Quotes
These are some of my favorite quotes:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliott
“There is no love without forgiveness, and no forgiveness without love.” Bryant H. McGill
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.” Nietzsche
“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” William H. Walton
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” Henry Havelock Ellis
“If you want peace, work for justice.” H.L. Mencken
“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.” Norman Mailer
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much” Oscar Wilde
“Preach the gospel always, if necessary use words.” St. Francis of Assisi
“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” Angela Monet
“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.” Thomas Jefferson
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” Ambrose Bierce
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” Corrie Ten Boom
“I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.” Mother Theresa
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.” Rollo May
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” Robert G. Ingersoll
“People find it far easier to forgive people for being wrong than for being right.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.” Henry Ford
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke
“Life if 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” John Maxwell
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” Mark Twain
“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” David Searls
“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.” Josh McDowell
“Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.” Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Anger is short-lived madness.” Horace
“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.” Penelope Sweet
“He, who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.” Yogi Berra
“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.” Desmond Tutu
“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” Sydney J. Harris
“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.” Dali Lama
“A right delayed is a right denied” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” Malachy McCourt
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley
“There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.” Jackie Robinson
“Forgive or relive.” Anonymous
“If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.” Indian Proverb
“I never said most of the things I said.” Yogi Berra
“Its not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because that we do not dare that that they are difficult.” Seneca
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” Henry Ford
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
“Anger is one letter short of danger.” Author Unknown
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attitude of the strong” Mahatma Gandhi
“A ship is safe in harbor – but that’s not what ships are for.” John A. Shedd
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Theresa
“You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.” Rowandan Proverb
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” Dale Carnegie
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
“Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.” Helen Keller
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” George Patton
“Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it.” Mahatma Gandhi
“An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.” Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” Henry Ford
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” Benjamin Franklin
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” Mahatma Gandhi
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” Benjamin Franklin
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford
“Transformed lives transform lives.” Andy Stanley
“I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.” George Burns
“Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” Yogi Berra
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” Abraham Lincoln
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Mother Theresa
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” Theodore Roosevelt
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“What! Me Worry?” Alfred E. Newman
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” John Barrymore
“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.” Yogi Berra
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” W. Clement Stone
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Yogi Berra
“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” Henry David Thoreau
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.” W. Clement Stone
“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” Henry Ford
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Thomas Jefferson
“Brevity is the soul of wit.” William Shakespeare
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” Mother Theresa
