Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

Charles R. Swindoll

At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Denis Diderot

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Charles Spurgeon

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

F. Schumacher

You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Bob Dylan

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

Anne Spencer

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

Bible Bible

And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

P. J. Harvey

Servant is who you are; prophet is what you do.

Janeane Garofalo

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

J. K. Rowling

The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.