William > William's Quotes

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.”
― John Piper, Finally Alive

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
― Walter Bagehot

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
― Edward J. Stieglitz

“Tomorrow is always another day to make things right. ”
― Lauryn Hill

“There are so many people who will tell you that you can’t do this, but you have to make sure that your voice isn’t going to be one of them.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― James Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays