Posts Tagged ‘Quotations’

Famous Quotes on Life

Friday, May 21st, 2010
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
  • God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor
  • I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs
  • I think I’ve discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles M. Schulz
  • It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. - Elisabeth Kubler
  • Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem
  • Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. - Tom Head
  • In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
  • The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. - Norman Cousins
  • Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. - Anthony J. D’Angelo

Famous Quotes on Faith

Thursday, May 20th, 2010
  • All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. -  Martin Luther
  • Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God. - Edwin Louis Cole
  • “Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” - Gail Devers
  • “’Faith’ means not wanting to know what is true” - Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “When you have come to the edge Of all light that you know And are about to drop off into the darkness Of the unknown, Faith is knowing One of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or You will be taught to fly” - Patrick Overton
  • “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” - Mary Manin Morrissey
  • “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” - Kahlil Gibran
  • “Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” - Oswald Chambers

Famous Quotes on Peace

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
  • A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. - William Shakespeare
  • A people free to choose will always choose peace. - Ronald Reagan
  • It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. - John F. Kennedy
  • Peace begins with a smile. - Mother Teresa
  • “The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it”. - George Orwell
  • “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” - Abraham Lincoln
  • In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.  - Mahatma Gandhi
  • “We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” - William Gladstone
  • If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.  - Napoleon I
  • In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. -  Herodotus