Quotation Collection

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. Ravi Zacharias

• marriage

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Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. Ravi Zacharias

• love
• marriage

Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. Ravi Zacharias

• love

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You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. Ravi Zacharias

• greed

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Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit. Ravi Zacharias

• imagination

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. Paul Johnson

• education
• history

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. John Wilkins

• positive thinking
• thought

Commitment separates the doers from the dreamers. Andre Maronian

• dreams
• commitment

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison

• government
• power

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin

• self improvement

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton

• tact
• manners

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke

• results

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person. Scott Sorrell

• self improvement

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is. Ivan Illich

• education

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system. Bertrand Russell

• education

School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only Coke provides relief. And other products, too, of course. John Gatto

• education

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else. H. L. Mencken

• education

If it would be wrong for the government to adopt an official religion, then, for the same reasons, it would be wrong for the government to adopt official education policies. The moral case for freedom of religion stands or falls with that for freedom of education. A society that champions freedom of religion but at the same time countenances state regulation of education has a great deal of explaining to do. James Otteson

• education

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• guts
• character

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. Daniel Webster

• truth

How successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind. Shad Helmstetter

• self esteem
• success
• subconscious

Whatever you put into your mind - in one way or another - is what you will get back out - in one way or another. Shad Helmstetter

• affirmations
• subconscious

If at first you succeed, try something harder. John Maxwell

• effort
• success

There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will. Grenville Kleiser

• initiative

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

• writing
• purpose

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Saint Thomas Aquinas

• friends

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet.) Seth Godin

• practice
• self improvement

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