Inspiring Quotes About Life – Part 2
Menanteau Serfontein – 10 December 2021
“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” ― Saint Augustine – theologian and philosopher
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi ― lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” ― Leonardo da Vinci – painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity. ― Charles Spurgeon – theologian and preacher
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow. ― Saint Augustine
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ― Plato – Greek philosopher
However feeble our voices, let us lift them up for the cause of truth and righteousness. ― Charles Spurgeon
What does love look like?
– It has the hands to help others.
– It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy.
– It has eyes to see misery and want.
– It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like. ― Saint Augustine
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ― Victor Hugo – French poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and dramatist of the Romantic movement
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt – American political figure, diplomat, and activist
“The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.” ― Charles Spurgeon
On inaction: “To sit home, read one’s favourite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective.” ― Theodore Roosevelt – Conservationist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” ― Saint Augustine
“You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.” ― Saint Augustine
“A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself”. ― A.W. Tozer – Pastor, author, magazine editor, and spiritual mentor
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” ― Saint Augustine
“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.” ― A.W. Tozer
“To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble.” ― Saint Augustine
“In all trouble you should seek God. You should not set Him over against your troubles, but within them. God can only relieve your troubles if you in your anxiety cling to Him. Trouble should not really be thought of as this thing or that in particular, for our whole life on earth involves trouble; and through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.” ― Saint Augustine
On self-knowledge: “Unless a man is master of his soul (mind), all other kinds of mastery amount to little.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
On corporations: “Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism. … We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to subserve (promote) the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” ― Henry Ford – American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle – Greek philosopher
“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” ― Socrates – Greek philosopher
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ― Winston Churchill – British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.‘” ― Mary Anne Radmacher – writer and artist
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ― Helen Keller – author and educator who was blind and deaf
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” ― Confucius – Chinese philosopher, poet and politician
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” — Helen Keller
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself, but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.” ― Saint Augustine
“Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, ‘I will never abandon you, I will always be with you.’ If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.” ― Saint Augustine
“Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.” ― Charles Spurgeon
