Famous Quotes: L
Labor
“There is no real wealth but the labor of man.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
“There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow man. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.” (Walter Reuther)
“The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. JOB security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: JOBs are owned by the company, you own your career!” (Earle Nightingale)
“Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.” (Jules Ormont)
Laughter
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” (Catullus)
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” (Victor Borge)
“Laughter is by definition healthy.” (Doris Lessing)
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.” (Anonymous)
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” (Ethel Barrymore)
“It is the same life whether we spend it crying or laughing.” (Japanese proverb)
Laws
“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.” (Robert Frost)
“Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.” (Otto Von Bismarck
“Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.” (Edmund Burke)
“Where the law is uncertain there is no law.” (Proverb)
Leadership
“Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.” (Matthew 23: 10-12)
“. . .he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.” (Luke 22:26)
“True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.“ (Robert Townsend)
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.” (Walter Lippman)
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”
(Harold Geneen)
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” (Peter Drucker)
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” (Ray Kroc)
Legacy
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” (Carl W. Buechner)
“There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.” (Stephen Covey
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” (Pericles)
“The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.” (John Allston)
“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.” (Johann Von Schiller)
“We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul.” (Anonymous)
“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” (William Shakespeare)
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” (Charles Swindoll)
Life
“Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.” (Isaiah 49:1)
“The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.” (Proverbs 10:27)
“Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.” (Jeremiah 1: 4,5)
“But thou art he that took me out of the womb;thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God since my mother bare me.” (Psalm 22: 9,10)
“If thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.” (Matthew 19: 17)
“Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.” (John 15: 9-11)
“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude toward us.” (Earl Nightingale)
“For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.” (Luke 9:24)
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” (Soren Kierkegaard)
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.” (George Bernard Shaw)
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” (Thomas LaMance)
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” (Cardinal Newman)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. I prefer the latter." (Albert Einstein)
"May you live all the days of your life!" (Jonathan Swift)
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
(Anonymous)
“An unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates)
“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.” (Carl Sandburg)
“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” (White Elk)
“Life is too short to be small.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
Light
“While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.” (John 12: 36)
“Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8: 12)
“The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.” (John 1:7)
“Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” (Motto of Christopher Society)
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” (Charles Austin Beard)
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” (Taylor Benson)
“It is not necessary to blow out your neighbor’s light to ket your own shine.”
(M.R. Dehaan)
“Light is the symbol of truth.” (James Russell Lowell)
Love
“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13: 34-35)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
“Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth. (1 Corinthians 13:4)
“And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” (Luke 10:27)
“No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.” (John 15: 15)
“Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.” (Ephesians 5: 1,2)
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15: 13)
“But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13)
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 4:12 No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us . . .” (1 John 4: 11, 12)
“This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. “ (John 15: 12)
“Thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. “ (Deuteronomy 6:5)
“ . . . above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins. . .” (1 Peter 4: 8)
“Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.” (1 John 4:9)
“For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” (1 John 4:18)
“He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.” (Proverbs 17: 9)
“My Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.” (1 John 3:18)
“There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
(1 John 4:18)
“ . . . and the scripture was fulfilled which saith, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.” (James 2: 23)
“Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.” (James 4: 4)
“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” (Mother Teresa)
“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
“Love has the quality of informing almost everything - - even one's work.” (Sylvia Ashton-Warner)
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.” (Sydney Smith)
“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” (Fr. Jerome Cummings)
“Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” (Franklin P. Jones)
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.” (Antoine de Saint Exupery)
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” (Henry Ward Beecher)
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” (Aristotle)
“When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.” (John Gray)
“The first duty of love is to listen.” (Paul Tillich)
“So long as we love, we serve.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The heart is wiser than the intellect.” (Josiah Holland)
“While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy.” (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” (David Viscott)
“You will find, as you look back on your life, that . . . the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.” (Henry Drummond)
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” (Plato)
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." (Sam Keen)
"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." (Anonymous)
"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged." (Hans Nouwens)
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart." (Kay Knudsen)
“Love is the only thing that multiplies when we give it away.” (Gloria Burgess)
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.” (Ralph W. Sockman)
"We can give without loving, but we cannot love without giving." (Alexander Duff)
"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." (St. Augustine)
“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.” (Arthur Rubinstein)
“They do not love who do not show their love.” (Shakespeare)
“Don't forget to love yourself.” (Søren Kierkegaard)
“A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange.” (Anonymous)
“Happiness is an unexpected hug.” (Anonymous)
“A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.” (Proverb)
Loyalty
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.” (Proverbs 27: 6)
“And he said unto him, Well done, thou good servant: because thou wast found faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.” (Luke 19: 17)
“He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.” (Luke 16: 10)
“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.” (G.K.Chesterton)
“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.” (Grace Murray Hopper)
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” (Woodrow Wilson)
“An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.” (Elbert Hubbard)
“It is better to be faithful than famous.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
