This page is dedicated to some of the greatest
sayings (in my opinion, anyway) that have
been said by both religious and contemporary
figures. Enjoy...
There are quite a few of them, at the moment. Maybe some day I'll get around to making seperate pages of them!
"Don't take life too seriously...You'll never get out alive!"
-- Elbert Hubbard --
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life...IT GOES ON."
-- Robert Frost --
"To save face, keep lower half closed."
-- Confucious --
"Knowledge is not enough, you must apply. Willing is not enough, you must do."
-- Bruce Lee --
"What a man does, that he is. In himself is his might."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --
"There is a close connection between getting up in the world, and getting up in the morning." (I've got a problem with this one!)
-- Anonymous --
"It is throwing your life away to think of the wrong things."
-- Hugh Nibley --
"A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge."
-- Joseph Smith --
"If you love the truth, you can remember it."
-- Brigham Young --
"We carry within us the wonders we seek without us."
-- Sir Thomas Browne --
"We want inner peace, but we will not look within."
-- Matthew Arnold --
"The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness."
-- Montaigne --
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-- Aristotle --
"You can't have everything - Where would you put it?"
-- Steven Wright --
"Some things should never be done,
Some lines should never be crossed,
Some vows should never be broken,
Some words should never be spoken,
Some thoughts should never be entertained.
Membership in the Church requires that we measure up to cerain standards. It isn't easy. It demands much of us."
-- James E. Faust --
"Noah came before the flood...I have come, before the fire."
-- Joseph Smith --
"Pray as if everything depended on the Lord, and act as if everything depended on you."
-- Francis Cardinal Spellman --
"Knowledge comes through personal effort. It's acquisition involves labor."
-- David O. McKay --
"Physical strength is measured by what one can carry; Spiritual, by what one can bear."
-- Quoted by Spencer W. Kimball --
"He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."
-- Nietzsche --
"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed."
-- Emerson --
"Prayer keeps a man from sin, and sin keeps a man from prayer."
-- Brigham Young --
"Life is not so short but there is always time for courtesy."
-- Thomas S. Monson --
"Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so!"
-- Lord Chesterfield --
"Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved."
-- Spencer W. Kimball --
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Elliot --
"If you ever need a helping hand, look at the end of your arm."
-- Bryan B. Gardner --
"What E'er thou art, act well thy part."
-- William Shakespeare --
"I shall not ask the Lord to do what I am not willing to do."
-- Brigham Young --
"The only people you should try to get even with are the ones who've helped you out."
-- Anonymous --
"It is one thing to be tempted and another thing to fall."
-- William Shakespeare --
"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it."
-- Emerson --
"He who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt."
-- Anonymous --
"A grateful heart is a beginning to greatness."
-- James E. Faust --
"Make friendship a habit and you will always have friends."
-- Jacob M. Braude --
"The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to try to like what one has to do."
-- Dinah Muloch Craik --
"The Kingdom of God, or nothing!"
-- John Taylor --
"There are two kinds of people in the world; Those you love, and those you don't know yet."
-- Anonymous --
"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."
-- Philippians 4:11 --
"Paddle your own canoe, even if your dad owns a ship."
--Quoted by James M. Braude --
"Show me a man who doesn't know that meaning of the word 'fail' and I'll show you a man who out to buy a dictionary."
-- Albert Einstein --
"Adam fell, but he got right back up."
-- Anonymous --
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
-- Elbert Hubbard --
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts: To believe in heroes makes heroes."
-- Benjamin Disraeli --
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost: That is where they should be. Now go, and put foundations under them."
-- Henry David Thoreau --
"Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do."
-- Christopher Morley --
"Smile well and often. It makes people wonder what you're up to."
-- Sachel Paige --
"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why Not?'"
-- George Bernard Shaw --
"Worry a little bit and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can, but train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
-- Ole Helgerson --
"Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do."
-- Jesus Christ (Luke 12:4) --
"The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps."
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst --
"I made this my rule: When the Lord commands - DO IT."
-- Joseph Smith --
"If we don't change direction, we will arrive at where we are going."
-- Richard L. Evans --
"A real friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out"
-- Walter Winchell --
"These are times that try men's souls. Tyranny, like hell, is difficult to conquer. Our only consolation is that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
-- Thomas Payne --
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-- Abraham Lincoln --
"I have never met a man (or woman) who is not my superior in at least one way."
-- Henry David Thoreau --
"Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them."
-- Elisha (2 Kings 6:16) --
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