Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 39

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
 Sallust
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.
 Evelyn Underhill
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.
 Oliver Sacks
People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.
 Amy Dickinson
I think that's almost what it is sometimes if you sum up what acting is. It's just the ultimate expression of empathy.
 Emily Blunt
Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.
 Matisyahu
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.
 George Whitefield
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.
Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity-- Early to bed and early to rise Make a man healthy and wealth and wise. As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.
Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
 Patricia Heaton
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
 Jan Peter Balkenende
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
 Mencius
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
 Jacob Bronowski
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.
 Helen Rowland
You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.
 Richard Rohr