If a man should feel before as he feels after repentance -- then who would not attain perfection?
ChanakyaIt is clear that he does not pray who far from uplifting himself to God requires that God shall lower Himself to him and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas AquinasPeople who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen HayesAchievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett MardenYou will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
Pope John Paul IIToo often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers our teachers to be truant officers because we're giving them children who have you know they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade they know they're behind.
Colin PowellIf you make me the sole object of your thoughts and aims you will gain the supreme goal.
Sai BabaYou want to come out here and play good basketball. The fans here know their basketball and want to see good basketball.
Kobe BryantI don't like these cold precise perfect people who in order not to speak wrong never speak at all and in order not to do wrong never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher