Category: Weekly Quote

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it’s time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit. —Charles R. Swindoll

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. —Bob Riley

To be thrown upon one’s resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible. —Benjamin Franklin

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. —Marcus Aurelius

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. —George Bernard Shaw

Great discoveries and improvement invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. —Alexander Graham Bell

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. —Thomas Edison

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. —Baltasar Gracián

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. —Theodore Isaac Rubin

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. —Carl Sandburg

Knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won’t be a habit in my life. —Stephen R. Covey

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. —Ronald Reagan

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. —Celia Thaxter

I don’t believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. —Maya Angelou

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. —Mike Fitzpatrick

Care enough for a result, and you will almost certainly attain it. —William James

No person has ever been honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. —Calvin Coolidge

A good laugh is sunshine in a house. —William Makepeace Thackeray

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. —Ralph W. Sockman

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. —Jessica Lange