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1697 Clergyman Quotes

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Trouble Ruined Praise Criticism
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It's always too early to quit.

Always Early Quit
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Empty Pockets Back Heart
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Soon Break Bow Stretched
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Life Peace Harmonious Stress
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Tomorrow Bed Take You
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Fact Important Attitude Determines
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe Faith Abilities Humble
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Battle Happiness Life Retreat
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Action Restorer Builder Confidence
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Bright Picture Happy Expectations
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Put off Sure Done Never
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Spend Practical Learn Value
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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Interesting Be Enthusiastic Talk
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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Mistakes Learn Important Success
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Understanding Overcome Situation Mysterious
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Magic Enthusiasm Spell Mediocrity
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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Shoulder Drop Atlas World
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Imagination True Magic Carpet
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Stamp Indelibly Mind Mental
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Change Work Seem
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Believe Success Work Pray
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Promise Crying Babies Carried
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Pray You Modify Personal
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Physical Mental Resources Focused
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Problem Seed Solution Seed
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Obstacle Stand Up Strength
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Watch Speech Develop Peaceful
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You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Build Building Foundation Going
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Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
Endured Enjoyed Just Life
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Grows Hard Hard Work Nothing
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Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
Beginning Cultivating Men Men And Women
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Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Any Believe Expression Faith
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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Criticism Destroy Entire Everyone
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I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

Greatly Immorality Internet Think
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If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

Activities Better Busy Care
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If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

Chief Chief Concern Comfort Concern
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God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

Act Agency Choose Free
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I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Aid Better Better Job Churches
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I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

Hospital Life My Life Night
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Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.
Affairs Concerning Entitled Every
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People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Anchor Firm Get Hold
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We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

Brothers Brothers And Sisters Daughters Each
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We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

Apart Failing Falling Family
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Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
Eternal Knowledge Learning Thing
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Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
Life Observed Ought Precious
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If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

Eternal Eternity Immortality Marriage
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Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
Conflict Grows Ignorance Out
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We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Door Education Know Opportunity
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You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

Along Coffee Get Need
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