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Quotes About Humility

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Humility

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

~Adlai Stevenson

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move On. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

~ Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

~Oliver Herford

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.

~William Hazlitt

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

~William Safire

A great man is always willing to be little.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.

~David Packard

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

~Welsh Proverb

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

~ Criss Jami

The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can’t live without him is even more deluded.

~Hasidic Saying

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”

~C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

~ Abraham Lincoln

A true genius admits that he or she knows nothing.

~ Albert Einstein

People that put themselves above others will fall longer and harder.

~Gina Lindley

It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

~Benjamin Whichcote

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

~ Lao Tzu

Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits.

~Jewish Proverb

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

~ Winston S. Churchill

When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.

~Mary H. Waldrip

Life is a long lesson in humility.

~ J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

Blushing is the color of virtue.

~Diogenes

Every person that you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them.

~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

~Rabindranath Tagore

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

~ Martin Luther

When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

~Bernard Baily

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

~ C. JoyBell C.

Humble is such a lonely word.

~Kak Sri

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

~ Andrew Murray

It is always the secure who are humble.

~G.K. Chesterton

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

~ Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years

Don’t talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

~Wilson Mizner

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

~ Madeleine L’Engle

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

~Winston Churchill

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

~ David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

~Ted Turner

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

~ Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth

Quotes About Self Control

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Self Control

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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

~Antonio Porchia, Voces

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The best fighter is never angry.

~ Lao Tzu

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

~Benjamin Franklin

I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

~Thomas Jefferson

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

~Mark Twain

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

~ Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses.

~Franklin P. Jones

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

~ Gustave Flaubert

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.

~Tom Wilson

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.

~ Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.

~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Who is fit to govern others?
He who governs himself.
You might as well have said: nobody.

~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

~ Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

~Korman’s Law

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.

~J. Petit-Senn

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

~ Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

~Vida D. Scudder

If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world

~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

~Martin H. Fischer

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

~ Lao Tzu

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength.

~François VI de la Rochefoucault

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

~ Robert E. Lee

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

~Pietro Aretino

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

~ Elie Wiesel

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

~Mick Jagger

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

~Oscar Wilde

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

~ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.

~Franklin P. Jones

I tell you what when I see chocolate chip cookies I can’t just eat one. I’ve got to eat a dozen. I don’t have any self control. Well, come on! You’re just talking yourself right into the pit! You do have self control, and you need to start looking at those cookies and saying, “If I want you I’ll eat you, and if I don’t I won’t!” Come on! Talk to that plateful of food! I am born again and baptized in the Holy Ghost! I have the power of the universe on the inside of me, and if I do not want to eat you I will not eat you! I mean how do you expect to defeat the devil if you can’t even defeat a chocolate chip cookie?

~ Joyce Meyer

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

~Carrie Latet

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion…

~W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Rumi Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings From Rumi

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.

~Rumi

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”

~Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~Rumi

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

~Rumi

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

~ Rumi

What you seek is seeking you.

~ Rumi

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

~Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.

~ Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~ Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

~Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

~ Rumi

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

~Rumi

Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.

~ Rumi

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

~ Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment…

~Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

~ Rumi

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

~Rumi

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

~ Rumi

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do.

~Rumi

Knock, And He’ll open the door
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.

~ Rumi

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

~Rumi

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

~ Rumi

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

~Rumi

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

~ Rumi

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

~Rumi

Silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.

~ Rumi

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

~Rumi

In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

~ Rumi

Ignorance is God’s prison. Knowing is God’s palace.

~Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

~ Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

~ Rumi

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light.

~Rumi

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

~ Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

~Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

~ Rumi

And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

~Rumi

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

~ Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?

~ Rumi

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

~Rumi

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

~Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

~ Rumi

Quotes About Winter

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Winter

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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter…. In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

~John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers

Winter is coming.

~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…. [F]our dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

~Pietro Aretino

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.

~Lewis Carroll

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…. No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

~John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

~Edith Sitwell

Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth.

~Hugh Macmillan

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

~John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

~John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine

Nothing burns like the cold.

~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

~Ruth Stout

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

~Yoko Ono

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

~John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

~George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

~Andrew Wyeth

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.

~Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

~Henry David Thoreau

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.

~Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

~W.J. Vogel

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

~Gustave Flaubert

Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.

~Montenegrin Proverb

She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
“Winter is dead.”

~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

In seed-time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

~William Blake

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

~Carl Reiner

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

~Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

One kind word can warm three winter months.

~Japanese Proverb

Of winter’s lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer’s secret
Deep down within its heart.

~Charles G. Stater

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

~George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.”

~Robert Byrne

The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.

~Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.

~Bill Morgan, Jr.

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.

~Sinclair Lewis

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

~Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.
For the wind howls loud, and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I’ll toast your bright eyes, my sweetheart fair.

~Minna Thomas Antrim, A Night Cap

Quotes About Adversity

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Adversity

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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

~M. Kathleen Casey

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

~Winston Churchill

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

~ Haruki Murakami

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

~William Shakespeare, Othello

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

~Mother Teresa

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

~ Maya Angelou

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

~Harry Golden

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are the times that try men’s souls.

~ Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far.

~Uncle Remus

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

~Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way.

~ Terry Goodkind

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he’s got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

~Rona Barrett

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

~Garth Brooks

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you’d get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you’ll never really enjoy it when things go right.

~ Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

~Garrison Keillor

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.

~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

~Erich Fromm

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

~Jewish Proverb

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

~ Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

~Rose F. Kennedy

I love those who can smile in trouble…

~ Leonardo da Vinci

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

~Henry Ward Beecher

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

~ Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

~Oprah Winfrey

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.

~Frank A. Clark

Hardships make or break people.

~ Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.

~Orson Scott Card

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

~ Criss Jami, Killosophy

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

~Kenji Miyazawa

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

Bad is never good until worse happens.

~Danish Proverb

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

~ Seneca

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

~Walt Disney

Reputation is what others think of us; character is what God knows of us. When you have spent what feels like eternity trying to repair a few moments of time that destroyed the view others once had of you then you must ask yourself if you have the problem or is it really them? God doesn’t make us try so hard, only enemies do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

~Barbara Bloom

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.

~ Og Mandino

There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

~Lou Reed, Magic and Loss

When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose.

~ Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

~Charles C. West

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

~ Helen Keller

If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

~Mary Engelbreit

To live is to war with trolls.

~ Henrik Ibsen

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

~Theodore Rubin

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

~Shannon L. Alder

Every path hath a puddle.

~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.

~Lee Drake

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

~ Christina Aguilera

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

~Agatha Christie

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It’s growing out of sour earth. And it’s strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.

~ Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

~Robert Brault

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.

~ Thomas S. Monson, Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often those that criticize others reveal what he himself lacks.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

~Colette

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

~ Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.

~Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Flower, Fruit, and Thorn

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

~ Aristotle

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

~African Proverb

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor

There is no education like adversity.

~Disraeli

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It’s a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment.

~ Zack W. Van

We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t.

~Frank A. Clark

Patriotic Quotes

Awesome Patriotic Quotes and Sayings

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

~ Samuel Adams

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

~ John Hancock

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

~ John Adams

It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

~ Samuel Adams

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~ George Washington

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

~ Joseph Warren

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

~ Samuel Adams

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

~ George Washington

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

~ John Adams

I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed by wisdom, and sanctified by the solemn choice of the people who are to live under it. May the Supreme ruler of the world be pleased to establish and perpetuate these new foundations of liberty and glory….Thank God, my country is saved and by the smile of Heaven I am a free and independent man.

~ John Hancock

May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

~ Joseph Warren

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

~ George Washington

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

― John Adams

No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

~ Samuel Adams

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit — appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.

~ Joseph Warren

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

~ John Adams

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

~ Samuel Adams

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

~ George Washington

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.

~ Joseph Warren

It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, ‘whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,’ and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

~ John Adams

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

~ John Hancock

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know…Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.

~ John Adams

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

~ Joseph Warren

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

~ Samuel Adams

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

~ George Washington

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

~ John Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

~ Samuel Adams

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

~ George Washington

And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.

~ Joseph Warren

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

~ John Adams

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

~ Samuel Adams

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

~ John Adams

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

~ George Washington

If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

~ Samuel Adams

When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The happiness of society is the end of government.

~ John Adams

Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.

~ Samuel Adams

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

~ George Washington

Security without liberty is called prison.

~ Benjamin Franklin

The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty….The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

~ Samuel Adams

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge…

~ John Adams

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

~ Samuel Adams

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction – to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

~ George Washington

[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are life, liberty, and property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up an essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right of freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

~ Samuel Adams

Quote For The Day

Awesome Quotes and Sayings On The Quote For The Day

Quotations & Citations:

Well done is better than well said.

~Benjamin Franklin

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

~Dutch Proverb

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

~Francis Bacon

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

~Thomas Carlyle

Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out.

~Italian Proverb

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

~Joan Didion

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

~George-Louis de Buffon

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

~Charles Wagner

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.

~Baltasar Gracián

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

~Marcus Aurelius

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

~John Quincy Adams

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

~Confucius

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

~Sydney J. Harris

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

~Michel de Montaigne

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

~Arnold Glasow

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

~William J.H. Boetcker

Have patience, my friend, have patience;
For Rome wasn’t built in a day!
You wear yourself out for nothing
In many and many a way!
Why are you nervous and fretty
When things do not move along fast;
Why let yourself get excited
Over things that will soon be past?

~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

~J.B. Priestley

Quotes About Living Your Life

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Living Your Life

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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

~Robert Nathan

I have memories — but only a fool stores his past in the future.

~David Gerrold

It’s but little good you’ll do a-watering the last year’s crop.

~George Eliot

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

~Cherokee Indian Proverb

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

~L. Thomas Holdcroft

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

~Brendan Francis

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

~Alexander Graham Bell

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Today is the greatest
Day I’ve ever known
Can’t live for tomorrow,
Tomorrow’s much too long….

~Billy Corgan, (Today) Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins)

The living moment is everything.

~D.H. Lawrence

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

~Thích Nhat Hanh

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~Buddha

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

~Montaigne

Forever — is composed of Nows—
‘Tis not a different time…
Let Months dissolve in further Months—
And Years — exhale in Years…

~Emily Dickinson

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow’s flowers grow.

~Margaret Lindsey

Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead past bury its dead!
Act, — act in the living Present!
Heart within and God o’erhead.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bottle of wine
Still to be drunk,
A bundle of thoughts
Still to be thunk.

~Robert Brault

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

~Abraham Maslow

The future is no place to place your better days.

~Dave Matthews

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

~Dale Carnegie

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

~Abraham Lincoln

Quotes About Courage

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Courage

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

~Robert Cody

I believe that courage is the sum of strength and wisdom. You take away wisdom from the equation – courage may turn to rage.

~Dodinsky

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

~Mignon McLaughlin

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

~H.G. Bohn

Courage is a kind of salvation.

~Plato

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

~Arthur Koestler

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

~Albert Camus

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

~Horace Smith

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

~John Wayne

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

~Nicholas Murray Butler

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

~Plato

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

~George Smith Patton

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

~Charles Kennedy

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

~Lucille Ball

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

~Henry S. Haskins

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

~Aesop

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little.

~Tori Amos

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

~Raymond Lindquist

One man with courage makes a majority.

~Andrew Jackson

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

~Thomas Fuller

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

~Ambrose Bierce

Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.

~Franklin P. Jones

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

~Marvin Kitman

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.

~Mary Anne Radmacher

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes About Cats

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Cats and Kittens

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There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.

~Tay Hohoff

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

~Cynthia E. Varnado

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.

~Nan Porter

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

~Mark Twain

The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

~Doug Larson

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

~Paula Poundstone

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

~Pam Brown

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.

~J.A. McIntosh

It doesn’t do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don’t respect you for it.

~Susan Howatch

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.

~Jean Burden

One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it’s affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular.

~Helen Thomson

There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten.

~Jules Champfleury

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~Edgar Allan Poe

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

~Jules Reynard

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

~Italo Calvino

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

~Lemony Snicket

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

~Terry Pratchett

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

~Charles Dickens

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.

~T.S. Eliot

People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.

~Faith Resnick

Kittens are angels with whiskers.

~Alexis Flora Hope

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

~Jenny de Vries

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

~Author Unknown

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

~Hippolyte Taine