It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- The Buddha
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.
It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot,
we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
As a nation of freemen, we must live
through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Think for yourself and question authority.
- Timothy Leary
The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
To say that authority, whether secular or religious,
supplies no ground for morality
is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison
Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority
eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority
is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough
to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment
comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command
and find that they control their own time,
when they learn their own voice and authority.
- Theodore H. White
Many of us have been conditioned to trust others' opinions
more than our own, and I believe that sort of trust is excessive.
This is especially true with regard to authority figures -
doctors, lawyers, priests. I trust my doctor's intentions toward me,
but I don't blindly follow his suggestions
without checking other sources also.
He was trained to prescribe a pill for everything,
and does it with the best of intentions,
but I often choose to trust God's quiet voice inside me
rather than my doctor's medical advice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge,
never fearing to follow truth and reason
to whatever results they led,
and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
- Thomas Jefferson
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
Today is the bridge between acceptance and faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who knows history, particularly
the history of Europe, will, I think,
recognize that the domination
of education or of government
by any one particular religious faith
is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You must not lose faith in humanity.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Can you imagine a life with no fear?
What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- Max Lucado
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear.
- Jewel
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid
for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Anchoring in soft mud is dangerous.
Anchor thyself to the rocks of Faith, Compassion, and Service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is wonderful to have Faith,
but don't confuse trust with being gullible.
Balance trust with conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those of true faith don't require guaranteed security.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is the article of faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.
- Adrian Rogers
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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