Quotes
"You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him."
- Confucius
"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."
- Robert Cushing
"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
- Anonymous
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
- Japanese proverb
"Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
- Henry Brooks Adams
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie
"The world is good-natured to people who are good natured."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
"If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains."
- Cicero
"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
- Pope John Paul II
"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
- Pope John Paul II
"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Dr. Martin Luther King
"If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for."
- Mother Teresa
"There are some things you have to understand before you can accept them. But there are others you have to accept before you can understand them."
- J. Budziszewski
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
- Terry Pratchett
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell
"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Plato
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop."
- Ovid
"I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... we feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that [God] might feel..."
- G.K. Chesterton