Amazing Quotations Page 4

It was really neat to see some radical life changing going on.
--Dave Ramsey Show, Caller, September 7, 2007.

The most subtle of all temptations is the “seeming” success of the wicked. It requires moral courage to see, without flinching, material prosperity coming to men who are dishonest; to see politicians rise into prominence, power and wealth by trickery and corruption; to see virtue in rags and vice in velvets; to see ignorance at a premium, and knowledge at a discount. To the man who is really calm these puzzles of life do not appeal. He is living his life as best he can; he is not worrying about the problems of justice, whose solution must be left to Omniscience to solve.
--William George Jordan, The Majesty of Calmness

Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.
--Jeremy Taylor

Capacity plus knowledge equals cash in your pocket.
--China Sinclair

You can do what is asked of you out of love of duty or out of hate. Choose your motive.
--China Sinclair

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
--Goethe

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
--Miss Mulock

Do not hover always on the surface of things,
nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate
into the depth of matters, as far as your time and
circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate
to your own profession. Do not indulge yourselves
to judge of things by the first glimpse, or a short and
superficial view of them; for this will fill the mind with
errors and prejudices, and give it a wrong turn and ill
habit of thinking, and make much work for retraction.
--Isaac Watts, The Improvement of the Mind.

Amazing Quotations Page 3

The problem is that we're so tuned in to our own radio station so much that sometimes we're totally out of sync with even what those we love want in life.
--Mark Joyner, The Irresistible Offer.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, Introduction: The Custom-House.

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1838.

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and, lastly, the solid cash.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne, Letter to Horatio Bridge, March 15, 1851.

Without leaders an organization would be little more than a group of people whose random individual actions would cancel each other out.
--Francis Hasselbein and Richard Cavanaugh. Be. Know. Do.

The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
--G.D. Boardman

Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
--Goethe

All limits are self imposed.
--Icarus

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
--Alexander the Great

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend
him, than to their perfections which please him.
--Greville, Many Thoughts of Many Minds.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
--Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, Essay on Poetry.

Not thinking about things is what gets people in trouble.
--Dave Ramsey, The Dave Ramsey Show, August 21, 2007.