Provoking Quotes

443 quotes by 302 authors

If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do.… — Henry Mintzberg
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it. — Jonas Salk
If one can't be happy, one must be amused.... — Nancy Mitford
We will not have failure - only success and new learning. — Queen Victoria
Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality. — Robert Fritz
I keep six honest serving men. — Rudyard Kipling
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. — W. Somerset Maugham
You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about. — Werner Erhard
As a man is, so he sees. — William Blake
Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will… — George Orwell
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross. — H. Richard Niebuhr
So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows. — Martin Luther
Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations… — Robert J. Wicks
God made (human beings) because he loves stories. — Elie Wiesel
One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.… — Henri Nouwen
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable… — Lewis Mumford
The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice. — Soren Kierkegaard
To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough… — Robert McAfee Brown

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