A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them. — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love,… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student,… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling… — Isobel Miller Kuhn Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
