Source Unknown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.

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Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for oth

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

Advice

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Adversity

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

Adversity

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversit

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Adversity

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be bui

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Adversity

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them

Adversity

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.

Adversity

However far your travels take you, you will never find the g

However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure.

Advertising

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy,

If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden.

Adversity

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice

Advice

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so th

Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together.

Adversity

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage b

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Advertising

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he re

Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out.

Adversity

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hi

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.

Adversity

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we

Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

Adversity

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

Adversity

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Adversity

In full view of his television audience, he preached a new r

In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.

Evangelism

Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large scr

Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans.

Exaggeration