Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Dennis Rodman

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Demosthenes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

Democritus

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Elbert Hubbard

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Chuck Grassley

More of his unreserved honesty is needed inside the beltway,

Charles Peguy

The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.

Charles Peguy

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

Charles Peguy

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Dennis Prager

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Debra Messing

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

Burton Kaplan

I did it, in all honesty, because I thought I was going to be made a scapegoat in this case.

Ben Jonson

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Ed McMahon

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.

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.