RGB’s Favorite Quotes:
"It is magnificent to grow old if one keeps young. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
"Prayer is our nation's most underutilized natural resource."- Neville Billy, National Day of Prayer, May 2, 2013
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." – Lewis Carroll
“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” – Lewis Carroll
"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible." – Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. - Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. - Leonardo da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. - Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. - Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. - Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. - Leonardo da Vinci
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" – Albert Einstein
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." – Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments With Truth"
“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” ― Billy Graham
“I've read the last page of the Bible; it's all going to turn out all right.” ― Billy Graham
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.” ― Billy Graham
“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” ― Billy Graham
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.” ― Billy Graham
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.” ― Billy Graham
“God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.” ― Billy Graham
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ― Billy Graham
“"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.” ― Billy Graham
“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.” ― Billy Graham
“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.” ― Billy Graham
“Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.” ― Billy Graham
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.”
― Billy Graham
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.” ― Billy Graham “He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths.” ― Billy Graham
“The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.” ― Billy Graham
“Reading God’s Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.” ― Billy Graham “Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever.” ― Billy Graham
“Heaven gives us hope—hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we’re facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven.” ― Billy Graham
“Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!” ― Billy Graham
“The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.” ― Billy Graham
“Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater—the love of God.”
― Billy Graham
"It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." -- Diane Grant
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." – Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson
"When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty" - attributed to Thomas Jefferson and others
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." – Bill Keane
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." – C.S. Lewis
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." – C.S. Lewis
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." – Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." – Malcolm X
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The heart has its reasons which the reason does not know.” – mathematician Blaise Pascal
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” — George S. Patton
"Everything you can imagine is real." – Pablo Picasso
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
"Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been." – Edgar Allan Poe
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt
"It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities." – J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." – Charles M. Schulz
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." – Dr. Seuss
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." – Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
"The purpose of life is to serve, and show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings." -- Albert Schweitzer
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
– William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." – William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well"
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." – Mother Teresa
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!” – Henry David Thoreau
”If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
“But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." – Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." – Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." – Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." – Mark Twain
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." – Mark Twain
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." – Mark Twain
"It is magnificent to grow old if one keeps young. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
"Prayer is our nation's most underutilized natural resource."- Neville Billy, National Day of Prayer, May 2, 2013
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906–1945
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." – Lewis Carroll
“I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” – Lewis Carroll
"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible." – Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo da Vinci
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. - Leonardo da Vinci
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. - Leonardo da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. - Leonardo da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. - Leonardo da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. - Leonardo da Vinci
Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. - Leonardo da Vinci
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. - Leonardo da Vinci
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. - Leonardo da Vinci
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. - Leonardo da Vinci
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" – Albert Einstein
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." – Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." – Albert Einstein
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi, "The Story of My Experiments With Truth"
“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.” ― Billy Graham
“I've read the last page of the Bible; it's all going to turn out all right.” ― Billy Graham
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.” ― Billy Graham
“Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” ― Billy Graham
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.” ― Billy Graham
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.” ― Billy Graham
“God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.” ― Billy Graham
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” ― Billy Graham
“"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.” ― Billy Graham
“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.” ― Billy Graham
“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.” ― Billy Graham
“Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.” ― Billy Graham
“God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.”
― Billy Graham
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.” ― Billy Graham “He lives in the hearts of those who trust in Him. Our confidence in life after death comes from these very truths.” ― Billy Graham
“The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.” ― Billy Graham
“Reading God’s Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.” ― Billy Graham “Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever.” ― Billy Graham
“Heaven gives us hope—hope for today and hope for the future. No matter what we’re facing, we know it is only temporary, and ahead of us is Heaven.” ― Billy Graham
“Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!” ― Billy Graham
“The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.” ― Billy Graham
“Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater—the love of God.”
― Billy Graham
"It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." -- Diane Grant
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." – Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. -- Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -- Thomas Jefferson
"When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty" - attributed to Thomas Jefferson and others
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." – Bill Keane
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." – C.S. Lewis
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." – C.S. Lewis
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." – Abraham Lincoln
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." – Malcolm X
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The heart has its reasons which the reason does not know.” – mathematician Blaise Pascal
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.” — George S. Patton
"Everything you can imagine is real." – Pablo Picasso
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Plato
"Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been." – Edgar Allan Poe
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." – Theodore Roosevelt
"It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities." – J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." – Charles M. Schulz
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." – Dr. Seuss
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." – Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"
"The purpose of life is to serve, and show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings." -- Albert Schweitzer
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
– William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." – William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well"
"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." – Mother Teresa
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify!” – Henry David Thoreau
”If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau
“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” – Henry David Thoreau
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau
“But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." – Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.” -- Henry David Thoreau
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” – Henry David Thoreau
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." – Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." – Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." – Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." – Mark Twain
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." – Mark Twain
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." – Mark Twain