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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
990 people liked it

"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking."
— George S. Patton Jr.

30 people liked it

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: failure, success
94 people liked it

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, politics, presidential
830 people liked it

"Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."

Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. "
— Donald Miller

29 people liked it

"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."
— John Wesley

5 people liked it

"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
— Aldo Leopold

11 people liked it

"Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."
— Vince Lombardi

tags: business
15 people liked it

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
716 people liked it

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,673 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,449 people liked it

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: compassion, justice, mercy
849 people liked it

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
— John Wayne

790 people liked it

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
— John Wayne

31 people liked it

"If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
— John Wayne

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"never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
— George Herman Ruth

11 people liked it

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
— George Herman Ruth

6 people liked it

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: planning, plans, strategy, war
27 people liked it

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: humor, leadership
20 people liked it

"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: conservatism, conservatives, democrats, extremism, liberalism, liberals, politics, republicans
11 people liked it

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization."
— George Carlin

tags: atheism
97 people liked it

"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice."
— Bill Cosby

86 people liked it

"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet."
— Bill Cosby

tags: parents
55 people liked it

"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
— Arab Proverb

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"Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty."
— Carl Hiaasen (Strip Tease)

tags: god, humor
89 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
809 people liked it

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
142 people liked it

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer
107 people liked it

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "
— Søren Kierkegaard

23 people liked it

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
413 people liked it

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

125 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
387 people liked it

"Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus."
— Esther M. Friesner (Nobody's Princess)

tags: gods, greek
34 people liked it

""God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.""
— Willie Nelson

8 people liked it

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
— Will Rogers

21 people liked it

""One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.""
— Rogers McWilliams

tags: work
5 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,313 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
8,104 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,299 people liked it

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
3,215 people liked it

"Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe."
— Barbara De Angelis

29 people liked it

"Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst. "
— Rob Bell

16 people liked it

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