quotes

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A list of selected quotes from a book entitled "Wise Words and Quotes" by Vern McLellan.

No matter what your lot in life, build something on it.
Author Unknown

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Why are you crying out to me? Tell the people to get moving"
EXODUS 14:15

Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power.
Author Unknown

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederisk Wilcox

Sign on a pastor's desk: "It's too late to agree with me, I've already changed my mind!"
Author Unknown

The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
William J. Johnson

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James R. Lowell

The bamboo which bends is stronger than the oak which resists.
Japanese Proverb.

It's easy enough to be pleasent
When everything goes like a song;
But the man worthwhile
Is the man who can smile
When everything's going dead wrong.
Author Unknown

Anger is just one letter short of danger.
Author Unknown

He who has a sharp tongue soon cuts his own throat.
Author Unknown

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Horace

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
Coach John Wooden

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar Bradley

Bravery is falling but not yielding.
Latin Proverb

So you've got a problem? That's good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder to success. With each victory you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a bigger, better, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.
Clement Stone.

No one learns to make right decisions without being free to make wrong ones.
Author Unknown

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

The power of choice must involve the possibility of error - that is the essence of choosing.
Herbert L. Samuel

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore

If you're not big enough to stand criticism, you're too small to be praised.
Author Unknown.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-pulling, but guiding,instructive, inspirational -- a south wind and not an east wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream.
Author Unknown.

It is far better to forgive and forget than to hate and remember.
Author Unknown

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them quite so much.
Author Unknown

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin.

What you are is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your gift to God.
Author Unknown.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up to it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin.

Don't forget that people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
Author Unknown

Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
Author Unknown

The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost

Men fight for freedom and then start making laws to get rid of it.
Author Unknown

Truth is stubborn. It doesn't apologize to anyone.
Author Unknown

Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.
Author Unknown.

Love is a fabric that never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the waters of adversity and grief.
Author Unknown.

The trouble with letting people know where you stand is that you become a stationary target.
Marlys Huffman

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regrefully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

If you are patient in one amount of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese Proverb

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.
Thomas Edison

Because you have occasional low spells of despondency, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night but it rises again all right the next morning.
Henry Van Dyke

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olson

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
Author Unknown

It is better to be silent and be considered a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

The man who wasts today lamenting yesterday will waste tomorrow lamenting today.
Philip Baskin

Always keep your words soft and sweet. One day you may have to eat them.
Author Unknown.

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I've learned that we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
Author Unknown

I've learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
Author Unknown

I've learned that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
Author Unknown

I've learned that it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
Author Unknown

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
Author Unknown

I've learned that you can keep going long after you can't.
Author Unknown

I've learned that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down, will be the ones to help you get back up.
Author Unknown

I've learned that it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.
Author Unknown

I've learned that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Author Unknown

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
Author Unknown

I've learned that your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
Author Unknown

I've learned that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you; you will find the strength to help.
Author Unknown

I've learned that the people you care about most in life are sometimes taken from you too soon
Author Unknown

"End, begin, all the same. Big change. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
--Aughra in The Dark Crystal

"But you do, you have magic. Maybe you can't find it, but it's there! You have all the power you need, if you dare to look for it."
--Molly Grue in The Last Unicorn

"Good would be totally impotent, without the contrast of evil"
- Carolinus (Flight of Dragons)

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"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."
Samuel Vimes "Men at Arms"

"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."
Lana Turner

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."
Kvothe "The Name of the Wind"

"I'm Sure you're not threatening the younglings. Because you really don't want to see me angry. And I think you're smart enough to know that. But if you want to try me, go ahead and make that threat.
Luke Skywalker "Legacy Of The Force: Inferno"

"You might call them soft, because they're very reluctant to kill, and they might agree with you, but they're soft the way the ocean is soft, and, well; ask any sea captain how harmless and puny the ocean can be."
Zakalwe "The Culture"

"...and the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them's a mongoose."
Witches Abroad on Magrat Garlic

"When Kind men grow angry, things are about to change."
Harry Dresden "Blood Rites"

"Always, I try to be reasonable, to be fair. I try to talk to people. And no one ever takes it as anything other than weakness. You listen to me try to be civilized and you think, 'Oh, he's nothing. Him, we can 'ignore. Him, we can push around. We can do whatever we want — he won't stop us!' Because nobody ever takes me seriously — unless I shout and threaten like a cut-rate stage villain."

"Well, you know what? I can do crazy. I really can. And it looks like I'm going to have to. Agatha is in danger. This whole town is in danger. If I'm going to be able to help her at all, it looks like I'm going to have to give up all this "being reasonable" garbage — and show you idiots what kind of a madboy you're really dealing with!"
Gilgamesh Wulfenbach while beating up a supersoldier despite serious injuries "Girl Genius"

The Hellish Handbook is a very short thing, as very few demons have the patience or the actual caring to write down rules for others to follow. As such, it has two orders, scrawled on a piece of paper that is tacked outside Lucifer's office:

1. Don't defy me. I'm not sure what punishment could be worse than what you're already going through Down Here, but I'm more than willing to find out.

And

2. LEAVE THE NICE ONES ALONE. Seriously. It's for your own good. (See? And you guys think I don't care. Okay, I don't, but I don't want you dying all over the place. It gets old.)

There are two very good reasons for the second rule. The first is that really nice people tend to have a "But I will destroy you should you push me too far" clause attached that makes messing with them a bad idea.

Aziraphale is an example of this. However, Raphael is not — he has become such a really nice person that he has gone beyond the clause.

The second reason is that really nice people tend to have really good friends.
Manchester Lost

"Because if someone gets angry all the time, it's really no big deal. But when someone usually doesn't gets angry, it's scary."
Takashi Kamiyama "Cromartie High School."

"Your kind always underestimates ours. You mistake good manners for timidity. You mistake self-control for passivity. So self controlled are we that we that sometimes we won't retaliate if you harm use. But if you -any of you- harm our loved ones, we will come at you like fanged, slavering beasts from the darkest of LSD nightmares. Believe it."
Rik Oberf to Keith Feddyg "Fans"

Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war.
Friendship dies and true love lies,
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war.
Proverb (quoted by River Song) Doctor Who "A good man goes to war"

"The important thing about this ideal is the double demand it makes on human nature. The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped off limbs; he is also a demure, almost maiden-like, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the Nth and meek to the Nth..."
C.S. Lewis "The necessity of Chivalry"

"His wrath is slow to waken, but terrible to behold."
The magic Mirror on Buffkin "Fables"

Who could be a better hunter then one who had been prey? Someone who would be driven to fight back against the dark forces sent by the world, who would never stop, even though they were bigger and more and perhaps even stronger than he was. Because once having been prey, he would never allow himself to become such again. Would never surrender. Would take death before submission.
Spider Totem to Spider-Man "The Book of Ezekiel"