It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
I dote on his very absence.
God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
I am a father. My son’s name is Max and my daughter’s name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. His journey has been complicated by infantile seizures, sleep apnea, dietary challenges and now, puberty!
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Snoop Dogg eats terrible. That’s another reason I had to leave him. I would have been dead of a heart attack. He literally eats at 7-11. That’s where he does his grocery shopping or it’s Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, or it’s Denny’s delivery. There’s not a piece of salad or vegetable within two miles of this dude.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can’t hit it.
My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
A man’s measure is his will.
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
A classic man is a distinguished man. He cares about taste and his craft. He’s all about the simple model that I live by – eat, drink, be swanky, and have fun getting the job done. He makes sure that he’s excellent in all things and that he cares about his neighborhood immensely.
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference’, you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
