Quotes gathered by Xavier James over the years

 

Quotes

Smiling wins more friends than frowning.

Your attitude determines your attitude.

A thousand mile journey begins with the first step.

In fact, unless I possess something, can I really give it?

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence, then it is not an act, but a habit.             -Aristotle.

There can be no friendship without confidence and no confidence without integrity. -Samuel Johnson.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Love is a beautiful flower that blossoms on earth with its roots deeply embedded in eternity. – Marues Johnson

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninteresting person. – G.K. Chestenson

You alone I love, You alone I seek, You alone my God. – St. Augustine.

A rose in the morning didn’t know that its beauty was born upon a thorn.

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Thomas Kuhn

Heaven is full of answers to prayers which no one has bothered to pray. – Billy Graham.

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things it comes and softly sits on your shoulder.

Those who change after change will survive

Those who change with change will succeed

Those who cause the change will lead.

Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

As we advance in life we learn limits of our abilities virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the heart.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. – Benjamin Franklin.

First deserve then desire.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. – Benjamin Franklin.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

Many aspire for greatness but few attain it.

Honesty with oneself is the condition of spiritual integrity. – Dr. Radhakrishnan.

Do not try to become big by making others small.

Only the weaker knows where the shoe pinches.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Respect the opinions of others even if you disagree with them.

Money comes and goes, morality comes and grows.

Success finds its own way to reach the man of will.

Obstacles are stepping stones and not stopping stones to success.

Success is a public affair, failure is a private funeral.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Only those who risk going too far can possibly discover how far one can go.

You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.

You cannot discover new Oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.

To achieve our goals we must have firm resolve, persistence and tenacity.

Motivation will almost beat mere talent.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.

Team work is the ladder on which all other successes mount.

Be not afraid of rising slowly, be afraid of only standing still.

If often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starb Jorden.

It is the character that communicates most eloquently.

Search your own heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life.

We must learn to listen and this requires emotional strength. Listening involves patience, openness and the desire to understand.

It is so much easier to operate from a low emotional level and to give high level advice.

It is futile to part personality ahead of character to try to improve relationship with others before improving own.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that only can be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another either by argument or by emotional appeal.

No one can hurt you without your consent. – Roosevelt.

They cannot take away our self-respect, if we do not give it to them – Gandhi