of

the not worth knowing.

H.L. Mencken



Things Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small

people talk about people.



Things A wise person learns to enjoy things without owning them.



Thinking It is a wise man who has his after thoughts first.



Thinking A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.



Thinking Whether you think you can or you think you can‘t, you are right.

Henry Ford



Thinking It wouldn‘t be so bad to let your mind go blank if you always remembered

to turn off the sound.



Thinking The trouble with most people is that every time they think, they think of

themselves.



Thinking Some people don‘t think before they speak – or afterwards.



Thinking Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.



Thinking A brain is only as strong as its weakest think.



Thinking Thinking is a prelude to product, but not a substitute for it.



Thinking Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.



Thinking Negative thinking will always empower your problem and keep you from

reaching your destiny.

Bob Gass



Thoroughness The price of doing a job is always less than the expense of doing it twice.



Thought The only reason some people get lost in thought, is because it is

unfamiliar territory.

Paul Fix







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Thoughts A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Herbert Prochnow



Thoughts The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.



Thoughts Change your thoughts and you can change the world.

Norman Vincent Peale



Thoughts I am not interested in this phenomenon or that phenomenon. I want to

know God‘s thoughts – the rest are mere details.

Albert Einstein



Thoughts The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we

ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin



Thoughts Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius



Time God has placed me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things.

Where I‘m up to, means that I will never die.



Time Time is capital which costs nothing to get, but everything to lose.



Time Time is…

too slow for those who wait

too swift for those who fear

too long for those who grieve

too short for those who rejoice

But for those who love…Time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke



Time If you don‘t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?



Time Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.



Time Make the time because you‘ll never find the time.



Time Time spent waiting on God is never wasted.



Time God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

Arthur Koestler



Time Men talk of killing time, while time is quietly killing them.

Dion Boucicault



Time Time is but the gateway to eternity.









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Time Life and time are inversely proportional – the older and slower we get, the

faster time goes.

Donald Tait



Time The person who will not take their time ends up wasting other people‘s.



Time Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have

rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers



Time Time has been transformed, and we have exchanged; it has advanced

and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with

bewilderment and exhilaration.

Kahlil Gibran



Time Time is worth saving when you have something better to spend it on.



Time I‘ve learned that the less time I have to work with, the more things I get

done.



Time Nothing on earth is as perishable as time.

Donald Tait



Time Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius



Time Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young



Time Time may have become the most precious commodity in the land.

Louis Harris



Time Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Richard Ben Sapir



Time Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Laertius Diogenes



Tiredness No wonder I fell so tired – I‘m older than I‘ve ever been before.



Tithe Tithe if you love Jesus. Anyone can honk.



Titles There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles,

except perhaps that of the titled for riches.

Hesketh Pearson



Today Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is mystery

Today is a gift, -- That‘s why it is called

‘the Present’









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Today You do not have what you once had with God. You only have what

today you received from Him.



Today If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven‘t done much

today.

The Sunday School



Today The future belongs to those who are preparing for it today.

Malcolm X



Today/Tomorrow Today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every

tomorrow a vision of hope.



Today/Tomorrow Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday - and it didn‘t happen.



Today/Tomorrow Today‘s preparation determines tomorrow‘s achievement.



Today/Tomorrow Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is

the only cash you have so spend it wisely.

Kay Lyons



Today/Tomorrow If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of

tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



Today/Tomorrow I‘m catching up with yesterday, by tomorrow I should be ready for today.



Today/Tomorrow We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today and

look with hope toward tomorrow.



Together We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang

separately.

Benjamin Franklin (At Signing of Declaration of Independence)



Toil The highest reward for man‘s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he

becomes by it.

John Ruskin



Tolerance Tolerance is the ability to keep your shirt on when you‘re hot under the

collar.



Tolerance Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham



Tolerance Tolerance when it comes to truth is a travesty.

Hank Hanegraaff



Tolerance Toleration of sin closes the heart‘s door to God.



Tolerance We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to

tolerate the intolerant.







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Karl Popper



Tomorrow Always put off until tomorrow what shouldn‘t be done at all.



Tomorrow Don‘t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it

today you can do it again tomorrow.

James Mitchener



Tomorrow Don‘t consume your tomorrows feeding on your yesterdays.



Tomorrow Have no fear of tomorrow; God is already there.



Tomorrow You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.



Tomorrow Do not boast about what you are going to do tomorrow unless you can

say the same thing about yesterday.



Tomorrow Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of

anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the

day.



Tomorrow Every tomorrow has two handles: we can take hold of the handle of

anxiety or by the handle of faith.



Tomorrow Leave tomorrow until tomorrow.



Tomorrow We crucify ourselves between two thieves, regret for yesterday and fear

of tomorrow.



Tomorrow I‘m planning to be spontaneous – tomorrow.



Tomorrow You‘ll go nowhere tomorrow that I haven‘t already been.

Max Lucado



Tomorrow Tomorrow is a radiant land, we shall wake, and remember, and

understand.

Robert Browning



Tomorrow Anybody who brags about what he is going to do tomorrow probably did

the same thing yesterday.



Tomorrow Life, lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being

realised.

Leo Buscaglia



Tongue Good deeds speak for themselves. The tongue only interrupts their

eloquence.



Tongue Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Adam Clarke







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Tongue The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say

something or bust.

Josh Billings



Tongue The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it.



Tongue Be careful of your tongue. It is a wet place and likely to slip.



Tourist In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion,

whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie



Tradition The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the

brain of the living.

Karl Marx



Tradition A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has

strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Winston Churchill



Tradition Tradition is a guide not a jailer.

W Somerset Maugham



Tradition Tradition is entirely different from habit, even from an excellent habit,

since habit is by definition an unconscious acquisition and tends to

become mechanical, whereas tradition results from a conscious and

deliberate acceptance …Tradition presupposes the reality of what

endures.

Igor Stravinsky



Tragedy The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to

love.

W. Somerset Maugham



Tragedy The greatest tragedy is saying ―No‖ to God.



Tragedy Eternal tragedy results in denying God full control.



Tragedy There are two tragedies in life. One is to not get your heart‘s desire, the

other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw



Tragedy What the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells



Tragedy Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.

They are conflicts between two rights.

Georg Hegel









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Transformation Books are for information. The Bible is for transformation.



Travel A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to

find it.

George Moore



Traveller A good traveller is one who does not know where is going to, and a

perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lin Yutang



Travesty Tolerance when it comes to truth is a travesty.

Hank Hanegraaff



Treaties Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle



Trials Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God‘s

faithfulness.



Trials Gold is tried in fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Seneca



Triumph I would rather fail in a cause that will one day triumph than triumph in a

cause that will one day fail.

Woodrow Wilson



Triumph It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Edmund Burke



Trouble Those who borrow trouble multiply it, and then lend it to their friends.



Troubles Troubles like babies, grow larger by nursing.



Troubles Brooding over one‘s troubles ensues a perfect hatch.



Troubles Learn to laugh at your troubles and you‘ll never run out of thins to laugh

at.

Lyn Karol



Troubles If you can‘t make light of your troubles, keep them in the dark.



Troubles A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.



Troubles Trouble is the only exception to the laws of perspective.



Troubles You‘re like a teabag – not worth much till you‘ve been through some hot

water.



Troubles Don‘t just tell God the size of your troubles, try telling your troubles the

power of your God.







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Troubles In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings; others buy crutches.

Harold W. Ruoff



Troubles Give your troubles to God: He will be up all night anyway.

Donald J. Morgan



Troubles A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into

none at all.

Chinese Proverb



Trust My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.



Trust Give your troubles to God: He will be up all night anyway.



Trust When I come to the end of my rope, God is there to take over.



Trust I know that God will not give me anything I can‘t handle. I just wish He

didn‘t trust me so much.

Mother Teresa



Trust It is a greater compliment to be trusted that to be loved.

George MacDonald



Trust A faith that hasn‘t been tested can‘t be trusted.

Adrian Rogers



Trust Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will

show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Trust Trust is a cue that communicates credibility, quality assurance and

security.

Dan Funk



Trust The more we put our trust in Him, we discover the blessings multiply

exponentially.

Jeffrey Pum Lian Pau



Trust All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson



Trust If we don‘t trust God when times are tough, we don‘t trust at all.

Beverly Sills



Trust The greatest things are often done by timid people with simple trust.



Trust God is less interested in talent and more interested in trust.

Max Lucado









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Trust The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Stimson.



Truth Truth is like iodine; it helps when it hurts.



Truth A truth that‘s told with bad intent

Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake



Truth An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.

Henri-Frederic Amiel



Truth The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is

identical with the discovery of truth – that the error and truth are simply

opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it

is cured on one error, is usually another error, and maybe one worse that

the first one.

H.L. Mencken



Truth When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Otto Von Bismarck



Truth Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard



Truth There is nothing as powerful as the truth and often nothing as strange.

Daniel Webster



Truth Seek the truth - listen to the truth - learn the truth - love the truth - speak

the truth - hold the truth - defend the truth – till death.

John Hus



Truth Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.

George Braque



Truth Blunt truths cause more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Alexander Pope



Truth The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell



Truth When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.

Arabian Proverb



Truth Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.



Truth Truth is so precious some people use it sparingly.



Truth Truth is something which must be known with the mind, accepted with

the heart, and enacted in life.







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Truth Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Ellis Peters



Truth Two half-truths do not necessarily constitute the whole truth.



Truth Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley



Truth Computers are able to process endless knowledge, but only humans can

discern truth.

David Tait



Truth As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand.

Josh Billings



Truth Beware of the half-truth. You might get hold of the wrong half.



Truth The trouble with stretching the truth is that it‘s apt to snap back.



Truth Truth becomes too strong unless softened by love, and love becomes

weak unless strengthened by truth.

Loren Seibold



Truth Truth rejects with scorn every semblance of coercion; error greets with

outstretched hands any and all forms of suppression and oppression.

C.H. Edwards



Truth A lie gets halfway around the world before Truth has a chance to get its

pants on.

Winston Churchill



Truth A liar is never believed even if he tells the truth.





Truth The truth often hurts, but it is the lie that leaves the scar.



Truth Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Han Suyin



Truth Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or refusal to

believe.



Truth Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.

Robert F. Kennedy



Truth If one tells the truth, one is sooner or later to be found out.

Wilke









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Truth If a thousand people say something foolish, it‘s still foolish. Truth is

never dependent upon consensus of opinion.



Truth Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love becomes soft if it is

not strengthened by truth.

John Stott



Truth Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms

of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein



Truth The truth doesn‘t hurt unless it ought to.



Truth Knowledge is subject to change, while truth stands firm.

David Tait



Truth Only the hand that erases can write the truth.

Meister Eckhart



Truth Some people so treasure the truth that they use it with great economy.

H. Ray Golenor



Truth Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in

their science.

Henry David Thoreau



Truth The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Lily Tomlin



Truth Either we conform the truth to our desires or we conform our desires to

the truth.

Kierkegaard



Truth Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn‘t.

Mark Twain



Truth Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln



Truth Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and

therefore are most economical in its use.

Mark Twain



Truth Stretching may be an aid to health but it wrecks truth.



Try It won‘t fly if you don‘t try.



Try The try-angle will take you around the hardest corners.



Try If at first you do succeed, try something harder.







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Try The explanation of triumph is in the first syllable.



Try You‘re never a loser until you quit trying.

Mike Ditka



Try Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: an amateur built the

Ark, professionals built the ‗Titanic‘.



Tyrant Nature has left this tincture in the blood,

That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Daniel Defoe



Ugliness Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness goes straight to the bone.



Uncertainty Fear takes ignorance and uncertainty to new depths. Faith takes hope

and courage to unimagined heights



Understanding Most of us can read the handwriting on the wall, we just assume it‘s

addressed to somebody else

Ivern Ball



Understanding Understanding is the shortest distance between two points of view.



Understanding A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight

and understanding.

Marshall McLuhan



Unhappiness Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

Tom Robbins



Unimportant There is no such thing as an un-important day.



Unity In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; and in all things, charity.

Augustine



Unity One hundred pianos tuned to the one fork are in tune with each other.



Universe Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to

everything else in the universe.

John Muir



Useless No one is useless who lightens the burdens of another.



Uselessness Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the

poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw



Values Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we

choose so long as it does not disturb others.







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Jonathan Sacks



Values The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the

right scale of values.

Norman Thomas



Vanity The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.



Vanity The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana



Vanity Few things are as vulnerable as vanity.



Vengeance Vengeance fixes your attention at life‘s ugliest moments.

Max Lucado



Vice Pride is the never failing vice of fools.



Vice Men wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices but not from their

vices.

Emerson



Vice My life is a statement of the sum of sum indulged or overcome.

John Mansfield



Vice Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,

As to be hated needs but to be seen;

Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,

We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope



Victory There are no victories at bargain prices.

Dwight D. Eisenhower



Vigilance The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.



Violence Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in

violence.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn



Violence In violence, we forget who we are.

Mary McCarthy



Violence Violence is not a knife in the hand. It grows like a poison tree inside

other people who have not learned to value other human beings.

Frances Lawrence



Violence Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov









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Virtue The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without

abusing it.

Lord Macaulay



Virtue If they can see Christian virtues in us rather than vices, we will win more

people to this church by accident that we now win to Christ on purpose.

Rosa T. Banks



Virtue When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a

sacrifice to God of the devil‘s leavings.

Jonathan Swift



Virtue He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill



Vision Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)



Vision What is vision? It is a compelling image of an achievable future.

Laura Berman Fortgang



Vision Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of

things but the absence of vision.



Vision One person‘s vision becomes his successor‘s job.

David Tait



Vision Action without vision is a nightmare.



Vision The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has

no vision.

Helen Keller



Vision Big dreamers never sleep

Gino Vannelli (1952 -)



Visitors Visitors always give pleasure - in not the coming, then the going.



Waiting The good things in life are like the birth of a child – ninety per cent

waiting.

James Michener



Waiting Time spent waiting on God is never wasted.



Waiting Waiting for a brain wave is the surest way of missing the tide.



Wants When my wants line up with His desires, things happen.

David Tait



Wants There is a guaranteed way to get what you want: want less.







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War There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Benjamin Franklin



War History is littered with the wars which everybody know would never

happen.

Enoch Powell



War War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other

means.

Karl von Clausewitz



War The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell



War Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

Niccolò Machiavelli



War In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

Omar Bradley



War Laws are silent in time of war.

Cicero



Waste Time spent waiting on God is never wasted.



Weakness One of our greatest strengths is to admit our weaknesses.



Wealth The real measure of a man‘s wealth is what he has invested in eternity.



Wealth Ponder your success and count your wealth in a cemetery and remember

that neither of the two is buried with you.

Max Lucado



Wealth If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin



Wealth A person asked John D. Rockfeller‘s accountant at his death, ―How much

did J.D. leave?‖ The accountant replied, ―All of it!‖



Weariness The weight of weariness pulls you down. Self-reliance misleads you.

Disappointments discourage you. Anxiety plagues you. But guild

consumes you.

Max Lucado



Whispers The heart may only whisper a prayer, yet God hears and answers.



Will The will to succeed is important, but what‘s more important is the will to

prepare.

Bobby Knight







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Will Freewill is a choice, obedience is the choice of freewill.

David Tait



Will Belief is of the mind, worship of the heart, and obedience of the will.

David Tait



Will The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Epictetus



Will of God The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep

you.

Bernadette Devlin



Will of God The will of God never takes you to where the grace of God will not

protect you.





Will of God Lord, give me what you ask of me and ask me what You will.

Augustine



Will of God The highest achievement in life is to find and follow God‘s will for you.



Will of God The Gospel‘s core is salvation and its total requirement is surrender that

ensures obedience to God‘s revealed will.



Willpower It‘s not that some people have willpower and some don‘t. It‘s that some

people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon



Winner Winners never blame anybody; only losers try to blame other people for

what went wrong.

Ron Barrassi



Winner One of the few things that rivals a sore loser is an arrogant winner.



Winner Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.



Winners History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually

encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.



Winners The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things that

losers don‘t want to do.

Dr Phil McGraw



Winning Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

Albert Payson Terhune



Winning Anyone can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

George Ade







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Winning There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find

out which is the winning side.

G.K. Chesterton



Winning Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you

come second are your wife and your dog.

Damon Hill



Wisdom As information doubles, knowledge halves and wisdom quarters.

Eugene Brewer



Wisdom There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing



Wisdom There‘s no one so wise as the man who says nothing at the right time.



Wisdom To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.



Wisdom You can‘t pay cash for wisdom. It comes to you on the instalment plan.



Wisdom A man must become wise at his own expense.



Wisdom A man should be never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but

saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope



Wisdom Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings



Wisdom Experience forms man‘s wisdom and understanding; revelation brings the

wisdom of God.



Wisdom Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine



Wisdom Learning comes by experience but the wisdom of God by revelation.



Wisdom Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom,

Coleridge



Wisdom The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James



Wisdom Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the

other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey



Wisdom Use is the only excuse for wealth or wisdom.









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Wisdom Wisdom is knowing what path to take next; integrity is taking it.



Wisdom Wisdom lies in believing only half of what you hear; genius lies in

knowing which half to believe.



Wisdom A wise man never blows his own knows.



Wisdom Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop



Wish Do not punish me for granting that which I wish or ask.

Saint Teresa



Wishes Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Washington Irving



Wishes Few wishes come true by themselves.

June Smith



Wishes A wish is a desire without an attempt.



Wit Wit is educated insolence.

Aristotle



Wit Brevity is the soul of wit.

William Shakespeare



Wit Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt



Wit Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham



Wit Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Wit Many friendships have perished over what others thought wit.



Witness To be a witness is to do God‘s will.

David Tait



Witness An inactive Christian witness is not an oxymoron – it is an impossibility.



Witness The most tragic death that occurs from deceit is out witness.

Max Lucado



Witness As oxygenated blood infuses life to the body, so the love of God compels

each Christian to be a continual witness for Christ.



Witness We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.







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Witnessing In our quest for saving souls for Christ, we must see ourselves as

lifesavers and not sunbathers on the beach.

Pastor Alan De Silva



Witnessing Witnessing for Christ is a call that swallows up every other engagement

of life.

Caesar Wamalika



Witnessing I owe therefore I go.



Witnessing We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.



Wives Wives are young men‘s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old

men‘s nurses.

Francis Bacon



Women Women would rather be right than be reasonable.

Ogden Nash



Women Woman was God‘s second blunder.

Friedrich Nietzsche



Wonder A man who has lost his sense of wonder is a dead man.

William of Thierry



Words Give your tongue more holiday than your hands and eyes.



Words Giving anyone a piece of your mind robs yourself.



Words Before you give somebody a piece of your mind, be sure you can get by

with what you have left.



Words I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Calvin Coolidge



Words I have never been hurt by anything I didn‘t say.



Words Volubility is the defeat of language by the tongue.



Words Words are windows to the heart.



Words Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly

endless.

Mother Teresa



Words Oh Lord, let my words be sweet and tender…..for tomorrow I may have

to eat them.



Words Words that come from the heart enter the heart.







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Words Others may be deaf to our words, but never blind to our actions.

William Arthur Ward



Words Never use a gallon words to express a spoonful of thought.



Words There‘s a great power in words, if you don‘t hitch too many of them

together.

Josh Billings



Words Nothing reveals a man‘s command of words more than his efforts to be

brief.



Words It wouldn‘t be so bad to let your mind go blank if you always remembered

to turn off the sound.



Words The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word – unsaid.



Words There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say, as long as you don‘t

say it out loud.



Words It is peculiar how much longer it takes folks to say what they think that to

tell what they know.



Work I am a great believer in luck, the harder I work the more I get of it.



Work God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but He expects us to do

the baking.



Work Work is a slice of your life. It‘s not the entire pizza.

Pierce Brosnan



Work If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, you will need to wear

work shoes.



Work Work liberates.

Dachau Concentration Camp



Work A successful man continues to look for work after he has found a job.



Work There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

William J. Bennett



Work Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Work Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius



Work Work to become, not to acquire.







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Elbert Hubbard



Work Hard work never killed anybody, but some of us sure don‘t want to take a

chance on being the first victim.



Work Hard work is simply the accumulation of easy things I didn‘t do when I

should have done them.

Dr. Dale E. Turner



Work hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves,

some turn up their noses, and some don‘t turn up at all.



Work If you don‘t do more than you‘re paid for, you‘ll only be paid for what you

do.



Work Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson



Work The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Gary Player



Work It‘s amazing the amount of work you can get done if you don‘t do

anything else.



Works Faith reflects our place in God, works reflect God‘s place in us.

Donald Tait



Workers There are four kinds of workers: jawbone, wishbone, backbone, and

kneebone. Which one describes you?



World The people who move the world are the ones who do not let the world

move them.



World The world is too much with us.

William Wordsworth



World To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the

world.



Worry Worry is an old man with bended head carrying a load of feathers he

thinks is lead.

Corrie ten Boom



Worry Fear and worry are interest paid in advance on something you may never

own.



Worry Worry diminishes as we look upward.

Max Lucado



Worry Worry changes nothing.







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Max Lucado



Worry Worry is the misuse of the imagination.

Don Zadra



Worry Worry is irrelevant, doing nothing; worry is irreverent, distrusting God.

Max Lucado



Worry Worry voids today‘s strength. Perception is divided, distorting your

vision. Strength is divided wasting your energy.

Max Lucado



Worry Worry is an option, not an assignment.

Max Lucado



Worry Worry doesn‘t empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its

strength.

Corrie ten Boom



Worry Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia



Worry You can‘t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying over

the future.



Worry Don‘t tell me that worry doesn‘t do any good. I know better. The things I

worry about don‘t happen!



Worry You can‘t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about

the future.



Worry Some people give their worries swimming lessons instead of drowning

them.



Worry Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too

sleepy to worry at night.

Leo Aikman



Worry Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

George Lyons



Worry Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it becomes due.

Dean Inge (also attributed to William Inge)



Worry If you want to test your memory try to remember what you worried about

a year ago today.



Worry There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried

person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.









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Worry Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Swedish Proverb



Worry Worry takes as much time as work and pays less.



Worry Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.



Worry If you worry, you didn‘t pray. If you pray, don‘t worry.



Worry Worry steals our peace, physically wears us out and can even make us

sick.

Joyce Meyer



Worry Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don‘t even

know if you owe.

Mark Twain



Worry Guilt is concerned with the past, worry is concerned about the future, but

contentment enjoys the present.



Worry Don‘t let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out

as a basket case.



Worry The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go

deliberately forth and try to lift with one‘s sympathy the gloom of

somebody else.

Arnold Bennett



Worry Worry is a darkroom where negatives are developed.



Worry Worry often gives small things a big shadow.



Worry Worry is like a rocking chair: It gives you something to do, but doesn‘t get

you anywhere.



Worry Worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.



Worship Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power,

some worship God….but they all worship money.

Mark Twain



Worship The things that will destroy us are: Politics without principle; Pleasure

without conscience; Wealth without work; Knowledge without character;

Business without morality; Science without humanity; and worship without

sacrifice.

Mathatma Gandhi



Worship I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher









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Worship Belief is of the mind, worship of the heart, and obedience of the will.

David Tait



Worship The worship of God through loving service to the poor is an outgrowth of

the public worship of the church.

Bradley Nassif



Worst It is a relief when things get to their worst. You know what the worst is

and can plan for better things.

Elinore Pruitt Stewart



Worth It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses

the worth of a man; but what he is.

Amiel



Worth There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan



Wrong If things go wrong, don‘t go with them.

Roger Babson



Wrong When I am wrong, dear Lord, make me easy to change, and when I am

right, make me easy to live with.

Peter Marshall



Wrong A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but

saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope



Wrong Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. You‘re only saying that

you‘re smarter today than you were yesterday.

Dave Gilpin



Wrong There is something wrong if you are always right.



Wrong ‗Almost right‘ is still wrong.



Yawning Yawning with the mouth closed is one of the most useful social graces.



Yesterday We crucify ourselves between two thieves, regret for yesterday and fear

of tomorrow.



Yesterday Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every

tomorrow a vision of hope.



Yesterday Look to the future; there is no road back to yesterday.

Oswald Chambers



Yesterday Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is

the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.







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Kay Lyons



Yesterday If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of

tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.



Yesterday Yesterday's gone on down the river, and you can't get it back.

Larry McMurtry



Yesterday We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today and

look with hope toward tomorrow.



Young You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.



Young You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry



Young I‘m not young enough to know everything.

J.M. Barrie



Yourself When you love yourself, you forgive your own imperfections.

Marilyn von Savant



Yourself Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music.

The world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls

and interesting people.

Henry Miller



Youth You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your

self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as

your despair.

Samuel Ullman



Youth Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art.



Youth Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of

youth.

Desiderata



Youth Probably the most powerful head of steam ever created is that of young

people trying to set on fire a world that is all wet.



Youth To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take

exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde



Youth People who wonder where this generation is headed will do well to

consider where it came from.



Youth Youth would be an ideal stage if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Asquith







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Zeal Zeal is for the wise, but it is found mostly in fools.



Zeal Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.



Zeal If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a

sinner than a heretic.

Addison



Zeal Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.

John Davies



Zeal Persecuting zeal is Hell‘s fiercest friend.

James Thomson



Zeal Zeal without tolerance is fanaticism.



Zeal There is no zeal so intemperate and cruel as that which is backed by

ignorance.





H.G. Harker

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