Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

Dalai Lama

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

Dalai Lama

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

Dick Gregory

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

Desmond Tutu

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

David Wilcock

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Dante Alighieri

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Dan Rather

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Cyril Connolly

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

David Livingstone

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

Coretta Scott King

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

Confucius

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.

Confucius

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

Confucius

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Confucius

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Confucius

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Daniel Webster

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

David Jeremiah

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

David Jeremiah

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

David Jeremiah

When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.

David Jeremiah

If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

David Eddings

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

Anna Quindlen

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

Chuck Smith

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

Alfred de Musset

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Alfred Hitchcock

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Andy Stanley

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

Euripides

He is wise that is wise to himself.

Samuel Richardson

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Meryl Streep

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Robert Burns

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.