Browsing Quotes With Tag: choice (72)
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You can’t please God without upsetting Satan.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Someday, when you know who you really are, you will be sorry that you didn’t use your time better.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Please spare me your speeches about ‘that’s just the way I am.’ I’ve heard that from too many people who wanted to sin and call it psychology.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People will come to know the truth to the degree that they are true to the truth.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way we live, particularly under strain and threat, is our clearest testimony. Over time it reflects what we really believe. If it is in harmony with what we say we believe, the Lord will use us and bear testimony though us in some way to every person we meet.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to change the world is to change your head, that is, your thinking, your perceptions.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Knowing the power of Necessity is irresistible.” Prometheus
Speaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If I were to read, much less to answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won’t matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence; and it makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
Speaker: William BulithoPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Much of what we call evil… can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every ailment under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.Speaker: Mother GoosePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience has proved to me, time after time, the enormous value of arriving at a decision. It is the failure to arrive at a fixed purpose, the inability to stop going round and round in maddening circles, that drives men to nervous breakdowns and living hells. I find that fifty percent of my worries vanishes once I arrive at a clear, definite decision; and another forty percent usually vanishes once I start to carry out that decision.
Speaker: Galen LitchfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor… if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We already know enough to lead perfect lives. We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!