God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we’re all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
I made ‘LS4TS2’ for women, my Day 1’s, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.
As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
The world is starving for new ideas and great leaders who will champion those ideas.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store – if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.
I’m one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Prince got some Marvin Gaye and Jimi Hendrix and Sly in him, also, even Little Richard. He’s a mixture of all those guys and Duke Ellington.
Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
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.
I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I’ve seen it all work.
I’m not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I’m not looking for the secret to life… I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‘Boy, those were great old days.’ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
