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You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there  and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.
— Nancy Ditz
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.
— Eva Le Gallienne
Get out of the blocks  run your race  stay relaxed. If you run your race  you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
— Carol Lewis
Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
— Ernestine Schumann-Heink
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision  the determination  and the courage to reach it.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
We all live with the objective of being happy  our lives are all different  and yet the same.
— Anne Frank
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
— Joseph Campbell
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
— Simone de Beauvoir
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes  but above me and within me  there was a spirit stronger than them all.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously  and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor  she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
No matter what the competition is  I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
— Bonnie Blair
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
— Bonnie Blair
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Normal is not something to aspire to  it's something to get away from.
— Jodie Foster
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
— Billie Holiday
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today  I knew it then as purpose.
— Bette Davis
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats  there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
— George Eliot
Remember if people talk behind your back  it only means you're two steps ahead!
— Fannie Flagg
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
— Miles Franklin
For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut  a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
— Christine Lavin
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
— Frances Marion
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough  and the old applause.
— Fred Astaire
First say to yourself what you would be  and then do what you have to do.
— Epictetus
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do  I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
— Golda Meir
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause  but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
— Anna Pavlova
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself  in the face of difficulties.
— Katherine Mansfield
To be what we are  and to become what we are capable of becoming  is the only end of life.
— Baruch Spinoza
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan  where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous  but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.
— Dr. Laura Schlessinger
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning  it satisfies the senses amazingly.
— Virginia Woolf
Our victory is sure to come  and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
— Lucy Stone
If you just set out to be liked  you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time  and you would achieve nothing.
— Margaret Thatcher
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
— Thomas Eakins
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
— Rosie O'Donnell
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows  must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
— Anna Jameson
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
— Andre Maurois
As you emphasize your life  you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
— Phillips Brooks
There are people who want to be everywhere at once  and they get nowhere.
— Carl Sandburg
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
— Mary Parker Follett
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end  although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock  and assumes ten different positions in a day.
— Charles Caleb Colton
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
— Marcel Proust
Nations  like individuals  have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
— James Reston
One of the most important factors  not only in military matters but in life as a whole  is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
— Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
— Johann von Goethe
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water  one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
— Chinese proverb
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
— Nathaniel Emmons
I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
— William J. Lock
He who begins many things finishes but few.
— Italian proverb
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
— German proverb
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
— Chinese proverb
If you run after two hares  you will catch neither.
— Thomas Fuller
The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
— Spanish proverb
The man who seeks one thing in life  and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
— Owen Meredith
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit  for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. -Samuel Johnson No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one  and love the other  or else he will hold to the one  and despise the other.
— Bible
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea  one great overmastering purpose  overshadowing all his aims  and guiding and controlling his entire life.
— Julius Bate
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it  genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
— Lord Chesterfield
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life  and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages  are indispensable conditions of success.
— William M. Punshion
If you would be Pope  you must think of nothing else.
— Spanish proverb
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything  and consequently get nothing.
— Andre Gide
I care not what your education is  elaborate or nothing  what your mental calibre is  great or small  that man who concentrates all his energies of body  mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
— T. DeWitt Talmage
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.
— Japanese proverb
He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
— Portuguese proverb
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
— Samuel Butler
Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief  lightens all worry  dissolves all fear and anxiety.
— Gladys Taber
Let us live  while we are alive!
— Johann von Goethe
Life is an end in itself  and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
— Rebecca West
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
— Cher
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
— Aristotle
The goal of all civilization  all religious thought  and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.
— Don Marquis
The business of life is to enjoy oneself  everything else is a mockery.
— Norman Douglas
The true object of human life is play.
— G. K. Chesterton
Use your health  even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die  do not outlive yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Pleasure is the object  duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
— Voltaire
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
— Oscar Wilde
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
— G. K. Chesterton
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
— Erich Fromm
The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
— S. J. Perelman
From his cradle to the grave  a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind  spiritual comfort  for himself.
— Mark Twain
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of  perhaps only some formula of  peace.
— James Conrad
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
— Susan Cheever
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
— Anita DeFrantz
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel  when I could be the artist?
— J. C. F. von Schiller
I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them  but I can't relax them.
— Mary Decker Slaney
I want to be great  or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber  so I don't intend to try any more.
— Louisa May Alcott
We're half the people  we should be half the Congress.
— Jeannette Rankin
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
— Martina Navratilova
It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.
— Sheila Ballantyne
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
— Charlotte Bunch
Aim at the sun  and you may not reach it  but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
— J. Hawes
When one paints an ideal  one does not need to limit one's imagination.
— Ellen Key
If you would hit the mark  you must aim a little above it  every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
— Florence Griffith Joyner
Nearly every glamorous  wealthy  successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.
— Helen Gurley Brown
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
— Willa Cather
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore  though they should fall immediately  they had better aim at something high.
— Henry David Thoreau
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
— Josephine Baker
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled  but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars  but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure  but low aim  is a sin.
— Benjamin Mays
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
— Clara Barton
It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I am comforted by life's stability  by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
— Pearl S. Buck
Someday  someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
— Barbara Bush
When you reach for the stars  you may not quite get one  but you won't come up with a handful of mud  either.
— Leo Burnett
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
— Jacqueline Cochran
The brain is wider than the sky.
— Emily Dickinson
My motto: sans limites.
— Isadora Duncan
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
— Wilma Pearl Mankiller
[My father] said  Don't grow up to be a woman  and what he meant by that was  a housewife ... without any interests.
— Maria Goeppert Mayer
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of  that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never  any of us  are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
— Katherine Anne Porter
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
— Jill Robinson
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
— Margaret Thatcher
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
— Rachel Carson
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible  that peace is indivisible  that economic prosperity is indivisible.
— Indira Gandhi
I always ask the question  "Is this what I want in my life?"
— Kathy Ireland
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
— Bessie Coleman
He who demands little gets it.
— Ellen Glasgow
Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection  we have forfeited our manhood.
— Stephen McKenna
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always  this occupation ought to last as long as life.
— Christina Augusta
I was born to be a remarkable woman  it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
— Marie Bashkirtseff
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
— Barbara Jordaon
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
— Doris Lessing
Too low they build  who build beneath the stars.
— Edward Young
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
— Madonna
Your world is as big as you make it.
— Georgia Douglas Johnson
Once you say you're going to settle for second  that's what happens to you.
— John F. Kennedy
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in  aim at earth and you get neither.
— C. S. Lewis
I truly believe that before I retire from public office  I'll be voting for a woman for president.
— Barbara Mikulski
We are all in the gutter  but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.
— Maude Adams
Aim at perfection in everything  though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it  and persevere  will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
— Lord Chesterfield
One may miss the mark by aiming too high  as too low.
— Thomas Fuller
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it  you will land among the stars.
— Les Brown
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them  but I can look up and see the beauty  believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
— Louisa May Alcott
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
— Marcus Aurelius
Not failure  but low aim  is crime.
— James Russell Lowell
Great is the road I climb  but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
— Propertius
I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
— Red Auerbach
Man's reach should exceed his grasp  or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
Before you begin a thing  remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris
You have to erect a fence and say  "Okay  scale this."
— Linda Ronstadt
You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
— Marcia Wieder
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
— John Powell
You must learn day by day  year by year  to broaden your horizon. The more things you love  the more you are interested in  the more you enjoy  the more you are indignant about  the more you have left when anything happens.
— Ethel Barrymore
What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment  but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.
— Henry J. Golding
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose  aiming at something outside self.
— Hugh Black
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
— John Mason Brown
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
Happiness is not the end of life  character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification  but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.
— Mary Kay Ash
Growth is not concerned with itself.
— Meridel Le Sueur
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
— Madonna
If ambition doesn't hurt you  you haven't got it.
— Kathleen Norris
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word  duty. It is the other side of rights.
— Pearl S. Buck
This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish  selfish little clod of ailments and grievances  complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
— George Bernard Shaw
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
— Willa Cather
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The measure of a life  after all  is not its duration  but its donation.
— Corrie ten Boom
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty  ihen happiness comes of itself.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them  you are not necessary to anyone.
— Marlene Dietrich
Seek happiness for its own sake  and you will not find it  seek for duty  and happiness will follow  as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
— Tyron Edwards
True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification  but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
— William Cowper
True happiness  we are told  consists in getting out of one's self  but the point is not only to get out  you must stay out  and to stay out  you must have some absorbing errand.
— Henry James
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
— Phillips Brooks
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
— Ruth Benedict
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
— Luigi Pirandello
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good  or a personal to a general one  can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
— Horace Mann
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea  in the conquest of the goal pursued.
— R. Briffault
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere  wholeheartedly  one-directionally  without regret or reservation.
— William H. Sheldon
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
— Marcus Aurelius
Happy the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
— William J. Locke
Give a man health and a course to steer  and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Without duty  life is soft and boneless.
— Joseph Joubert
Never mind your happiness  do your duty.
— Will Durant
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who  by all laws of logic  should never have made it. At each stage of my career  I lacked the experience.
— Audrey Hepburn
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams  and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined  he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
A determinate purpose of life  and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages  are indispensable conditions of success.
— William M. Punshion
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
— Benjamin Franklin
The object of war is not to die for your country  but to make the other bastard die for his.
— General George S. Patton
The object of war is to survive it.
— John Irving
If we want a free and peaceful world  if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense  to be emotionally sincere  to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings  one's work  one's beliefs.
— Karen Horney
I think the purpose of life is to be useful  to be responsible  to be honorable  to be compassionate. It is  after all  to matter: to count  to stand for something  to have made some difference that you lived at all.
— Leo C. Rosten
Only when men are connected to large  universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The great business of life is to be  to do  to do without  and to depart.
— John Morley
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
— Jack London
Life's objective is life itself.
— Johann von Goethe
There are two things to aim at in life: first  to get what you want  and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
— Dante Alighieri
Reach high  for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep  for every dream precedes the goal.
— Pamela Vaull Starr
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
— Marcus Aurelius
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James
How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.
— Woody Allen
God enters by a private door into every individual.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God gives the milk but not the pail.
— English proverb
God Himself is not secure  having given man dominion over His work.
— Helen Keller
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
— Voltaire
God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
— Graffiti
God pays  but not weekly wages.
— Polish proverb
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
— Arthur Koestler
God uses lust to impel men to marry  ambition to office  avarice to earning  and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
— Martin Luther
God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.
— Yiddish proverb
God  when he makes the prophet  does not unmake the man.
— John Locke
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good  and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
— Jesus Christ
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if he wanted to  but I very much doubt if he would because it seems to be contrary to the way in which he deals with persons and brings his wonders out of natural personal relationships.
— Right Rev. David Jenkins
If Jesus was Jewish  how come he has a Mexican name?
— Anonymous
In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass  I find letters from God dropt in the street  and every one is signed by God's name  and I leave them where they are  for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.
— Walt Whitman
The glory of God is in man fully alive.
— St. Irenaeus
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
— Elayne Boosler
The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever.
— Woody Allen
Though the mills of God grind slowly  yet they grind exceeding small  Though with patience He stands waiting  with exactness grinds he all.
— Friedrich von Logau
Try thyself first  and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
— Euripides
By night an atheist half-believes in God.
— Edward Young
Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency  but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry  like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.
— Clarence Day
Lord  who art always the same  give that I know myself  give that I know Thee.
— St. Augustine
We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
— Archibald MacLeish
Man appoints  and God disappoints.
— Cervantes
I am afraid I shall not find Him  but I shall still look for Him. If He exists  He may be appreciative of my efforts.
— Jules Renard
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.
— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
The more of himself man attributes to God  the less he has left in himself.
— Karl Marx
God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
— H. L. Mencken
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
— Jean Anouilh
I could prove God statistically.
— George Gallup
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
— Andri Malraux
Christ - an anarchist who succeeded.
— Axel Munthe
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
— Francis Bacon
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe  the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
— Pablo Picasso
The nearer the church  the further from God.
— Bishop Lancelot Andrewes
God'll send the bill to you.
— James Russell Lowell
I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.
— Muslim Creed
The world is more exacting than God himself.
— Yiddish proverb
Give God time.
— The Koran
God will be present  whether asked or not.
— Latin proverb
If God did not exist  it would be necessary to invent him.
— Voltaire
We trust  sir  that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
— George Bernard Shaw
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
— Albert Einstein
One on God's side is a majority.
— Wendell Phillips
If triangles had a God  he would have three sides.
— Baron de Montesquieu
God does not pay weekly  but he pays at the end.
— Dutch proverb
The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.
— Meher Baba
Man proposes  God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts  who best Bear His mild yoke  they serve Him best  His state Is kingly  thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.
— John Milton
If God made us in his image  we have certainly returned the compliment.
— Voltaire
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity  but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance  renewed daily  of a wonder  the source of which is beyond all reason.
— Dag Hammarskjold
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea  because we have heard it  and because our faith tells us so  that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls  or who dwells within them  or how precious they are  those are things which we seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
— Teresa of Avila
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.
— Honore de Balzac
Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.
— Thomas Reid
God is incorporeal  divine  supreme  infinite. Mind  Spirit  Soul  Principle  Life  Truth  Love.
— Mary Baker Eddy
No statement about God is simply  literally true. God is far more than can be measured  described  defined in ordinary language  or pinned down to any particular happening.
— David Jenkins
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow  and to love Him as they love their cow-for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort.
— Meister Eckhart
Your mind cannot possibly understand God. Your heart already knows. Minds were designed for carrying out the orders of the heart.
— Emmanuel
A comprehended God is no God at all.
— Gerhard Tersteegen
"What do you think of God " the teacher asked. After a pause  the young pupil replied  "He's not a think  he's a feel."
— Paul Frost
To them that ask  where have you seen the Gods  or how do you know for certain there are Gods  that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul  and yet I respect and honor it.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is the heart which experiences God  not the reason.
— Blaise Pascal
I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go  and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.
— Joycelyn Elders
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes  but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
— Rabbi Harold Kushner
God is to me that creative Force  behind and in the universe  who manifests Himself as energy  as life  as order  as beauty  as thought  as conscience  as love.
— Henry Sloane Coffin
God  that dumping ground of our dreams.
— Jean Rostand
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
— William James
God  to be God  must transcend what is. He must be the maker of what ought to be.
— Rufus M. Jones
God is an unutterable sigh  planted in the depths of the soul.
— Jean Paul Richter
God is a verb  not a noun.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God  whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."
— Voltaire
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. God is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life  and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.
— Max Lerner
The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power  which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe  forms my idea of God.
— Albert Einstein
God has many names  though He is only one Being.
— Aristotle
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
— Ernest Holmes
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me  God eternal  apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
— Saint Catherine of Siena
When we lose God  it is not God who is lost.
— Anonymous
If we're not growing  we must feel guilty  because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.
— Eva Burrows
The soul can split the sky in two  and let the face of God shine through.
— Edna Saint Vincent Millay
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
— Teresa of Avila
A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.
— Thomas a Kempis
By learning to contact  listen to  and act on our intuition  we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.
— Shakti Gawain
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some people talk about finding God  as if He could get lost.
— Anonymous
Hunting God is a great adventure.
— Marie DeFloris
In the faces of men and women I see God.
— Walt Whitman
To Be is to live with God.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will  or rather our own will is our separation from God.
— William Law
The kingdom of God is within you.
— Bible
Not only then has each man his individual relation to God  but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
— George Macdonald
All who call on God in true faith  earnestly from the heart  will certainly be heard  and will receive what they have asked and desired.
— Martin Luther
The light of God surrounds me  The love of God enfolds me  The power of God protects me  The Presence of God watches over me  Wherever I am  God is.
— Prayer Card
To think you are separate from God is to remain separate from your own being.
— D. M. Street
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints  because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
— Saint Angela of Foligno
Our condition is most noble  being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
— Saint Angela of Foligno
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
— Saint Angela of Foligno
In every out-thrust headland  in every curving beach  in every grain of sand  there is the story of the earth.
— Rachel Carson
Fo those leaning on the sustaining infinite  today is big with blessings.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Oh  if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is  how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.
— Gemma Galgani
He loves  He hopes  He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
— Maria Goretti
Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world  that He sent His Son for its salvation  the Prince and Savior of the faithful  who washed and dried our wounds  and from Him also came that most sweet medicine  from which all the good things of salvation flow.
— Hildegard of Bingen
Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories  but I always end up with just one single word: God.
— Etty Hillesum
I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.
— Mary Gardiner Brainard
Without the assistance of the Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance  I cannot fail.
— Abraham Lincoln
For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things  and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.
— Nancy Parker Brummett
Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
— Therese of Lisieux
The best remedy for those who are afraid  lonely  or unhappy is to go outside  somewhere where they can be quiet  alone with the heavens  nature  and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy  amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists  and it certainly always will  I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow  whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
— Anne Frank
Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.
— Edwin Markham
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss  I would not despair  I would not lose hope of mercy  because I would trust in You  my God.
— Gemma Galgani
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends  but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love  the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
— Bible
I will not fear  for you are ever with me  and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
— Thomas Merton
Pardon  not wrath  is God's best attribute.
— Bayard Taylor
Walk boldly and wisely. ... There is a hand above that will help you on.
— Philip James Bailey
For the multitude of worldly friends profiteth not  nor may strong helpers anything avail  nor wise counselors give profitable counsel  nor the cunning of doctors give consolation  nor riches deliver in time of need  nor a secret place to defend  if Thou  Lord  do not assist  help  comfort  counsel  inform  and defend.
— Thomas a Kempis
The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom  and then put me back in my place.
— Bernadette Soubirous
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness  in the dust of daily life  has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart  and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him  and He shall direct thy paths.
— Bible
God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.
— J. P. DeCaussade
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
— A. P. Herbert
Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.
— D. M. Street
My debt to you  Beloved  Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
— Jessie Rittenhouse
One unquestioned text we read  All doubt beyond  all fear above  Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness.
— Jonathan Edwards
As to the aridity you are suffering from  it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
— Teresa of Avila
The first condition of human goodness is something to love  the second  something to revere.
— George Eliot
No man hates God without first hating himself.
— Fulton J. Sheen
How is it  Lord  that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
— Teresa of Avila
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
— William Ralph Inge
Every law of matter or the body  supposed to govern man is rendered null and void by the law of Life  God.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Whom the heart of man shuts out  Sometimes the heart of God takes in.
— James Russell Lowell
I need nothing but God  and to lose myself in the heart of God.
— Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
To love one that is great  is almost to be great one's self.
— Madame Necker
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
— Anonymous
Gawd knows  and 'E won't split on a pal.
— Rudyard Kipling
Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride.
— Teresa of Avila
"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now  perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything  perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything  do not perform anything  do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
— Paul Tillich
As in heaven Your will is punctually performed  so may it be done on earth by all creatures  particularly in me and by me.
— Saint Elizabeth of Hungary
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.
— Saint Agnes
God delays  but doesn't forget.
— Spanish proverb
How is it  Lord  that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?
— Teresa of Avila
God is clever  but not dishonest.
— Albert Einstein
Yet  in the maddening maze of things  And tossed by storm and flood  To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music  that song  that vibration of God that was inside of me.
— Shirley MacLaine
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
— Helen Keller
The Father most tender  Father of all  my immense God-I His atom.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this  that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason  more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent  from which all truth proceeds  without which there is no truth?
— Friedrich Jacobi
I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled  And made me  in these Christian days  A happy Christian child.
— Jane Taylor
A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.
— Ernest Holmes
Above all am I convinced of the need  irrevocable and inescapable  of every human heart  for God. No matter how we try to escape  to lose ourselves in restless seeking  we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
— A. J. Cronin
Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God  or acting out God through our lives.
— Phillip Hewett
God has not promised skies always blue  flower-strewn pathways all our lives through  God has not promised sun without rain  joy without sorrow  peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day  rest for the labor  light for the way  Grace for the trials  help from above  unfailing sympathy  undying love.
— Annie Johnson Flint
Courage is not afraid to weep  and she is not afraid to pray  even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
— J. Ruth Gendler
God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."
— Anonymous
Deep down in every man  woman and child  is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity  by pomp  by worship of other things  but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves  and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives  are facts as old as man himself.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Our human resources  as marshalled by the will  were not sufficient  they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was  but it does not matter  it does not affect one's faith.
— Abraham Heschel
The experience of God  or in any case the possibility of experiencing God  is innate.
— Alice Walker
Before me  even as behind  God is  and all is well.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
— Bayazid Al-Bistami
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God  and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
— Howard Chandler Christy
It is not my ability  but my response to God's ability  that counts.
— Corrie ten Boom
He is more within us than we are ourselves.
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
— General Omar N. Bradley
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips  Bronze cheeks  and woolly hair  The Grecian gods are like the Greeks  As keen-eyed  cold and fair.
— Walter Bageh
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khat-mandu  There's a little marble cross below the town  There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew  And die yellow god forever gazes down.
— J. Milton Hayes
Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
— Homer
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
— W. J. Bryan
Gold begets in brethren hate  Gold in families debate  Gold does friendship separate  Gold does civil wars create.
— Abraham Cowley
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow  hard and cold
— Thomas Hood
Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
— Virgil
What you do not want others to do to you  do not do to others.
— Confucius
What thou thyself hatest  do to no man.
— Apocrypha Tobit
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.
— Edward N. Westcott
Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee  do not do that to them.
— Hillel Ha-Babli
As ye would that men should do to you  do ye also to them likewise.
— Bible
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory  let us now commit it to life.
— Edwin Markham
All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you  do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
— Matthew
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
— George Bernard Shaw
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The sunshine of the mind.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
— Owen Meredith
Bad is never good until worse happens.
— Danish proverb
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
— Lord Acton
Gifts are hooks.
— Martial
Good things  when short  are twice as good.
— Baltasar Gracian
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live  I shall leave it  when I am summoned out of it  with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
— Joseph Addison
In nature  nothing can be given  all things are sold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
— Ignatius Loyola
The meaning of good and bad  of better and worse  is simply helping or hurting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
— William Butler Yeats