tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17052694144289305982009-02-21T04:34:18.351-08:00dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03123677977432127690noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1705269414428930598.post-60210436783414729842008-09-27T21:02:00.000-07:002008-09-27T21:06:39.439-07:00She is one of my best friends. Why, I've known her ever since we were the same age.<br />- Galen Cooper<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You never know how many friends you have until you rent a cottage at the beach.<br />- Kraig Kristofferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say, "Here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Oh, there you are."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A word of advice, don't give it.<br />- A. J. Volicos<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.<br />- Erica Jong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Here's a toast to someone who's truly a best friend�a person who goes around telling good things behind your back.<br />- Elmer Pasta<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.<br />- Brother Sammy Shore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.<br />- Evelyn Waugh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes a long time to grow an old friend.<br />- John Leonard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />With friends like you�who needs enemas.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Here's a dime. Call all your friends.<br />- Tom Meany<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are both great men, but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.<br />- Bill Nye<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: "Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Should auld acquaintances be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o'auld lang syne?<br />- James Drummond Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.<br />- Plautus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.<br />- Sydney Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in continue firm and constant.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.<br />- George Washington<br />How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.<br />- Woody Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God enters by a private door into every individual.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God gives the milk but not the pail.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God Himself is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.<br />- Graffiti<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God pays, but not weekly wages.<br />- Polish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God seems to have the receiver off the hook.<br />- Arthur Koestler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.<br />- Yiddish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.<br />- John Locke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.<br />- Jesus Christ<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to, but I very much doubt if he would because it seems to be contrary to the way in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural personal relationships.<br />- Right Rev. David Jenkins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, and I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The glory of God is in man fully alive.<br />- St. Irenaeus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.<br />- Elaine Booster<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.<br />- Woody Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.<br />- Friedrich von Logau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By night an atheist half-believes in God.<br />- Edward Young<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.<br />- Clarence Day<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.<br />- St. Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.<br />- Archibald MacLeish<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man appoints, and God disappoints.<br />- Cervantes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am afraid I shall not find Him, but I shall still look for Him. If He exists, He may be appreciative of my efforts.<br />- Jules Renard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.<br />- Harry Emerson Fosdick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.<br />- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.<br />- Karl Marx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.<br />- Laurence Sterne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.<br />- Jean Anouilh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I could prove God statistically.<br />- George Gallup<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.<br />- Andri Malraux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.<br />- Axel Munthe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An honest God is the noblest work of man.<br />- Robert G. Ingersoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.<br />- Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.<br />- Pablo Picasso<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The nearer the church, the further from God.<br />- Bishop Lancelot Andrewes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God'll send the bill to you.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.<br />- Muslim Creed<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is more exacting than God himself.<br />- Yiddish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give God time.<br />- The Koran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God will be present, whether asked or not.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One on God's side is a majority.<br />- Wendell Phillips<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If triangles had a God, he would have three sides.<br />- Montesquieu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.<br />- Dutch proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.<br />- Meher Baba<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.<br />- William Cowper<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man proposes; God disposes.<br />- Thomas a Kempis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If God made us in his image, we have certainly returned the compliment.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.<br />- Thomas Reid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite. Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.<br />- David Jenkins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.<br />- Meister Eckhart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.<br />- Emmanuel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A comprehended God is no God at all.<br />- Gerhard Tersteegen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"What do you think of God," the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, "He's not a think, he's a feel."<br />- Paul Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.<br />- Joycelyn Elders<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.<br />- Rabbi Harold Kushner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is to me that creative Force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.<br />- Henry Sloane Coffin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite. Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God, that dumping ground of our dreams.<br />- Jean Rostand<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God, to be God, must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.<br />- Rufus M. Jones<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.<br />- Jean Paul Richter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is a verb, not a noun.<br />- R. Buckminster Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God, whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.<br />- Max Lerner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God has many names, though He is only one Being.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.<br />- Ernest Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.<br />- Saint Catherine of Siena<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.<br />- Eva Burrows<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The soul can split the sky in two, and let the face of God shine through.<br />- Edna Saint Vincent Millay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God enters by a private door into every individual.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.<br />- Thomas a Kempis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.<br />- Shakti Gawain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people talk about finding God, as if He could get lost.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hunting God is a great adventure.<br />- Marie DeFloris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the faces of men and women I see God.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To Be is to live with God.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.<br />- William Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The kingdom of God is within you.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.<br />- George Macdonald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.<br />- Yasunari Kawabata<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The light of God surrounds me, The love of God enfolds me, The power of God protects me, The Presence of God watches over me, Wherever I am, God is.<br />- Prayer Card<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.<br />- D. M. Street<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.<br />- Saint Angela of Foligno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.<br />- Saint Angela of Foligno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.<br />- Saint Angela of Foligno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In every out-thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth.<br />- Rachel Carson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.<br />- Gemma Galagani<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.<br />- Maria Goretti<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.<br />- Hildegard of Bingen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.<br />- Etty Hillesum<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.<br />- Shakti Gawain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.<br />- Mary Gardiner Brainard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.<br />- Nancy Parker Brummett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.<br />- Therese of Lisieux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.<br />- Edwin Markham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair, I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in You, my God.<br />- Gemma Galgani<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.<br />- Elizabeth Ann Seton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.<br />- Thomas Merton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute.<br />- Bayard Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.<br />- Philip James Bailey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not, nor may strong helpers anything avail, nor wise counselors give profitable counsel, nor the cunning of doctors give consolation, nor riches deliver in time of need, nor a secret place to defend, if Thou, Lord, do not assist, help, comfort, counsel, inform, and defend.<br />- Thomas a Kempis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.<br />- Bernadette Soubirous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.<br />- Harriet Beecher Stowe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.<br />- J. P. DeCaussade<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."<br />- A. P. Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.<br />- D. M. Street<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My debt to you, Beloved, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.<br />- Jessie Rittenhouse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.<br />- Jonathan Edwards<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to revere.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man hates God without first hating himself.<br />- Fulton J. Sheen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.<br />- William Ralph Inge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.<br />- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.<br />- Madame Necker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.<br />- Mary Gardiner Brainard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Gawd knows, and 'E won't split on a pal.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.<br />- Paul Tillich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.<br />- Saint Elizabeth of Hungary<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.<br />- Saint Agnes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God delays, but doesn't forget.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is clever, but not dishonest.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God-I His atom.<br />- Elizabeth Ann Seton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?<br />- Friedrich Jacobi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.<br />- Jane Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.<br />- Ernest Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.<br />- A. J. Cronin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.<br />- Phillip Hewett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God has not promised skies always blue, flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day, rest for the labor, light for the way, Grace for the trials, help from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.<br />- Annie Johnson Flint<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.<br />- J. Ruth Gendler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.<br />- Alcoholics Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.<br />- Alcoholics Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.<br />- Abraham Heschel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.<br />- Alice Walker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.<br />- Bayazid Al-Bistami<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.<br />- Howard Chandler Christy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.<br />- Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.<br />- Corrie ten Boom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is more within us than we are ourselves.<br />- Elizabeth Ann Seton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.<br />- General Omar N. Bradley<br />There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.<br />- Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.<br />- John Gardner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />'Mr. President, I am praying for you. 'Which way, Senator?'<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fewer the words, the better the prayer.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.<br />- Jean Ingelow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.<br />- Richard J. Needham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Only man, among living things, says prayers. Or needs to.<br />- Peter Bowman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.<br />- Richard M. Milnes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.<br />- Charles G. Finney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.<br />- Georges Lefevre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.<br />- John Aikman Wallace<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer changes things.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.<br />- Soren Kierkegaard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no hope but in prayer.<br />- Andrew Bonar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.<br />- Jessie Penn-Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men of God are always men of prayer.<br />- Henry T Mahan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.<br />- James Martineau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.<br />- Delma Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.<br />- Sandra L. Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh, what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!<br />- Lady Maxwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer!<br />- David Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.<br />- Francois de Fenelon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.<br />- Sir William Gurney Benham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.<br />- George David Stewart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.<br />- Samuel Chadwick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.<br />- John Berridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.<br />- Guy H. King<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.<br />- J. C. Ryle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.<br />- Philipp Melanchthon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The first purpose of prayer is to know God.<br />- Charles L. Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.<br />- Charles Sanders Peirce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.<br />- Watchman Nee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter what may be the test, God will take care of you; Lean, weary one, upon His breast, God will take care of you.<br />- CD. Martin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.<br />- William Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Non-praying is lawlessness, discord, anarchy.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.<br />- John Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.<br />- A. B. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.<br />- Thomas B. Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.<br />- William McGill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.<br />- Sandra L. Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.<br />- Samuel M. Shoemaker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.<br />- John Laidlaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Praying is learned by praying.<br />- L. A. T. van Dooren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to pray is to pray, and the way to pray well is to pray much.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.<br />- Paul Rees<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.<br />- Stephen Charnock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.<br />- Brendan Francis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.<br />- Brother Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rejoice always, pray constantly, and in all circumstances give thanks.<br />- The Desert Fathers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do I want to pray or only to think about my human problems? Do I want to pray or simply kneel there contemplating my sorrow? Do I want to direct my prayer toward God or let it direct itself towards me?<br />- Hubert Van Zeller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O thou, by whom we come to God, The Life, the Truth, the Way, The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.<br />- James Montgomery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dealing in generalities is the death of prayer.<br />- J. H. Evans<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.<br />- Carlo Carretto<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The right way to pray, then, is any way that allows us to communicate with God.<br />- Colleen Townsend Evans<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grant us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.<br />- Jane Austen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that will learn to pray, let him to sea.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Incense is prayer That drives no bargain. Child, learn from incense How best to pray.<br />- Alfred Barrett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If our petitions are in accordance with His will, and if we seek His glory in the asking, the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.<br />- J. K. Maclean<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer can assume very different forms, from quiet, blessed contemplation of God, in which eye meets eye in restful meditation, to deep sighs or sudden exclamations of wonder, joy, gratitude or adoration.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He prays best who does not know that he is praying.<br />- Saint Anthony of Padua<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.<br />- Edward M. Goulburn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.<br />- Vance Havner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray till you pray.<br />- D. M. Mclntyre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A day without prayer is a boast against God.<br />- Owen Carr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried, secret lingerings in prayer.<br />- J. Sidlow Baxter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way.<br />- Earl G. Hunt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Seven days without prayer makes one weak.<br />- Allen E. Bartlett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lord, you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you, do not you forget me.<br />- Jacob Astley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.<br />- Philip Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.<br />- Saint John Chrysostom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.<br />- Charles Wesley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.<br />- The Desert Fathers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.<br />- Jeremy Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Abiding fully means praying much.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.<br />- A. B. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.<br />- Victor Hugo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The minds of people are so cluttered up with every-day living these days that they don't, or won't, take time out for a little prayer-for mental cleansing, just as they take a bath for physical, outer cleansing. Both are necessary.<br />- Jo Ann Carlson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.<br />- Richard Cecil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time spent in prayer is never wasted.<br />- Francois de Fenelon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.<br />- J. C. Ryle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.<br />- Billy Bray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.<br />- Charles Baudelaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.<br />- Samuel Pepys<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.<br />- Erica Jong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.<br />- Austin O'Malley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?<br />- Ethel Barrymore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer begins where human capacity ends.<br />- Marian Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />"Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once." It is the commonest prayer in all languages.<br />- Sir James M. Barrie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.<br />- Fred Beck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I am weak, then am I strong.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He will regard the prayer of the destitute.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My strength is made perfect in weakness.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.<br />- Daniel A. Poling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble and prayer are closely related. . . . Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.<br />- Philipp Melanchthon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."<br />- Dan Plies<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.<br />- B. Graham Dienert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.<br />- Satchel Paige<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.<br />- Duffy Daugherty<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.<br />- Walter A. Mueller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.<br />- William Wilberforce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.<br />- Herbert Lockyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.<br />- Jane Frances de Chantal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.<br />- Geoffrey B. Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.<br />- Frederick Denison Maurice<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be dumb.<br />- Thomas B. Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.<br />- Philip Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.<br />- Jonathan Edwards<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.<br />- William S. Plumer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.<br />- Richard Crashaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.<br />- Leon Bloy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.<br />- Francis Quarles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.<br />- Maltbie D. Babcock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.<br />- Malcolm Boyd<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.<br />- Robert Herrick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.<br />- Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.<br />- John Bunyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.<br />- Herman Melville<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives<br />- A. W Tozer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.<br />- John Keble<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.<br />- George Meredith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />None can pray well but he that lives well.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.<br />- Thomas Watson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.<br />- John Owen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.<br />- Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.<br />- James Montgomery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.<br />- Hannah More<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.<br />- Voltaire<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best prayers have often more groans than words.<br />- John Bunyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.<br />- John Bunyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.<br />- Brother Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son; It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.<br />- John Richard Moreland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."<br />- Bennett Cerf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.<br />- Richard Sibbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.<br />- Adam Clarke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.<br />- Ruth Graham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />With God there is no need for long speeches.<br />- Jane Frances de Chantal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fewer the words, the better the prayer.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.<br />- Jane Frances de Chantal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best what is good for us.<br />- John Selden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.<br />- Brother Lawrence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Short prayers pierceth Heaven.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.<br />- John Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.<br />- Saint Bridget of Sweden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.<br />- A. W. Pink<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ye have not, because ye ask not.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.<br />- John Greenleaf Whittier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.<br />- Bill W.<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let your requests be made known unto God.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And whatever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.<br />- Ann Wigmore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.<br />- Hugh Prather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord, attend unto my cry.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask the gods nothing excessive.<br />- Aeschylus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.<br />- Arlo F. Newell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most people do not pray; they only beg.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.<br />- John Trapp<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask in faith.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.<br />- William Temple<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.<br />- A. W. Tozer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.<br />- Samuel Rutherford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.<br />- Thomas Manton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray for one another.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.<br />- Talmud<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />See to it, night and day, that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them, even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.<br />- Sojourner Truth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.<br />- New England Sampler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.<br />- Soong Mei-ling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the only prayer you say in your whole life is "Thank you," that would suffice.<br />- Meister Eckhart<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our Father, let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.<br />- W. B. Slack<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.<br />- John Bunyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.<br />- Soren Kierkegaard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.<br />- Jayne Crook<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't be timid when you pray; rather, batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked, for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence.<br />- Herbert Lockyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.<br />- Thomas B. Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.<br />- J. C. Ryle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.<br />- William S. Plumer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!<br />- Henry Martyn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.<br />- Thomas B. Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.<br />- William Jenkyn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.<br />- John Wesley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.<br />- J. Hudson Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.<br />- Charles Wesley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.<br />- Margaret Gibb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.<br />- A. B. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lord, take my lips and speak through them; take my mind and think through it; take my heart and set it on fire.<br />- W. H. Aitken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not what we wish, but what we need, Oh! let your grace supply, The good unasked, in mercy grant; The ill, though asked, deny.<br />- James Merrick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.<br />- Juvenal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.<br />- William Penn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are going home to many who cannot read. So, Lord, make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.<br />- Anonymous Chinese woman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.<br />- Matthew Henry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Help me to work and pray, Help me to live each day, That all I do may say, Thy kingdom come.<br />- A. B. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.<br />- Frank C. Laubach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord, let me not live to be useless!<br />- Bishop John de Stratford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God give me work, till my life shall end And life, till my work is done.<br />- Winifred Holtby's epitaph<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For we know not what we should pray for.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.<br />- Charles Hamilton Aide<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.<br />- Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.<br />- Saint Francis of Assisi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.<br />- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.<br />- George Meredith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.<br />- Ruth Graham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs, but to invite Him to rule our lives.<br />- Clarence Bauman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.<br />- Samuel M. Shoemaker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.<br />- Francois de Fenelon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will, not the other way around.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore, whether you pray for big things or for little things, say to God, "If it will glorify Thy name, then grant my prayer and help me."<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.<br />- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads, and pray "Lord, show me where I'm wrong"?<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women don't have halos built in.<br />- Lorraine Hine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me."<br />- Franklin Delano Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Create in me a clean heart, O God.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.<br />- Phillips Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray not for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.<br />- Theodore Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden, Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior, still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!<br />- Joseph Scriven<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.<br />- Frances Ridley Havergal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His word and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.<br />- W. W. Walford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.<br />- Robert Leighton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.<br />- Eliza M. Hickok<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.<br />- Saint Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you, but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion, and thankful in prayer.<br />- The Desert Fathers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.<br />- Thomas a Kempis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Casting all your care upon Him; for he careth for you.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.<br />- Psalms ss:zx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!<br />- Appollonius of Tyana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him, it is His responsi-bility.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."<br />- Alan Redpath<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.<br />- J. C. Ryle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you pray for anyone, you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When my children do wrong, I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.<br />- William Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.<br />- Dame Flora Robson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.<br />- Hippocrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.<br />- Aesop<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.<br />- Bernard of Clairvaux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.<br />- Archbishop Francis J. Spellman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.<br />- William Booth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Help yourself and heaven will help you.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God helps those who help themselves.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God help those who do not help themselves.<br />- Wilson Mizner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.<br />- Josiah G. Holland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.<br />- Sir William Gurney Benham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore.<br />- Russian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Call on God, but row away from the rocks.<br />- Indian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.<br />- Aeschylus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first.<br />- Arab proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.<br />- Epicurus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.<br />- Sa'di<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.<br />- A. J. Gordon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Visualize, "prayerize," "actionize," and your wishes will come true.<br />- Charles L. Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!<br />- General Peter Muhlenberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.<br />- Gerald Vann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.<br />- Katheryn Hulme<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.<br />- William S. Plumer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.<br />- Ruth Stafford Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are four ways God answers prayer: No, not yet; No, I love you too much; Yes, I thought you'd never ask; Yes, and here's more.<br />- Anne Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit; every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.<br />- John Blanchard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.<br />- Adoniram Judson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.<br />- Harry Emerson Fosdick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.<br />- Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.<br />- J. L. Kraft<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.<br />- William Temple<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.<br />- George Meredith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.<br />- Stephen Crotts<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.<br />- KB. Meyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think Thy answers make me what I am.<br />- George Macdonald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer, but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God delays, but doesn't forget.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.<br />- John Calvin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for, his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for, he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed, no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing, humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we be empty and poor, it is not because God's hand is straitened, but ours is not opened.<br />- Thomas Manton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.<br />- Eliza M. Hickok<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"; God always answers with what we need.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless; To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.<br />- John Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that you receive them, and ye shall have them.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.<br />- T. L. Cuyler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.<br />- William Gurnall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.<br />- C. S. Lewis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do, who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."<br />- Roy M. Pearson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.<br />- T. L. Cuyler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In seasons of distress and grief, My soul has often found relief, And oft escaped the tempter's snare, By thy return, sweet hour of prayer.<br />- W. W. Walford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.<br />- Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.<br />- Adoniram Judson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.<br />- E. B. Pusey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations, for only He knows the whole story.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; May the name of the God of Jacob protect you, May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just when I need Him, He is my all, Answering when upon Him I call; Tenderly watching lest I should fall.<br />- William Poole<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.<br />- William S. Plumer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you go to your knees, God will help you stand up to anything.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress, and all paths lead to a single light.<br />- Douglas Meador<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Amazing things start happening when we start praying!<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.<br />- F. B. Meyer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.<br />- Clara Palmer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The essence of prayer, even of a mystical experience, is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.<br />- Matthew Fox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a kind of calling home every day. And there can come to you a serenity, a feeling of at-homeness in God's universe, a peace that the world can neither give nor disturb, a fresh courage, a new insight, a holy boldness that you'll never, never get any other way.<br />- Earl G. Hunt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.<br />- Bill W.<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God is a rich and bountiful Father, and He does not forget His children, nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.<br />- J. K. Maclean<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children's welfare, so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family, and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse.<br />- J. K. Maclean<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.<br />- Anna Delaney Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublim-est; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let it be your business every day, in the secrecy of the inner chamber, to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.<br />- Andrew Murray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we pray for anything according to the will of God, we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive; but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God, and have learned to leave this in His hands, and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.<br />- Saint John Chrysostom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.<br />- Bryon Edwards<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.<br />- William Culbertson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers, and severely by answering them.<br />- Richard J. Needham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the gods are angry with a man, they give him what he asks for.<br />- Greek proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.<br />- Jean Ingelow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the voice of faith.<br />- William Van Home<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.<br />- Thomas Watson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.<br />- Vavasor Powell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.<br />- Robert Hall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies, but great faith still greater.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.<br />- George Mueller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Teach me, O God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.<br />- Soren Kierkegaard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Faith is the fountain of prayer, and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.<br />- Thomas Manton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?<br />- Lily Tomlin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.<br />- Gordon Lindsay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.<br />- Dean Register<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.<br />- Thomas Watson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.<br />- John Bunyan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.<br />- V. L. Crawford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.<br />- Edwin Keith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the acid test of devotion.<br />- Samuel Chadwick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.<br />- Robert Hall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."<br />- A. B. Simpson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.<br />- Alexander Whyte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.<br />- E. W. Kenyon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.<br />- E. M. Bounds<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.<br />- Saint John Chrysostom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.<br />- Philip James Bailey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned God-ward.<br />- Phillips Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the pillow of religion.<br />- Arab proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.<br />- O. Hallesby<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.<br />- Saint John Chrysostom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.<br />- Rose Pastor Stokes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The prayers of the Christian are secret, but their effect cannot be hidden.<br />- Howard Chandler Robbins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is the only creature which rises by bowing, for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lord, till I reach that blissful shore, No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.<br />- Charlotte Elliott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.<br />- Dick Eastman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.<br />- Ashleigh Brilliant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.<br />- Andre Gide<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.<br />- Georges Bernanos<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says, "I care."<br />- Dick Eastman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.<br />- Madame de Stael<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.<br />- George E. Rees<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.<br />- Austin Phelps<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.<br />- John Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.<br />- Dwight L. Moody<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.<br />- John Donne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.<br />- Malcolm Boyd<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am used to praying when I am alone, thank God. But when I come together with other people, when I need more than ever to pray, I still cannot get used to it.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.<br />- Jonathan Swift<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.<br />- Rudolph Steiner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.<br />- Thomas Lye<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.<br />- William Cowper<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God dwells where we let God in.<br />- Menachem Mendel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.<br />- J. Ruth Gendler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.<br />- Oliver Goldsmith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wings of prayer carry high and far.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done; In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished, patience won; And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall, Ere thou listen, ere thou answer, Turn to Jesus, tell Him all.<br />- G. M. Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.<br />- Masefield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Turn your doubts to question; turn your question to prayers; turn your prayers to God.<br />- Mark R. Litteton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.<br />- Dr. Alexis Carrel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.<br />- The Desert Fathers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.<br />- Corrie ten Boom<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.<br />- Oswald Chambers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.<br />- Charles Haddon Spurgeon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward.<br />- Phillips Brooks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!<br />- James Drummond Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is the voice of faith.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ�Truth and Light.<br />- Mary Baker Eddy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.<br />- Oliver Goldsmith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.<br />- George Edward Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me.<br />- William King<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way!<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.<br />- John Masefield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.<br />- Francis Cardinal Spellman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.<br />- Robert Louis Stevenson<br />A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.<br />- Edgar Watson Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman, the more careful she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.<br />- Ben Jonson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche, more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.<br />- Polly Toynbee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.<br />- Sophie Tucker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.<br />- Cyril Connolly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.<br />- Cesare Pavese<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.<br />- Rebecca West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The battle for women's rights has been largely won.<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.<br />- Freya Stark<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is "what does a woman want"?<br />- Sigmund Freud<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.<br />- Washington Irving<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.<br />- Dorothy L. Sayers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We don't love a woman for what she says, but we like what she says because we love her.<br />- Andri Maurois<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.<br />- Charlotte Perkins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women can do everything; men can do the rest.<br />- Russian proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.<br />- Samuel Pepys<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.<br />- Georges Courteline<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.<br />- Helen Lawrenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman is always buying something.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.<br />- Kurt Vonnegut<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.<br />- Nellie McClung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.<br />- Mistinguette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.<br />- Zen proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.<br />- Golda Meir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of my two 'handicaps', being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.<br />- Shirley Chisholm<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from.<br />- Patricia C. Beudoin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.<br />- Nellie McClung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.<br />- Charlotte Whitton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.<br />- Lin Yutang<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.<br />- Nicol Williamson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woman is at once apple and serpent.<br />- Heinrich Heine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.<br />- J. K. Galbraith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One is not born a woman - one becomes one.<br />- Simone de Beauvoir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected, that is essential.'<br />- Beaumarchais<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.<br />- Oliver Goldsmith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?<br />- Aldous Huxley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.<br />- Ada Levenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.<br />- Evan Esar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.<br />- Lady Kasluck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.<br />- Colette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.<br />- Germaine Greer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.<br />- Sally Kempton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.<br />- Sally Kempton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.<br />- Billie Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.<br />- Judith Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I know the nature of women; When you want to, they don't want to; And when you don't want to, they desire exceedingly.<br />- Terence<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even the most respectable woman has a complete set of clothes in her wardrobe ready for a possible abduction.<br />- Sacha Guitry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My vigour, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.<br />- Nancy Lady Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.<br />- John Keats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.<br />- Theodor Reik<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.<br />- Peggy Joyce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.<br />- Laurence J. Peter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.<br />- Irvin S. Cobb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.<br />- Barbey d'Aurevilly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.<br />- Elizabeth Cady Stanton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.<br />- Leslie M. Mclntyre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was a woman who drove me to drink - and, you know, I never even thanked her.<br />- W. C. Fields<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?<br />- Friedrich Nietzsche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.<br />- Margaret Mead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.<br />- Letty Cottin Pogrebin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As a woman, to be competitive is to be passive.<br />- Marianne Partridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are like elephants. They are interesting to look at, but I wouldn't like to own one.<br />- W. C. Fields<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.<br />- Margaret Sanger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.<br />- Ludwig Borne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?<br />- Golda Meir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.<br />- Jules Michelet<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some women blush when they are kissed; some call for the police; some swear; some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What will not woman, gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?<br />- Robert Southey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.<br />- Cornelia Otis Skinner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons?<br />- Susan B. Anthony<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.<br />- Compton Mackenzie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In various stages of her life, a woman resembles the continents of the world. From 13 to 18, she's like Africa- virgin territory, unexplored; from 18 to 30, she's like Asia- hot and exotic; from 30 to 45, she's like America - fully explored and free with her resources; from 45 to 55, she's like Europe - exhausted, but not without places of interest; after 55, she's like Australia - everybody knows it's down there but nobody much cares.<br />- AI Boliska<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.<br />- John Weitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woman's place is in the wrong.<br />- James Thurber<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.<br />- Helena Rubenstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.<br />- Gloria Steinem<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I dress for women - and I undress for men.<br />- Angle Dickinson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.<br />- Ladles' Home Journal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.<br />- Anthony Delano<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked.<br />- Ovid<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One can find women who have never had a love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.<br />- La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mirror is the conscience of women; they never do a thing without first consulting it.<br />- Morltz G. Saphlr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men, because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. But male ecclesiastics remained unconvinced as regards the sufferings of women, at any rate in childbirth.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The cleverest woman finds a need for foolish admirers.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.<br />- Nellie McClung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.<br />- Doris Lesslng<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.<br />- Anne Morrow Lindbergh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even better.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.<br />- Frank O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.<br />- William Faulkner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.<br />- Gunnar Myrdal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When Eleanor Roosevelt was asked if she had any regrets about her life she replied "Just one. I wish I had been prettier."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women always have some mental reservation.<br />- Louis Ferdinand Destouches<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.<br />- Sir James Matthew Barrie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love.<br />- Lord Byron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.<br />- Sebastien Chamfort<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.<br />- William Congreve<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.<br />- Abraham Cowley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men say of women what pleases them! women do with men what pleases them.<br />- De Segur<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cbercbez lafemme. (Find the woman.)<br />- Alexander Dumas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The society of women is the foundation of good manners.<br />- Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.<br />- Remy de Gourmont<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.<br />- Thomas Haliburton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The crown of creation.<br />- Herdeb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man has his will,�but woman has her way.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.<br />- Victor Hugo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An' I learned about women from 'er.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.<br />- La Bruyere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Earth's noblest thing, a Woman perfected.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.<br />- De Maistre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Too fair to worship, too divine to love.<br />- Henry Hart Milman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woman's at best a contradiction still.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.<br />- C. G. D. Roberts<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.<br />- Rochebrune<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Such, Polly, are your sex�part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all contradiction.<br />- Richard Savage<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.<br />- Friedrich von Schiller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.<br />- Schopenhauer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!<br />- Walter Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fraily, thy name is woman!<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the beginning, said a Persian poet�Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram� it was a woman.<br />- William Sharp<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman either loves or hates: she knows no medium.<br />- Syrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.<br />- Wordsworth William<br />A man's ruin lies in his tongue.<br />- Egyptian saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man, to accomplish his end, may even carry his foe on his shoulder.<br />- Panchatantra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.<br />- Brigitte Bardot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.<br />- Howard Ruff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.<br />- Hermann Hesse<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.<br />- Pierre Elliott Trudeau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Night is the mother of counsels.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.<br />- Tobias Smollett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.<br />- Diane Arbus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.<br />- Oscar Hammerstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.<br />- William Blake<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.<br />- Joseph Heller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.<br />- Phaedrus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wisdom comes alone through suffering.<br />- Aeschylus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain And simple to express: Err And err And err again But less And less And less.<br />- Piet Hein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man hears one word and understands two.<br />- Jewish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Through wisdom a house is built and through understanding it is established.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great men are not always wise.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.<br />- Hugo Grotius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A word to the wise is infuriating.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.<br />- William Temple<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.<br />- Philippe Quinault<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.<br />- Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.<br />- John Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stovelid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.<br />- Alexandre Dumas the Elder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.<br />- Rent Coty<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.<br />- Adlai Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.<br />- Theodore Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deliberate often - decide once.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.<br />- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.<br />- Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.<br />- Anatole France<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My father used to say: Son, if you are not bright, you've got to be methodical, (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)<br />- Robert Sachs<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds, his wisdom does not endure.<br />- The Talmud<br />A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.<br />- Henry Kissinger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.<br />- Myra McPherson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All wars are popular for the first 30 days.<br />- Arthur Schlesinger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Good things, when short, are twice as good.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.<br />- Alan Bennett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In time of war the devil makes more room in hell.<br />- German proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.<br />- Karl von Clausewitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war.<br />- Bernard Baruch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Morality is contraband in war.<br />- Mahatma Gandhi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.<br />- Robert Burns<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So long as the anti-militarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of hate, so long they fail to realize the full equities of the situation.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of U.S.A. - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.<br />- Marshall McLuhan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.<br />- George Orwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There never was a good war or a bad peace.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They will conquer, but they will not convince.<br />- Miguel de Unamuno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.<br />- Lewis Carroll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.<br />- Jean-Paul Sartre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.<br />- R. I. Fitzhenry<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.<br />- Georges Clemenceau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.<br />- Georges Clemenceau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.<br />- David Ormsby Gore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Either war is obsolete, or men are.<br />- Buckminster Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.<br />- Northrop Frye<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.<br />- Arthur Koestler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.<br />- Anais Nin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is the unfolding of miscalculations.<br />- Barbara Tuchman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.<br />- Sun Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.<br />- Anne O'Hare McCormick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.<br />- Brendan Behan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.<br />- Sun Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Frankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.<br />- Joseph Heller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is the national industry of Prussia.<br />- Mirabeau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.<br />- Woodrow Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it.<br />- Latin proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.<br />- Duke of Wellington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.<br />- John Ciardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In time of war the first casualty is truth.<br />- Boake Carter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />World War II was the last government program that really worked.<br />- George Will<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle - to get one's head cut off.<br />- Lewis Carroll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.<br />- Bonar Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.<br />- John Foster Dulles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War would end if the dead could return.<br />- Stanley Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.<br />- Carl Sandburg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. People court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.<br />- Nels F. S. Ferre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The object of war is to survive it.<br />- John Irving<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men love war because it allows them to look serious; because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.<br />- John Fowles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War hath no fury like a non-combatant.<br />- E. C. Montague<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.<br />- Jonathan Swift<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.<br />- Duke of Wellington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.<br />- Robert Ardrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is the trade of kings.<br />- John Dryden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.<br />- Duke of Wellington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.<br />- Robert E. Lee<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.<br />- Homer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what courage you have against discomfort, at the least, and death at the other end, ties you to the people you have known in the war and makes for a time others seem alien and frivolous.<br />- Lillian Hellman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Vice stirs up war; virtue fights.<br />- Vauvenargues<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.<br />- Herodotus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.<br />- Ivan Krylov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy.<br />- Horatio Nelson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.<br />- Horatio Nelson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is like love, it always finds a way.<br />- Bertolt Brecht<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.<br />- Mao Tse-Tung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It simply is not true that war never settles anything.<br />- Felix Frankfurter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War does not determine who is right - only who is left.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no atheists in the foxholes.<br />- William Thomas Cummings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.<br />- William T. Sherman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There will be no veterans of World War III.<br />- Walter Mondale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is the science of destruction.<br />- John S. C. Abbott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.<br />- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.<br />- Otto von Bismarck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War never leaves, where it found a nation.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)<br />- Julius Caesar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />(The great questions of the day) are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.<br />- Otto von Bismarck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What millions died�that Caesar might be great!<br />- Thomas Campbell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What distinguishes war is, not that man is slain, but that he is slain, spoiled, crushed by the cruelty, the injustice, the treachery, the murderous hand of man.<br />- William Ellery Channing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />General Taylor never surrenders.<br />- Thomas L. Crittenden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.<br />- General Croghan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble.<br />- John Dryden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There never was a good war or a bad peace.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hang yourself, brave Crillon. We fought at Arques, and you were not there.<br />- Henry IV<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not right to exult over slain men.<br />- Homer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.<br />- Julia Ward Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.<br />- G. W. Hunt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have prayed in her fields of poppies, I have laughed with the men who died� But in all my ways and through all my days Like a friend He walked beside. I have seen a sight under Heaven That only God understands, In the battle's glare I have seen Christ there With the Sword of God in His hand.<br />- Gordon Johnstone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.<br />- Frank Knox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.<br />- Bonar Law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />0 God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me.<br />- Prince Leopold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The ballot is stronger than the bullet.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe, March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!<br />- Rouget de Lisle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ez for war, I call it murder,� There you hev it plain and flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.<br />- James Russell Lowell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.<br />- Martin Luther<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders' fields.<br />- John McCrae<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War hath no fury like a noncombatant.<br />- C. E. Montague<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wars and rumours of wars.<br />- Matthew<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />And this I hate�not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face.<br />- Joseph Dana Miler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When after many battles past, Both tir'd with blows, make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.<br />- Francis Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The brazen throat of war.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God how the dead men Grin by the wall, Watching the fun Of the Victory Ball.<br />- Alfred Noyes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O war! thou son of Hell!<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A bad peace is even worse than war.<br />- Tacitus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br />Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.<br />- Kathleen Norris<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.<br />- Florence Scovel Shinn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.<br />- John Powell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.<br />- Ruth Ross<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.<br />- Rosalynn Carter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What man can imagine he may one day achieve.<br />- Nancy Hale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.<br />- Dorothea Brande<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our visions begin with our desires.<br />- Audre Lorde<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.<br />- Virginia Woolf<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.<br />- Margaret Deland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.<br />- Nadine Gordimer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.<br />- Libby Houston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing happens unless first a dream.<br />- Carl Sandburg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.<br />- Barbara Kingsolver<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.<br />- Louise Otto<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.<br />- Diana Rankin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.<br />- Mary Church Terrell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.<br />- Vic Braden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.<br />- Pamela Vaull Starr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When we can't dream any longer, we die.<br />- Emma Goldman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.<br />- Langston Hughes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.<br />- Jenny R d'Hericourt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.<br />- Gail Godwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.<br />- Raisa M. Gorbachev<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.<br />- Lauren Bacall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?<br />- Alice James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.<br />- Muriel Rukeyser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.<br />- Louise Driscoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.<br />- Emily Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It may be that those who do most, dream most.<br />- Stephen Leacock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.<br />- Emily Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.<br />- Mary Chase<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.<br />- Arthur Ashe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.<br />- Dag Hammarskjold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.<br />- Ingrid Bengis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.<br />- Shirley Temple Black<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.<br />- Mona Caird<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.<br />- Marcia Wieder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No vision and you perish; No ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.<br />- Harriet Du Autermont<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.<br />- Frederick Pierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.<br />- Oriana Fallaci<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.<br />- Grenville Kleiser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.<br />- Dr. Robert Jarvik<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When there is no vision, people perish.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.<br />- Tom Robbins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.<br />- Paul Bourge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.<br />- Dr. Edward De Bono<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.<br />- Madame Swetchine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.<br />- H. L. Mencken<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.<br />- Dorothy L. Sayers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.<br />- Simone Weil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.<br />- Joseph Addison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.<br />- Don Herold<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.<br />- Blaise Pascal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />None think the great unhappy but the great.<br />- Edward Young<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.<br />- Carl Jung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sadness is a state of sin.<br />- Andre Gide<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.<br />- Don Marquis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />There is no such thing as inner peace, there is only nervousness and death.<br />- Fran Lebowitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When fire and water are at war it is the fire that loses.<br />- Spanish proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.<br />- George Orwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One sword keeps another in the sheath.<br />- George Herbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.<br />- Paul Valery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.<br />- Benedict Spinoza<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.<br />- Daniel Berrigan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.<br />- Jean-Paul Sartre<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The peace of the man who has foresworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where they make a desert, they call it peace.<br />- Tacitus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.<br />- William Feather<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace: in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They sicken of the calm who know the storm.<br />- Dorothy Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Time spent with cats is never wasted.<br />- Colette<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.<br />- Albert Schweitzer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.<br />- Jane Pauley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.<br />- Cynthia E. Varnado<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you.<br />- Mary Bly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.<br />- Jeff Valdez<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.<br />- Joseph Wood Krutch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cats are angels with fur.<br />- Sark<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies.<br />- Gene Hill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.<br />- Bern Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.<br />- Ann Landers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.<br />- Roger Caras<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.<br />- Michael Rosen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A dog Is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The dog is the god of frolic.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have always thought of a dog lover as a dog that was in love with another dog.<br />- James Thurber<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A dog wags its tail with its heart.<br />- Martin Buxbaum<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.<br />- Max Eastman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.<br />- Louis Sabin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the sons of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.<br />- Leo the Great<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.<br />- Gerald Jampolsky<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.<br />- Geraldine Ferraro<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.<br />- Mother Teresa<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not find peace.<br />- Albert Schweitzer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It isn't enough to talk about peace; one must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it; one must work at it.<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love�love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.<br />- Richard Cardinal Cushing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.<br />- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.<br />- Harry S. Truman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes two to make peace.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.<br />- Robert Persig<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.<br />- La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.<br />- The Buddha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace, like charity, begins at home.<br />- Franklin D. Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.<br />- Eskimo proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love).� Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).<br />- Peter McWilliams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.<br />- Ernest Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities,<br />- Orison S. Marden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.<br />- Edmund Spenser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.<br />- Sir John Lubbock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.<br />- Mary Dunbar<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.<br />- Thomas Dreier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us�how we take it, what we do with it�and that is what really counts in the end.<br />- Joseph Newton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.<br />- A. A. Willitts<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is very 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.<br />- W. Clement Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.<br />- Bob Conklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.<br />- Leo Buscagua<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.<br />- John Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires�disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.<br />- Bernie Siegel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Out of difficulties grow miracles.<br />- La Bruyere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.<br />- J. M. Barrie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.<br />- Louisa May Alcott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.<br />- May Sarton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.<br />- M. Scott Peck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.<br />- John Lennon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.<br />- Barbara Markoff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.<br />- Peter McWilliams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.<br />- Lucimar Santos de Lima<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser�in case you thought optimism was dead.<br />- Robert Brault<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pessimism never won any battle.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.<br />- Greg Anderson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.<br />- Orison S. Marden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.<br />- Maxwell Maltz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.<br />- Richard Devos<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.<br />- Henry Chester<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.<br />- Bruce Barton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.<br />- James Ramsey Ullman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.<br />- Edith Armstrong<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.<br />- Robert Collier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No matter what level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.<br />- James McCay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone has got it in him, if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.<br />- Charles Schwab<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.<br />- Benjamin Spock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.<br />- Thomas Alva Edison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.<br />- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: yourself.<br />- Alan Alda<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.<br />- John Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.<br />- Thomas Alva Edison<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.<br />- Wendell Phillips<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.<br />- W. Clement Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.<br />- Betty Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes.<br />- Par Lagerkvist<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We're all only fragile threads, but what a tapestry we make.<br />- Jerry Ellis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!<br />- Daphne Rose Kingma<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.<br />- William Collins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace be with you.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have never advocated war, except as a means of peace.<br />- Ulysses S. Grant<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.<br />- Louis Kossuth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace at any price.<br />- Alphonse de Lamartine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Glory to God, in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace be to this house.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.<br />- Napoleon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within they palaces.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.<br />- Lord Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.<br />- Winfield Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If the pursuit of peace is both old and new, it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated, for it has to do with people, and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.<br />- Adlai Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.<br />- Tennyson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.<br />- George Washington<br />A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.<br />- Lord Bowen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?<br />- Harold Pinter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.<br />- Bernard Lonergan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.<br />- Charles Yost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.<br />- Josephine Tessier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To teach how to live with uncertainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can still do for those who study it.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.<br />- Samuel Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.<br />- Charles F. Kettering<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.<br />- Charles M. Schulz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy - the purple bullfinch in the lilac tree.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.<br />- Laurence Sterne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.<br />- Bertrand Russell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.<br />- Alice Roosevelt Longworth<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.<br />- Jonathan Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.<br />- Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one. and a lily with the other.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.<br />- Niels Bohr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an errant jade on a journey.<br />- Oliver Goldsmith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, the gnomed mine -Unweave a rainbow.<br />- John Keats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy is doubt.<br />- Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.<br />- David Hume<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One's task is not to turn the world upside down, but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.<br />- Dietrich Bonhoeffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.<br />- Sir Francis Bacon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.<br />- Ambrose Bierce<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.<br />- Havelock Ellis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.<br />- James Froude<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whence? wither? why? how?�these questions cover all philosophy.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.<br />- George Bernard Shaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.<br />- Voltaire<br />A drainless shower of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power; 'tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.<br />- John Keats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.<br />- Dylan Thomas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.<br />- Thomas Hardy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.<br />- Wallace Stevens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked, upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is not a profession, it's a destiny.<br />- Mikhail Dudan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.<br />- Stephane Mallarme<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies.<br />- Gerald Brenan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.<br />- G. K. Chesterton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.<br />- Robert Graves<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.<br />- Robert Graves<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice.<br />- Earle Birney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.<br />- E. B. White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.<br />- William Ellery Channing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.<br />- Cyril Connolly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The poet is the priest of the invisible.<br />- Wallace Stevens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.<br />- Randall Jarrell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.<br />- Robert Penn Warren<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.<br />- J. M. Synge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is all nouns and verbs.<br />- Marianne Moore<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose - words in their best order; poetry - the best words in their best order.<br />- Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.<br />- Oliver Wendell Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.<br />- Christopher Morley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.<br />- Joseph Roux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.<br />- George Santayana<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.<br />- Percy Bysshe Shelley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.<br />- William Butler Yeats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is a mug's game.<br />- T. S. Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.<br />- John Masefield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.<br />- Phyllis McGinley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To have great poets there must be great audiences too.<br />- Walt Whitman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.<br />- Ogden Nash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.<br />- Robert Frost<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.<br />- Carl Sandburg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.<br />- Carl Sandburg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right.<br />- Rudyard Kipling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.<br />- Maxwell Bodenheim<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.<br />- Sylvia Plath<br />All I know is I'm not a Marxist.<br />- Karl Marx<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .<br />- Joseph Gies<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.<br />- Adlai Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.<br />- Charles de Gaulle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.<br />- Socrates<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is a blood sport.<br />- Aneurin Bevan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.<br />- Ronald Reagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.<br />- George Jean Nathan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.<br />- Stanley Kubrick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.<br />- Plato<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.<br />- William White law<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.<br />- Mark Twain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.<br />- Tommy Douglas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.<br />- Albert Einstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.<br />- Henry Kissinger<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.<br />- Mason Cooley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked.<br />- Dean Rusk<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.<br />- Bernard Crick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The essential ingredient of politics is timing.<br />- Pierre Elliott Trudeau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.<br />- Harold Macmillan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.<br />- Arnold A. Rogow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.<br />- John Bailey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.<br />- John G. Diefenbaker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.<br />- Harold Macmillan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.<br />- Henry Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.<br />- Albert Camus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.<br />- Reinhold Niebuhr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.<br />- Lord Acton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.<br />- Joseph Howe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Damn your principles! Stick to your party!<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.<br />- John Morley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.<br />- Sidney Hillman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is but the common pulse beat.<br />- Wendell Phillips<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In politics a week is a very long time.<br />- Harold Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.<br />- Pierre Elliott Trudeau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.<br />- Ely Culbertson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.<br />- Alexis de Tocqueville<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is war without bloodshed, and war is politics with blood.<br />- Mao Tse-Tung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.<br />- Nellie McClung<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees.<br />- Boris Marshalov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.<br />- Henry Cabot Lodge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.<br />- Woodrow Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.<br />- Charles de Gaulle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.<br />- Theodore White<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.<br />- Sam Himmel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.<br />- Bernard Baruch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.<br />- Adlai Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.<br />- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.<br />- Alexander Douglas-Home<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The lady's not for turning.<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.<br />- Aneurin Bevan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.<br />- John P. Roche<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.<br />- Charles de Gaulle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.<br />- Richard Nixon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.<br />- Lord Boyd-Orr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by mself.<br />- Herbert Hoover<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.<br />- George Orwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Deep down he is shallow.<br />- Political saying<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?<br />- Lord Trent<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.<br />- Everett Dirksen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.<br />- Bob Rae<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.<br />- Eugene McCarthy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.<br />- Eugene McCarthy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.<br />- William L. Marcy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.<br />- Franklin D. Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.<br />- William Butler Yeats<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.<br />- Winston Churchill<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Money is the mother's milk of politics.<br />- Jesse Unruh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.<br />- Robert F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.<br />- John F. Kennedy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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.<br />- Eugene McCarthy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa} It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.<br />- Robert Orben<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.<br />- Texas Guinan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men in high levels of government seldom surf.<br />- Rita Rudner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Liberals think you can reform an ax murderer. They don't want to kill anything. They want to change the Listerine labels to "Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath."<br />- Marc Price<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.<br />- Ivern Ball<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?<br />- Vat Paulsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is�I could be just as proud for half the money.<br />- Arthur Godfrey<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?<br />- Bob Hope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.<br />- John Nance Garner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.<br />- William Whitelaw<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol, alcohol, and Geritol.<br />- Wallace Rowling<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As a politician he does everything to keep out of trouble, often by not asking questions. However, it does bother him that every time the doorbell rings his maid hides in the dryer.<br />- Jay Leno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.<br />- Doug Larson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.<br />- Wendy Morgan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.<br />- Red Skelton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.<br />- Clarence Darrow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.<br />- Jay Leno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice�and they poisoned him.<br />- George Bush<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.<br />- Margaret Thatcher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The public is very fickle, as I was saying to my cabdriver, Gerald Ford.<br />- Pat McCormick<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.<br />- Eugene McCarthy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him.<br />- Adlai Stevenson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.<br />- John Arbuthnot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is by nature a civic animal.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is not an exact science.<br />- Otto von Bismarck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.<br />- James Freeman Clarke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is a condition which confronts us�not a theory.<br />- Grover Cleveland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A majority is always better than the best repartee.<br />- Benjamin Disraeli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.<br />- John Dryden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.<br />- W. S. Gilbert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.<br />- John Ingalls<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor.<br />- Charles J. Ingersoll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.<br />- Thomas Jefferson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.<br />- Daniel O'Connell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politics is but the common pulsebeat, of which revolution is the feverspasm.<br />- Wendell Phillips<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.<br />- Will Rogers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.<br />- Austin O'Malley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.<br />- Theodore Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve.<br />- William Tecumseh Sherman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?<br />- William Thackerary<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?<br />- William M. Tweed<br />Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.<br />- Gwyneth Paltrow<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is what he believes.<br />- Anton Chekhov<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are what we believe we are.<br />- Benjamin N. Cardozo<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.<br />- Shakti Gawain<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.<br />- Douglas Malloch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.<br />- Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.<br />- John Lilly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.<br />- Frank Lloyd Wright<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.<br />- Katherine Paterson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.<br />- Katherine Paterson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it!<br />- Eleanor Roosevelt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Failure is impossible.<br />- Susan B. Anthony<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.<br />- Mary Kay Ash<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.<br />- Horace Rutledge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.<br />- Candice M. Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.<br />- Louisa May Alcott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.<br />- May Sarton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.<br />- Fulton J. Sheen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.<br />- Lucille Ball<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.<br />- Cathy Better<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.<br />- Coco Chanel<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.<br />- Elizabeth Bo wen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.<br />- Julia Child<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.<br />- Amelia Barr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.<br />- Sarah Doudney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another look at him.<br />- Margaret Drabble<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.<br />- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present-love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.<br />- Sarah Ban Breathnach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.<br />- Joan Lunden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.<br />- James Lane Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.<br />- Emily Bronte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.<br />- Muriel Rukeyser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.<br />- Lydia H. Sigourney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.<br />- Andrew Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.<br />- Edgar Allan Poe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.<br />- Audrey Snead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.<br />- Lucy Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.<br />- Judith Viorst<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.<br />- Alice Potter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.<br />- Lord Byron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is the ability to recognize it.<br />- Carolyn Wells<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The saddest day hath gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it, The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.<br />- Sarah Winnemucca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every thought we think is creating our future.<br />- Louise L. Hay<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.<br />- Katherine Mansfield<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The words "I am ..." are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.<br />- A. L. Kitselman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.<br />- Maxwell Maltz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.<br />- Victoria, Queen of England<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To think of losing is to lose already.<br />- Sylvia Townsend Warner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.<br />- WW. Ziege<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.<br />- Malcolm Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.<br />- Peace Pilgrim<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They can because they think they can.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.<br />- Ruth Bader Ginsberg<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.<br />- Zora Neale Hurston<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.<br />- Judith Martin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.<br />- Sir Walter Scott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.<br />- Colleen C. Barrett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What we see depends mainly on what we look for.<br />- John Lubbock<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People only see what they are prepared to see.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.<br />- Margaret Atwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.<br />- Jules Renard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He that seeks trouble always finds it.<br />- English proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.<br />- Jean de la Fontaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go, struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.<br />- Mary Church Terrell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart... will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.<br />- Henry Ward Beecher<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.<br />- Thomas Mann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.<br />- Alexander Pope<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.<br />- William Makepeace Thackeray<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.<br />- Ernest Holmes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.<br />- Thomas Dreier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.<br />- Herbert Samuels<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.<br />- Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.<br />- Leontyne Price<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.<br />- Federico Fellini<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.<br />- Agatha Christie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is literally what he thinks.<br />- James Lane Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.<br />- Susan Sontag<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts ... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly.<br />- William Ellery Channing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.<br />- James Lane Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.<br />- Thomas Dreier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's life is what his thoughts make it.<br />- Marcus Aurelius<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.<br />- Thomas Dreier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is what he thinks about all day long.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.<br />- Buddha<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.<br />- Eddie Rickenbacker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right.<br />- Henry Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.<br />- Orison Swett Marden<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.<br />- Dr. Frank Crane<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.<br />- Henry B. Wilson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.<br />- Maurice Maeterlinck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.<br />- Lucan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts, and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you think it's going to rain, it will.<br />- Clint Eastwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.<br />- James Lane Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God will help you if you try, and you can if you think you can.<br />- Anna Delaney Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.<br />- Francis Marion Crawford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action.<br />- Andre Godin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts; since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public, and his own present and future benefit in all respects.<br />- William Penn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.<br />- James A. Farley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They can because they think they can.<br />- Virgil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.<br />- Tyron Edwards<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Keep your thoughts right, for as you think, so are you. Therefore, think only those things that will make the world better, and you unashamed.<br />- Henry H. Buckley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.<br />- Ayn Rand<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What you think means more than anything else in your life.<br />- George Matthew Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Change your thoughts and you change your world.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.<br />- Yogi Berra<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.<br />- Arlene Raven<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.<br />- Ira Gassen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The wisdom of all ages and cultures emphasizes the tremendous power our thoughts have over our character and circumstances.<br />- Liane Cordes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.<br />- Maurice Maeterlinck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.<br />- Honore de Balzac<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!<br />- Anne Frank<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.<br />- Jacopo Sannazaro<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.<br />- Marcus Annaeus Seneca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.<br />- David Hume<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.<br />- John Milton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All happiness is in the mind.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.<br />- Alice Meynell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.<br />- Martha Washington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am happy and content because I think I am.<br />- Alain-Rene Lesage<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.<br />- Cicero<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.<br />- William Lyon Phelps<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.<br />- Paul Bourge<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.<br />- Leo Tolstoy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.<br />- Maurice Maeterlinck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.<br />- Thomas Fuller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Misery is almost always the result of thinking.<br />- Joseph Joubert<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.<br />- Bernard de Fontenelle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.<br />- Teresa of Avila<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.<br />- Helen Gurley Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway, you'd never get upset about anything again.<br />- Mildred Davis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.<br />- Zachary T. Bercovitz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.<br />- Margaret Deland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.<br />- Ann Landers<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The body manifests what the mind harbors.<br />- Jerry Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations-plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred, one never worried about the minor ones.<br />- Mildred Davis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Give me good health and I'll take care of the rest.<br />- Marilyn Home<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.<br />- Michael Hirsch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can promote your healing by your thinking.<br />- James E. Sweeney<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.<br />- Thomas Wolfe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.<br />- Thomas A. Buckner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.<br />- Catharine Marshall<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.<br />- Franchise Sagan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.<br />- Golda Meir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.<br />- Sydney Biddle Barrows<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them, and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.<br />- Dr. Ruth Westheimer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.<br />- Tyne Daly<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They never raised a statue to a critic.<br />- Martha Graham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.<br />- Bette Davis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.<br />- Dwight D. Eisenhower<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.<br />- Ruth Gordon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't be pessimistic, because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic, you'd go out of business.<br />- John DePasquale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.<br />- Dolores Huerta<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.<br />- Agnes Repplier<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.<br />- Jerry Rubin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy.<br />- Gena Rowland<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as affectively as by bombs.<br />- Kenneth Clark<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.<br />- Art Sisson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.<br />- L. P. Jacks<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I don't believe in pessimism.<br />- Clint Eastwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If any has a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.<br />- Elinor Wylie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.<br />- George Meredith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />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 which has been opened for us.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.<br />- Jelaluddin Rumi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.<br />- Charles B. Newcomb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism is an intellectual choice.<br />- Diana Schneider<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think of only three things: your God, your family and the Green Bay Packers-in that order.<br />- Vince Lombardi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You live with your thoughts-so be careful what they are.<br />- Eva Arrington<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts.<br />- James W. Fulbright<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.<br />- Abel Stevens<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.<br />- Susan Taylor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Your imagination has much to do with your life. ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.<br />- Philip Conley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.<br />- Nicholas Hilliard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.<br />- Vincent van Gogh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.<br />- Mary McLeod Bethune<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.<br />- Louise Bogan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.<br />- Dorothea Brande<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach.<br />- Margo Jones<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.<br />- Peace Pilgrim<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.<br />- Ayn Rand<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your own heart.<br />- Sarah Winnemucca<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.<br />- Elizabeth Dole<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.<br />- Margery Allingham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible . . . what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!<br />- Soren Kierkegaard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe, despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?<br />- Jane Adams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The basic success orientation is having an optimistic attitude.<br />- John DePasquale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.<br />- Eddie Rickenbacker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, "I'm all right so far"?<br />- Gretel Ehrlich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.<br />- Lucimar Santos de Lima<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an impatience with negative thinking ... my feeling was, even if it's as bad as I think it is, we'll make it work.<br />- Edward McCabe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.<br />- Philip Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I am going to complete every pass.<br />- Ron Jaworski<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.<br />- Euripides<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Every noble work is at first impossible.<br />- Thomas Carlyle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.<br />- Nicholas Murray Butler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.<br />- Henry Ford<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.<br />- Wernher von Braun<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.<br />- Charles Franklin Kettering<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />On the human chessboard, all moves are possible.<br />- Miriam Schiff<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.<br />- Daniel L. Reardon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.<br />- Pearl S. Buck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.<br />- Simone de Beauvoir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Like begets like; honesty begets honesty; trust, trust; and so on.<br />- James F. Bell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.<br />- Henry L. Stimson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.<br />- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.<br />- Simone de Beauvoir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.<br />- Lin Yutang<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.<br />- John Paul Jones<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.<br />- Marya Mannes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.<br />- Norman Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.<br />- Henry Miller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.<br />- Robert Hugh Benson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.<br />- Saint Augustine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.<br />- John Wicker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.<br />- Arthur Rubinstein<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.<br />- William Cobbett<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are made kind by being kind.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business that is, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.<br />- Preston Bradley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.<br />- Liv Ullmann<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Kindness gives birth to kindness.<br />- Sophocles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.<br />- Kahlil Gibran<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.<br />- Virginia Satir<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.<br />- Viktor Frankl<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.<br />- Fay Weldon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.<br />- Florence Ellinwood Allen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.<br />- Margery Allingham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.<br />- Raymond Charles Barker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.<br />- Marie Corelli<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.<br />- Delia Ephron<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you prepare for old age, old age comes sooner.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.<br />- Nancy Astor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.<br />- Rita Mae Brown<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.<br />- Beatrix Potter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I made the decision. I'm accountable.<br />- Janet Reno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What we prepare for is what we shall get.<br />- William Graham Sumner<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.<br />- Margaret Mead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.<br />- Florence Scovel Shinn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.<br />- Mildred Newman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.<br />- Florence Nightingale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.<br />- Preston Bradley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.<br />- Janet Begbie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.<br />- Joan Didion<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.<br />- Marian Wright Edelman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.<br />- Josh Billings<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.<br />- Vivian Greene<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.<br />- Shere Hite<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.<br />- Lady Bird Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.<br />- Maxwell Maltz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.<br />- Malcolm Forbes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.<br />- Susan Powter<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To heal ourselves we also have to heal society.<br />- Riane Eisler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Here is where some entrepreneurs fail. They are filled with creative juices and total commitment to their business, but too often they don't understand that they must also be managers, administrators, even gofers-at least for a while.<br />- Lillian Vernon<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.<br />- Margaret Atwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.<br />- George R. Gissing<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The words "I am ..." are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.<br />- A. L. Kitselman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A word after a word after a word is power.<br />- Margaret Atwood<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.<br />- Jane Austen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.<br />- Isaac Bashevis Singer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.<br />- Toni Cade Bambara<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.<br />- Michael Hirsch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.<br />- Christina Baldwin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.<br />- Elizabeth Charles<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!<br />- Jenny Lind<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.<br />- William J. H. Boetcker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.<br />- Saint Basil<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!<br />- Julia Dorr<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.<br />- Bible<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.<br />- Oscar Hammerstein II<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />1 Give to the world the best you have I and the best will come back to you.<br />- Madeline Bridges<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other.... There are always plenty of surprises-and lots of give and take-once you're married.<br />- Muriel Fox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.<br />- Lao-Tzu<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference, it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight, he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.<br />- John Richelsen<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.<br />- Marlene Dietrich<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They say, "You can't give a smile away; it always comes back." The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.<br />- Susan RoAne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.<br />- Heather Williams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.<br />- Kathleen Winsor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.<br />- Catherine the Great<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.<br />- James Whitcomb Riley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People are not going to love you unless you love them.<br />- Pat Carroll<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.<br />- Norman Vincent Peale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you would be loved, love and be lovable.<br />- Benjamin Franklin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People, by and large, will relate to the image you project.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.<br />- Michel de Montaigne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.<br />- Malay proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.<br />- Alexandre Dumas<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by travelling west. There is no philosophy which will help a man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.<br />- Charles Baudouin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Dangers by being despised grow great.<br />- Edmund Burke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.<br />- Florence Scovel Shinn<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Doubt breeds doubt.<br />- Franz Grillparzer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.<br />- Frances Ridley Havergal<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fear breeds fear.<br />- Byron Janis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The thing we fear we bring to pass.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.<br />- Dame Rebecca West<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.<br />- Jean de la Bruyere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.<br />- Reggie Jackson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.<br />- Henry L. Stimson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.<br />- Lady Bird Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.<br />- Eric Hoffer<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.<br />- Haim Ginott<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.<br />- John Steinbeck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.<br />- Jacob A. Riis<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.<br />- Johann von Goethe<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.<br />- Elbert Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be-not what you nag them to be.<br />- S. N. Parker<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our self-image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.<br />- Maxwell Maltz<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.<br />- Felix Adler<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We planted flowers last year, and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.<br />- Neal McHugh<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Act as if it were impossible to fail.<br />- Dorothea Brande<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.<br />- William James<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful.<br />- Home Tooke<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Assume a virtue, if you have it not.<br />- William Shakespeare<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.<br />- Jean de la Bruyere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you want to be a big company tomorrow, you have to start acting like one today.<br />- Thomas Watson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.<br />- Henry David Thoreau<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.<br />- Kurt Vonnegut<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.<br />- Dale Carnegie<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I couldn't hit a wall with a sixgun, but I can twirl one. It looks good.<br />- John Wayne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.<br />- Charles Caleb Colton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong.<br />- Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed, at least one must pretend to.<br />- Moliere<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.<br />- Baltasar Gracian<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.<br />- Lillian Hellman<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you've got it, flaunt it. If you do not, pretend.<br />- Wally Phillips<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.<br />- Epictetus<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.<br />- Miguel de Unamuno<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.<br />- Rene Descartes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.<br />- Marge Piercy<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.<br />- Shirley MacLaine<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.<br />- Grenville Kleiser<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.<br />- Jean Bach<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.<br />- Helen Keller<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.<br />- Aristotle<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.<br />- General Creighton W. Abrams<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My center is giving way, my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.<br />- Marshal Ferdinand Foch<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If you act like you're rich, you'll get rich.<br />- Adnan Koashoggi<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'll just hit the dry side of the ball.<br />- Stan Musial<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.<br />- Tom O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.<br />- General Oliver Prince Smith<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.<br />- Pierre S. DuPont IV<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I am dying, but otherwise I am quite well.<br />- Edith Sitwell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.<br />- Daniel Boone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.<br />- John Ruskin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.<br />- Abraham Lincoln<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack.<br />- Sir Andrew Cunningham<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.<br />- Napoleon Bonaparte<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.<br />- Will Garcia<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.<br />- Bobby Layne<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.<br />- Mike Todd<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.<br />- Tom O'Connor<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I'm not overweight, I'm just nine inches too short.<br />- Shelley Winters<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Anyone can have an off decade.<br />- Larry Cole<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Practice being excited.<br />- Bill Foster<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.<br />- Chinese proverb<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Knock the "t" off the "can't."<br />- George Reeves<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.<br />- Kin Hubbard<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.<br />- Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.<br />- Sara Teasdale<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Clear your mind of "can't."<br />- Samuel Johnson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.<br />- Grace Paley<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is never too late to be what you might have been.<br />- George Eliot<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better.<br />- Frank Hughes<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."<br />- W Clement Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.<br />- F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.<br />- L. M. Montgomery<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.<br />- W. Clement Stone<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />I learned really to practice mustard seed faith, and positive thinking, and remarkable things happened.<br />- Sir John Walton<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Failure is impossible.<br />- Susan B. Anthony<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.<br />- Gregory Bateson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.<br />- George Jean Nathan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />We think in generalities, but we live in detail.<br />- Alfred North Whitehead<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.<br />- Anonymous<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.<br />- Park Cousins<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.<br />- Lin Yutang<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.<br />- Henri Bergson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />As is our confidence, so is our capacity.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.<br />- William Hazlitt<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after generation.<br />- Pearl S. Buck<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />What we love, we shall grow to resemble.<br />- Bernard of Clairvaux<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!<br />- John Donnell<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.<br />- Gerald Brenan<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.<br />- Louis L'Amour<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Skill to do comes of doing.<br />- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.<br />- Andre Godin<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Success produces success, just as money produces money.<br />- Nicolas de Chamfort<br />Add to Favorite List<br /> <br />Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.<br />- Saint Bartholomew<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1705269414428930598-6021043678341472984?l=famous-quotes-reasearch4.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03123677977432127690noreply@blogger.com0