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Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Γνῶθι σεαυτόν
Speaker: SocratePosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 8:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
La gloire ou le mérite de certains hommes est de bien écrire ; et de quelques autres, c’est de n'écrire point.
Speaker: Jean de la BruyèrePosted: 13 Feb 2009 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
Speaker: Sir Walter ScottPosted: 23 Jan 2009 at 2:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every choice counts. Every choice contributes to determining what we ultimately love.
Speaker: Gilbert MylanderSource: First ThingsPosted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.
Speaker: Ralph CharellSource: CareerOnePosted: 12 Oct 2008 at 6:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me [an]… unreasonable thing, to suppose that there should be a God… that has so much concern [for us]… and yet that He should never speak,… that there should be no word [from Him].
Speaker: Jonathan EdwardsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool
Speaker: Richard P. FeynmanSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You’re seeing someone else, aren’t you?” I denied it of course. But then, anything – smashing up a new car, persuading Donald Rumsfeld to come to an Islington flat in the early hours of New Year’s Day – is easier than actually telling the truth. That look you get, the look which lets you see right through the eyes and down into the place where she keeps all the hurt and the rage and the loathing… Who wouldn’t go that extra yard to avoid it?
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Satan need not get everyone to be like Cain or Judas . . . He needs only to get able men . . . to see themselves as sophisticated neutrals.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: Deposition of a Disciple (1976), 88Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
prunes = stool oil
Speaker: TedSource: Skype re: (drum) stool needing oil from conversationPosted: 03 Jan 2013 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Give him the benefit of the Blake
Speaker: JohnSource: in reference to Blake not saying good bye, maybe he said at exactly same time as someone elsePosted: 04 Jan 2013 at 8:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We must remember that [our investigators] were among the noble and great ones who once overcame Satan by the power of their testimony of Christ.
…A missionary’s testimony invokes a great legacy of testimonies, dating back to the Grand Councils in Heaven.Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Speaker: Francis of AssisiPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We judge a missionary’s success by the attributes of Christ that reflect on that missionary’s grandchildren.
Speaker: James G. AndrusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was duty.
I acted, and behold –
Duty was joy.Speaker: TagorePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am a part of all that I have met.
Speaker: TennysonSource: UlyssesPosted: 12 Oct 2012 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!