Howard Thurman Famous Quotes
"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
Follow the grain in your own wood.
Howard Thurman Quotations
"As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise."
Samuel Johnson
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
Frank H Crane
"The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."
Mignon McLaughlin
"If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Hellen Keller
"First deserve, and then desire."
English Proverb
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
Clement Atlee
"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."
Learned Hand