Quotes aboutA Good Life,

Wisdom, and Discipline

Section 1

Quotes of 1-2 lines in length

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.- Thomas Paine

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.- Sir Winston Churchill

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.- Democritus of Abdera,

Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak.- Epicetus,

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.- Aristotle

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.- Elmer Davis

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.- Chinese Proverb

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”- Corrie Ten Boom

Be the task great or small,Do it well or not at all.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.- Sir Walter Scott

I find television very educational. When it's on I go into the other room and read a book.- Groucho Marx

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can.--Abraham Lincoln

The pig promised himself that he would never think badly of any creature again.- from the movie, Babe

There may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help.- George Merriam

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.- Helen Keller

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.- Mother Teresa

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.- Joseph Addison, essayist/poet(1672-1719)

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.- William Godwin, political philosopher/writer (1756-1836)

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are built to do.- John A.Shedd

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.- Thomas A. Edison

We are all gifted, we just open our gifts at different times!- Eben E. Rexford, Peterson's Magazine 1881.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. – Cicero

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."- Vincent Van Gogh

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties.- William Bradford

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

The best time to do something is when it can be done.- William Pickens

Do not wait for leaders; Do it alone, person to person.- Mother Teresa

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.- Mother Goose

The only good advice is a good example.- Ossie Davis

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.- Mark Twain

Never leave to tomorrow that which you can do today- Benjamin Franklin

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.- Ambrose Bierce

Anger is never without reason, but seldom a good one.- Benjamin Franklin

The best thing about animals is that they do not talk much.- Thornton Wilder

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually, it becomes a cat.- Ogden Nash

When the ape cannot reach the bananas he says they are sour.- Bambara proverb

The bad workman always blames his tools.- Chinese proverb

He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.- Benjamin Franklin

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.- Wayne Gretzky

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.- Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard

- A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. Saint Mama

While there's life, there's hope.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction.- General Douglas MacArthur

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.- Martin Luther King Jr.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.- Edmund Burke

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.- John Dryden

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.- Seneca

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.- Titus Maccius Plautus

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.- John Ruskin

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.- Booker T. Washington

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.- Horace

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.- Robert Browning

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.- Pope John Paul II

Successful parents do what unsuccessful parents are unwilling to do.- The Garcia-Prats (parents of 10 boys and authors of Good Families Don’t Just Happen)

The feet find the road easy when the heart walks with them.- Anonymous

Our children will rise to the level of expectations we have of them.- From the movie Stand and Deliver

Be what you want your children to be, and watch them grow.- Leo Buscaglia

When you play, play hard; When you work, don’t play at all.- Theodore Roosevelt

By the work one knows the workman.- Jean De La Fontaine

Let your guest be a guest for two days, on the third day give him a hoe!- Swahili proverb

Many hands make light work- English proverb

Labor disgraces no man. Unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.- Ulysses S. Grant

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.- Thomas Edison

It is far easier to start something than to finish it.- Amelia Earhart

Well begun is half done.- Horace

The value of any action lies in seeing through to the end.- Genghis Khan

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.- Anonymous

Fall seven times, stand up eight.- Japanese proverb

Little strokes Fell great oaks.- Benjamin Franklin

Diligence is the mother of good luck.- Benjamin Franklin

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.- Samuel Johnson

Tomorrow, tomorrow, not today, Lazy people always say.- German proverb

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.- Bob Talbert

A quitter never wins; a winner never quits.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.- Vauvenargues

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.- Vauvenargues

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.- Vauvenargues

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it’s worth it if you score a spectacular goal.- Mia Hamm

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.- Ellis Peters

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.- John Ruskin

What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner I stand for consensus”?- Margaret Thatcher

A sharp tongue sometimes cuts its own throat.- Jim Scancarelli

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.- Robert Fulghum

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.- Batasar Gracian

As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.- Po Bronson

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.- Harold B. Lee

You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.- P.D. James

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining character of intelligence.- Robert J. Shiller

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.- Emerson

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.- Mother Teresa

A good home must be made, not bought.- Joyce Maynard

Anyone can observe the Sabbath, but making holy surely takes the rest of the week.- Alice Walker

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.- Bonnie Friedman

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.- Cherie Carter-Scott

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.- David Starr Jordon

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.- Jerry Flint

One kind word can warm three winter months.- Japanese proverb

Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you’re willing to do your best.- Colin Powell

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.- Ben Franklin

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.- William Cowper

Self interest is the enemy of all true affection.- Tacitus

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.- La Bruyere

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.- Samuel Johnson

To escape criticism – do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.- Elbert Hubbard

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.- Titus Maccius Plautus

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

No one is truly successful in life until he learns how to serve.- Anonymous

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.- Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.- Mark Twain

Many receive advice, few profit by it.- Publilius Syrus

Saying is one thing and doing is another.- Montaigne

Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.- Ptahhotpe

Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.- Francis Bacon

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.- Henry Brooks Adams

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.- Sir Philip Sidney

I've learned that being kind is more important than being right.- Andy Rooney

I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future.

Faith. You can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.- Samuel Butler

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.- Confucius

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.- Thomas Carlyle

Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.- Harry Emerson Fosdick.

What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, is prayer to the soul.- Corrie Ten Boom

Wrong is wrong even if everyone else is doing it. Right is right even if no one else is doing it.- St. Augustine

The world is full of so many things I think that we should be as happy as kings.

After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.- Thomas Hardy

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.- Herbert Spencer

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A faithful friend is the medicine of life.- The Apocrypha

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.- Benjamin Disraeli

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.- Aeschylus

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.- Mark Twain

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.- Leonardo da Vinci

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.- Henry David Thoreau

We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.- Dwight Morrow

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.- Ovid

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.- Titus Maccius Plautus

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.- Mark Twain

Virtue, even attempted virtue, brings light; indulgence brings fog.- C.S. Lewis

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.- Theodore Roosevelt

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.- Benjamin Franklin

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.- John Heywood

We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess.- Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard, French journalist (1734-1817)

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.- Edmund Burke

Adore God. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence- Thomas Jefferson, 1825

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.- Martin Luther King Jr.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.- William Congreve

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.- George Berkeley

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.- Seneca

Second thoughts are ever wiser.- Euripides

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path.- Mencius

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.- Euripides

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!- Horace

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.- Carrie Chapman Catt

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.- Sophocles

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.- Aristotle

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.- Euripides

May you live all the days of your life.- Jonathan Swift

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.- Euripides

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.- Euripides

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.- Publilius Syrus

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Idleness and lack of occupation tend, nay are dragged, towards evil.- Hippocrates

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.- Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

In charity there is no excess.- Francis Bacon

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.- Robert E. Lee

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.- Claude Adrien Helvetius

Love truth, but pardon error.- Voltaire

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.- Thomas Kempis

There is not greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.- Leo Tolstoy

When in doubt tell the truth.- Mark Twain

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.- Alain de Lille

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.- Demosthenes

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.- Lew Wallace

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.- Jonathan Swift

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.- FranÁois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.- C.S. Lewis

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.- Pascal

Bright is the ring of words when the right man rings them.- Robert Louis Stevenson

The mind is always the dupe of the heart.- FranÁois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.- John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. – Hesiod

Much learning does not teach understanding.- Heraclitus

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.- Plato

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.- Arthur Schopenhauer

When you ask God to send you trials, you may be sure your prayer will be granted.- Leon Bloy

There is no legitimate religion apart from truth.- John Calvin

If you don’t want the fruits of sin, stay out of the devil’s orchard.

Smooth seas do not make a skilled sailor.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.- English proverb

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.- A. W. Tozer

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.- James Montgomery Boice

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.- John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn

Only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient, believes.- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.- John Lothrop Motley

Man's way of saying things encourages pride; God's way of saying things encourages humility.- Frank Sells

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.- Samuel Johnson

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.- Herbert Spencer

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.- Malcolm Forbes

To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.- John Milton

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.- Franklin Pierce Adams

Good words are worth much, and cost little.- George Herbert

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.- George Bernard Shaw

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.- Herodotus

Divine punishments are also mercies, and particular good is worked out of particular evil.- C.S. Lewis

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.- A. W. Tozer

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.- St. John Chrysostom

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The Gospels do not explain the resurrection, the resurrection explains the Gospels.- John S. Whale

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?- Pope Julius III

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.- Emerson

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.- Aldous Huxley

Reason in man is rather like God in the world.- St. Thomas Aquinas

A great flame follows a little spark.- Dante

If the imagination were obedient, the appetites would give us very little trouble.- C.S. Lewis

If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.- Anatole France

Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.- Miguel de Cervantes

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.- Edmund Burke

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.- Luis Palau

The power of evil men exists and lives on the cowardice of the timid and the good.- St. John Bosco

Silence in the presence of an attack is consent.- Charley Reese

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.- RenÈ Descartes

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.- Anne Bradstreet

Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt.- Anonymous

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.- St. Augustine

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.- Louis Brandeis

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.- Galileo

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.- Beatrix Potter

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.- E. M. Forster

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.- Henry Ford

The beginning of health is sleep.- (Proverb)

It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.- Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.- Margaret Mead

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.- Wilson Mizner

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.- Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.- Leo Tolstoy

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.- Winston Churchill

Perfection is the child of Time.- Bishop Joseph Hall

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.- George Savile, Marquis of Halifax

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.- George Savile, Marquis of Halifax

Success is nothing more than going from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm.- Winston Churchill

Like that of leaves is a generation of men.- Homer

This is the one best omen, to fight in defense of one's own country.- Homer

From all the offspring of the earth and heaven love is the most precious.- Sappho

For a city consists in its men, and not in its walls nor ships empty of men.- Nicias

You can't step twice into the same river.- Heraclitus

Let no one enter who does not know geometry.- inscription above the door at the Academy of Athens

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.- Sir Walter Scott

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.- Yates

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.- Raymond Inmon

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can.- Abraham Lincoln

As our face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts.- James Allen

By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own.- D. L. Moody

There may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help.- George Merriam

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.- Helen Keller

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.- Mother Teresa

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.- Joseph Addison, essayist/poet (1672-1719)

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.- William Godwin, political philosopher/writer (1756-1836)

Man's mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand as to recall a word once spoken.- Menander

If we judge people, we don't have time to love them.- Mother Teresa

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are built to do.- John A.Shedd

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.- Cicero

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.- Vincent Van Gogh

To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.- Donald Laird

A truly spiritual man's creed is not live and let live, but live and help live.- Roger Babson

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble.- Doctor Van Dyke

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.- Sophocles

A dictionary is the only place where you will find success before work!

Section 2

Quotes of 3-4 lines in length

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.- St. Thomas Aquinas

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.- Dale Carnegie

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.- Bernard Mannes Baruch

Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes; so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise.- Akhenaton

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.- Seneca

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge.- Confucius

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.- Anatole France

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.- Voltaire

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.- Henry Brooks Adams,

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.- G. K. Chesterton

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.- Thomas Carlyle

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.- Charles Lamb

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.- William Jennings Bryan

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, `Art'

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.- James M. Barrie

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.- Albert Einstein

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.- George Santayana

I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.- Edward Everett Hale

“Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is nothing else.”- C.S. Lewis

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense.--Thomas Edison (1847-1931), Inventor

He who will not settle for second best but waits for the best will find it waiting for him! Love must be all or it is nothing.- Elizabeth Yates' book, With Pipe, Paddle, and Song p. 167

Farmer Hoggett knew little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away, should never be ignored; for in them lie the seeds of destiny.- from the movie, Babe

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.- Basil

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.- Rob Gilbert

If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.- Isaac Newton

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.- Theodore Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.- Josh Billings

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.- Leonardo da Vinci

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute, he simply speaks and does what is right.- Mencius

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.- Francis Bacon

People are successful at the things to which they devote most of their time and effort. It’s a question of deciding what’s important in your life and working hard to achieve it.- The Garcia-Prats (parents of 10 boys and authors of Good Families Don’t Just Happen)

I am not asking you tonight, Lord, for the time to do this and then that, but your grace to do conscientiously, in the time that you give me, what you want me to do.- Michel Quoist

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.- Kahlil Gibran

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, “Certainly I can.” Then get busy and find out how to do it.- Theodore Roosevelt

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.- Longfellow

If a task is once begun Never leave it till it’s done Be the labor great or small Do it well or not at all.- Anonymous

To find fault with a speech is not difficult - nay, it is very easy; but to put anything better in its place is a work of great labour.- Plutarchus

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.- Phyllis Diller

A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.- Dave Meurer

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.- Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.- Rabbi David Wolpe

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.- C.S. Lewis

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.- Meister Eckhart

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.- George Eliot

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.- William Arthur Ward

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.- Charles Dickens

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkoff

When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him.- Senator Paul Douglas

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.- John Burroughs, 1837-1921

Mankind is never truly thankful for the benefits of life until they have experienced the want of them.- an Army surgeon near Valley Forge, on the first official national Thanksgiving Day, 1789

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.- Thucydides

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right.- Julius Paulus

Christians must learn again what Christians have always known: how to live without immediate hopes in the world.- T. R. Milford

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.- John Milton

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.- John Owen

To identify one's self with the truth is to place one's self in the heart of a storm from which there is no escape for life.- D. M. Patton

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute he simply speaks and does what is right.- Mencius

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.- Mark Twain

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.- Robert Louis Stevenson

While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued; but when they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.- Samuel Adamshtml

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.- Martin Luther King, Jr. Strength to Love, Ch. 3.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.- Ben Jonson

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.- Phillips Brooks

The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor. The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything.- Unknown

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word darkness on the walls of his cell.- C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.- C.S. Lewis

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.- John Stuart Mill

The superior man . . . does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow.- Confucius

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.- George Bernard Shaw

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.- Pope John Paul II

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.- Martin Luther

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.- George S. Patton

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride and fear.- Horace Mann

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God.- Brother Lawrence

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.- Edmund Burke

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.- Robert E. Lee

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience.- James Russell Lowell

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.- Josiah C. Wedgwood

To achieve happiness by a succession of pleasures is like trying to keep up a light all night by striking successive matches.- Sir William Beach Thomas

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.- C.S. Lewis

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.- Plutarch

One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbors should not enter into alliances with them.- Sun Tzu

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.- Thomas Paine

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably.- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Adam was but human; this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.- Mark Twain

We must love them both those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth, and helped us in the finding of it.- St. Thomas Aquinas

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.- Dante

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.- Mark Twain

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.- Unknown

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.- T. S. Eliot

Next to life itself, self-responsibility is the most precious possession one can lose, and it matters not how he loses it.- Leonard E. Read

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error.- William Jennings Bryan

The higher the mountains, the more understandable is the glory of Him who made them and who holds them in His hand.- Francis Schaeffer

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.- Horace

We have to keep in mind we are a nation under God, and if we ever forget that, we'll be just a nation under.- Ronald Reagan

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Discontent as a driving force for a society might make that society rich, but it will bankrupt it in the end. As the coffer fills, the soul empties.- Richard A. Swenson, M.D.,

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts... and strives without fear of man to do justice to them.- B. Auerbach

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.- Robert E. Lee

See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.- John Owen

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.- Martin Luther

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.- Unknown

Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!- Anne Frank

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; and third, common sense.- Thomas Edison (1847-1931)

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.- Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986), Syndicated columnist

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.- Stephen Grellet

Many people will walk in and out of your life, But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Each word must be distinct. It is a courtesy to speak so one can be understood; it is an art so to sing.- From Elizabeth Yates' book, With Pipe, Paddle, and Song. P. 99-100

He who will not settle for second best but waits for the best will find it waiting for him! Love must be all or it is nothing.- From Elizabeth Yates' book, With Pipe, Paddle, and Song p. 167

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.- Samuel Coleridge

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if is does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.- William Butler Yeats

I would rather be tied to the soil as another man's serf... than be King of all these the dead and destroyed.- Homer

And here, Queen Aphrodite, pour heavenly nectar into gold cups and fill them gracefully with sudden joy.- Sappho

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.- Pericles

If any man wish to write a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.- Goethe

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.- William E. Channing

Small kindness, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced, give a greater charm to the character than the display of greater talents and accomplishments.- Kelly

Live for something. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.- Chalmers

So here hath been dawning another blue day! Think! Wilt thou let it slip useless away? Out of eternity this new day was born, Into eternity at night will return.- Thomas Carlyle

Lost yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No regard is offered, because they are gone forever.- Horace Mann

One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each. Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach.- A. A. Procter

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.- Basil

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.- Rob Gilbert

May we ask guidance in more surely learning the ancient truth that greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches can never bring lasting happiness or good- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.- The Book of Common Prayer

May it's doors be open to those in need, and it's rooms be filled with kindness. May joy shine from it's windows. And HIS presence never leave it.- Jewish home blessing

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.- James T.Adams

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.- Kingsley

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn. Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1898

Every true work of art praises God apart from the composer’s intentions, because it could not have been written without the gifts which God gave His creation.- A.W.Tozer

Section 3

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.- H. Jackson Brown

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.- Francis de Sales

None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.- Marquerite de Angeli, The Door in the Wall

My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with him and nothing else you can be happy, but without him and with all else you'll never be happy.- Patrick Henry

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not to win, but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.- de Coubertin

Undress, as George Herbert says, your soul at night, not by self-examination, but by shedding, as you do your garments, the daily sins whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.- Sir William Osler

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?- Henry Ford

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.- Confucius

Anyone can become angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.- Aristotle

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.- Moliere

...Real mental health starts with knowing who we are and where we stand in relation to ultimate truth which is God himself. At the core of our being is a coherent self that God addresses, a self that God calls to respond to him.- Charles Colson

The struggle ... between doing what you ought and what you desire is common to all. You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you will enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience. That will be worth everything else.- Robert E. Lee

I say: Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle.- Sun Tzu

Wealth and peace have dimmed our spiritual vision and many of us can no longer even remember, or have never known, the sweet taste of a life lived in the pursuit of self-ordered liberty for its own sake.- Alan Keyes

No one has the right to thrust himself into the affairs of others in order to further their interest, and no one ought, when he has his own interests in view, to pretend that he is acting selflessly only in the interests of others.- Ludwig von Mises

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be quite as intelligent to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.- Horace Mann

Observe with Care

If your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; Of who you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where.

The "I Wills" of Responsibility

I will keep my promises I will not make excuses I will do all my work to the best of my ability I will make things right when I do wrong I will know my duty and do my duty

It's not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements, He demands our obedience. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.- Chuck Colson

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.- Samuel Johnson