Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal.
J. I. Packer
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
Ignacy (Jan) Paderewski
My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
Marcel Pagnol
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Babe Paley
I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
Barbara Paley
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert Palmer
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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