Famous Quotes: S
Sacrifice
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15: 13)
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.” (Romans 12:1)
“Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.” (Philippians 2: 17)
“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” (Erich Fromm)
“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.” (George Santayana)
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” (Napolean Hill)
“One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.” (Sidney Howard)
Self-control
“If you don’t get the better of yourself, someone else will.” (Unknown)
Self-denial
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.” (Matthew 4:2)
“I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.” (Psalm 35:13)
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.”(Luke 6:38)
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)
“For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.” (2 Timothy 1:7)
“. . . this kind goeth not out save by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17: 21)
“It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” (Henry Ward Beecher)
“Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.” (Theodore Parker)
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.” (Jesse Owens)
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.“ (Jim Rohn)
“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.” (Plato)
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.” (Harry S. Truman)
“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.” (Anonymous)
“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.” (Jim Rohn)
Self-help
“They that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)
“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” (St. Bernard)
“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” (St. Jerome)
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” (Winston Churchill)
“In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” (Winston Churchill)
“They that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.” (Baltasar Gracian)
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” (W. Somerset Maugham)
Selflessness
“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.” (Anonymous)
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” (Kurt Vonnegut)
“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” (Fred Allen)
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” (Blaise Pascal)
“In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.” (George Santayana)
Service
“"For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” (Mark 10: 45)
"If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.” (John 12: 26)
“Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.” (James 2: 18)
“For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.” (James 2: 26)
"No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6: 24)
“And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, 18:3 and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.: (Matthew 18: 2, 3)
“For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God . . .” (2 Corinthians 9: 12)
“Life is more than making money, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life - - service to others.” (Edward Bok)
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.” (Albert Schweitzer)
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” (Leo Tolstoy)
“Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.” (Albert Einstein)
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” (Douglas Adams)
“God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.” (Mother Teresa)
Simplicity
“And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18: 2,3)
“Jehovah preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.” (Psalm 116: 6)
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” (Albert Einstein)
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours." (C.S. Lewis)
“Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought.” (Anonymous)
“When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.” (Anonymous)
“A man is rich in proportion to the number things he can afford to let alone.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“A man’s true worth is the good he does in this world.” (Mohammed)
“Wealth consists in not having great possessions, but in having few wants.” (Epicurus)
“There’ll be no pockets in your shroud.” (James J. Hill)
“True genius lies in simplicity.” (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” (Frederic Chopin)
“Less is more.” (Mies Vander Rohe)
“There is a majesty in simplicity.” (Alexander Pope)
“Live simply that others might simply live.” (Elizabeth Seaton)
“Our lives are frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” (Henry David Thoreau)
Sorrow
“Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.” (Psalm 34: 18-19)
“Just because you had a nightmare doesn’t mean you should stop dreaming.” (Jill Scott)
Spirituality
“Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.” (Psalm 25:1)
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10)
“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.” (Psalm 95:2)
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” (Saint Augustine)
“Why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” (Matthew 6: 28-29)
“I am a spiritual person living in a human body, not a human body with a spirit.” (Bob Proctor)
"Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in silence of the heart." (Mother Teresa)
“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.” (St. Teresa of Avila)
“Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.” (Robert Anthony)
“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” (Chandra L. Jackson)
“Every day, no matter what I’m doing, I say, “Lord I’ll do the best I can, and you do the rest.” (Loretta Young)
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger; Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your task.” (Phillips Brooks)
“Scripture teaches us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying.” (John Flavel)
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die the undertaker will be sorry.” (Mark Twain)
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” (Henri Frederic Amiel)
“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” (James 4:8)
“The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be perfectly still.” (George Seaton Bowes)
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.” (Antoine Saint-Exupéry)
“I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. (Albert Camus)
“It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“The saints are sinners, who kept on going.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“The best things in life aren’t things.” (Ann Landers)
Stewardship
“Honor Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.” (Proverbs 3: 9-10)
“Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” (Malachi 3:10)
“But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.” (Matthew 6: 3-4)
“Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.” (Luke 6:30)
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it.” (Proverbs 3:27)
“The righteous giveth and withholdeth not.” (Proverbs 21:26)
“If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.” (James 2: 15-17)
“But this I say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” (2 Corinthians 9:6-7)
“Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” (1 Corinthians 4:2)
“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.” (Proverbs 22:9)
“Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Luke 12: 32-34)
“Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete it shall be measured unto you; and more shall be given unto you.” (Mark 4:24)
“Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.” (Ecclesiastes 11:1)
“What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you’ve received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.” (Johnnetta B. Cole)
“The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving what you have, but in giving of who you are.” (Johnnetta B. Cole)
“I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity - - in important things, diversity - - in all things, generosity.” (George Bush, Sr.)
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” (John F. Kennedy)
“Generosity is one of the essential components of mental health. We have found that generous people are rarely mentally ill.” (Karl Menninger)
“It is in giving that we receive.” (Saint Francis of Assisi)
Strength
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1)
“I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13)
“He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.” (Isaiah 40:29)
“The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust. . .” (Psalm 18:1)
“But they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40: 31)
“What does not destroy me, makes me strong.” (John Milton)
“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.” (Henry Ward Beecher)
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Concentration is the secret of strength.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Confidence comes from victory, but strength comes from the struggle.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
“The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.” (Henry Ward Beecher)
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.” (Ralph W. Sockman)
Success
“But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13)
“Commit thy way unto Jehovah. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.” (Psalm 37: 5)
“But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6: 3)
“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.” (Charles Kendall Adams)
“I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.“ (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“Success does not come to you. You go to it.” (Wally “Famous” Amos)
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” (John C. Maxwell)
“Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.” (Sparky Anderson)
“Success is not perfection; success is slightly above average.” (Unknown)
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” (Paul Brown)
“The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” (Mark Victor Hansen)
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
(Henry David Thoreau)
“Success has made failures of many men.” (Cindy Adams)
“Success is a journey, not a destination.” (Ben Sweetland)
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“God has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful.”
(Mother Teresa)
“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.” (Albert Schweitzer)
“Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.” (Vanessa Redgrave)
“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is genius.” (An Wang)
“The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” (Irving Berlin)
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.” (James Yorke)
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” (Earl Wilson)
“Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.” (Alex Noble)
“All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.” (Anonymous)
“If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average.” (Ovid)
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” (William Feather)
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.” (Earl Nightingale)
“Success is never final, but failure can be.” (Bill Parcells)
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” (Norman Vincent Peale)
“Success comes in cans; failure comes in can’ts.” (Anonymous)
“The road to success is always under construction.” (Anthony Robbins)
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” (Albert Schweitzer)
Suffering
“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.” (Laura Moncour)
Swearing
“. . . but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth. . . ." (Colosians 3:8)
"But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one." (Matthew 5:37)
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in thy sight, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)
“Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” (Lawrence J. Peter)
“Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.” (Jeremy Taylor)
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” (Mark Twain)
Sympathy
"Sympathy is no substitute for action." (David Livingstone)
“He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
