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The very act of believing creates strength of its own.
Posted: 12 May 2014 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Speaker: Bernard BaruchPosted: 28 Oct 2013 at 12:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we 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 another.
Speaker: Robert Louis StevensonPosted: 10 Sep 2012 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we 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 another.
Speaker: Robert Louis StevensonPosted: 10 Sep 2012 at 11:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 companion; and so let all young person take their choice.
Speaker: William Makepeace ThackerayPosted: 10 May 2012 at 11:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 companion; and so let all young person take their choice.
Speaker: William Makepeace ThackeraySource: Vanity Fair, Ch.2, pg. 23Posted: 10 May 2012 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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 companion; and so let all young person take their choice.
Speaker: William Makepeace ThackeraySource: Vanity Fair, Ch.2, pg. 23Posted: 10 May 2012 at 10:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: @ptarkkonenPosted: 19 Nov 2011 at 9:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.
Speaker: Lillian HellmanSource: bookPosted: 24 Feb 2012 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God forbid that there should be any of us so unwisely indulgent, so thoughtless and so shallow in our affection for our children that we dare not check them in a wayward course, in wrongdoing and in their foolish love for the things of the world more than for the things of righteousness, for fear of offending them.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Gospel Doctrine, p. 286Posted: 26 Feb 2012 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Speaker: Carl SaganPosted: 28 Aug 2009 at 10:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
Speaker: James RogersPosted: 19 Mar 2012 at 10:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If a person goes through [his] life without experiencing disappointment, [he] will never know how to get up when [he falls] and continue moving forward.
Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 2:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 29 Aug 2011 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One’s financial status should never be equated with one’s worth.
Posted: 09 May 2011 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Speaker: Arthur P. StanleyPosted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is? Surely what pops out before the man has time to put on a disguise is the truth? If there are rats in a cellar you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats: it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me an ill-tempered man; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am. The rats are always there in the cellar, but if you go in shouting and noisily they will have taken cover before you switch on the light.
Speaker: C. S. LewisSource: Mere ChristianityPosted: 22 Jul 2010 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One who chooses to follow Christ chooses to change.
Speaker: Brad WilcoxSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are not called “human-doings,” but “human BEINGS.” It isn’t all the things that we are doing that make the difference; it is what we are becoming through those “doings” that count.
Speaker: Brad WilcoxSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!