People of the world, here is my preliminary list of wicked-awesome monster quotes:
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. –Winston Churchill
If you cannot feed one hundred people, then feed just one. –Mother Teresa
Apathy isn’t it. –John Lennon
A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects. –GK Chesterton
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. –Edmund Burke
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible, the ninety-nine will read the Christian. –DL Moody
Be kind, for everyone you know is facing a great battle. –Philo of Alexandria
You say it’s money that we need, as if we’re only mouths to feed. –Arcade Fire
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger. –C.S. Lewis
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. –Oliver Wendell Holmes
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. –Fredrich Engels
Wicked men obey from fear, good men from love. –Aristotle
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. –Sun Tzu
Faith does not…spring from the miracle, but the miracle from faith. –Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every politician is a human in disguise. –Matisyahu
It is not the critic who counts; but the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiently, and spends himself in a worthy cause. –Teddy Roosevelt
Everyone has the will to win but champions have the will to prepare. –Bobby Knight
The best way out is always through. –Robert Frost
I would rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I’m not. –Kurt Cobain
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action. –Martin Luther King Jr.
Boo-yah –Stuart Scott
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. –Winston Churchill
Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds all together. –Hugh McCloud
The wise man does at once, what the fool does finally. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? –Mary Oliver
Nothing is easy…but who wants nothing? –Donald Trump
Love has reasons that reason will never know. –Don Chaeffer
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on it’s shoes. –Mark Twain
I could be another fool, or an exception to the rule. –Elliott Smith
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. –Margaret Mead
And death shall have no dominion. –Dylan Thomas
The sick and the maimed are not hot spots of contamination but potential reservoirs of God’s mercy. –Philip Yancey
It’s the end of the world as we know it, but I feel fine. –Michael Stipe
Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love all, trust a few. –William Shakespeare
Faith is believing in advance what only makes sense in reverse. –unknown
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. –Tennyson
When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. –Job
Let’s light a match to these dynamite dreams. –The Explosion
Think of the impact if the first thing radical feminists thought of when the conversation turned to evangelical men was that they had the best reputation for keeping their marriage vows and serving their wives in the costly fashion of Jesus at the cross. Think of the impact if the first thing the homosexual community thought of when someone mentioned evangelicals was that they were the people who lovingly ran the AIDS shelters and tenderly cared for them down to their last gasp. A little consistent wholesome modeling and costly servanthood are worth millions of true words spoken harshly. –Philip Yancey
We have 40 million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. –Kipling
Whoever said you have a right to give up? –Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyday people are straying from religion and going back to God. — unknown
March 12, 2007 at 10:08 am
You have a good list going here. Keep it up and let me know if you want me to pass you a few of my favorites.
March 27, 2007 at 5:18 am
Lovely.
I’m going to steal your idea and use it on my own web-site. I got one for my birthday from the Colemans! Now I will have a place for all the cool quotes written in my calendar.