Errand Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
— Roger Caras
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
— Woodrow Wilson
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura…
— William S. Burroughs
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It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
— M. Russell Ballard
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Diets are a fool’s errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it’s chocolate or a cookie. If I don’t, I guarantee you that there’s…
— Evangeline Lilly
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When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.
— Thomas S. Monson
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Now, some of you may be shy by nature, perhaps feeling yourselves inadequate to respond affirmatively to a calling. Remember that this work is not…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The Lord will always prepare a way for you to escape from the trials you will be given if you understand two things. One is…
— Henry B. Eyring
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No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those…
— James Russell Lowell
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
— Jock Sturges
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
— Ezra Stiles
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Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
— Thomas Beecham
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Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
— Matt Chandler
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
— Olivier Sarkozy
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There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but…
— Brandon Boyd
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
— Yunus Emre
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I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the…
— Lysander Spooner
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Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market…
— Bill Ackman
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Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
— Charles Lamb
Who Wrote These Errand Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Errand Quotes, led by these top contributors: