Quotes by Authors - Page 184

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences your own bright ideas and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
Therese of Lisieux
God is universal confined to no spot defined by no dogma appropriated by no sect.
Mary Baker Eddy
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
Christina Baldwin
Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.
Mary Parker Follett
I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.
Lynn V. Andrews
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.
Anonymous
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
Phyllis Bottome
Faith sees the invisible believes the incredible and receives the impossible.
Anonymous
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
Corrie ten Boom
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Starhawk
Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God and like sight it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.
Corrie ten Boom
When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold
Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katherine Graham
Better a false belief than no belief at all.
George Eliot
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
If any good results to a man from believing a lie it certainly comes from the honesty of his belief.
Margaret Collier Graham
Failure is not sweet but it need not be bitter.
Anonymous
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett Marden
We have forty million reasons for failure but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
If your project doesn't work look for the part that you didn't think was important.
Arther Bloch
You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson
Lack of will power has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
A failure establishes only this that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Bovee
Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did and those who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
People fail forward to success.
Mary Kay Ash
Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.
H. G. Bohn
Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Martin Vanbee
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W Clement Stone
Through failure we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed painful though it is.
Bill W.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.
John McEnroe
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach
The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Jung
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes not from example.
Fred Hoyle
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Rosa Luxemburg
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Marian Wright Edelman
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
Allen H. Neuharth
One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.
James Reston
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.
Richard R. Grant
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer
No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Paul Dickson
A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thomas Fuller
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Anonymous
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.
Louis Binstock
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
Hugh Prather