Sin Quotes - Page 13

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it's a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won't be blinded.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.