To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: