50 POWERFUL QUOTES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FROM THE BOOK THINK BIG

·        To shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruit unheard off.

·        E.A. Robinson.

·        The renown that riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.  – Sallust (86-34 B.C)

·        There are loyal hearts,

o   There are spirits brave,

o   There are souls that are pure and true;

o   Then give the world the best you have,

o   And the best will come back to you.         -  Madeline Bridges.

·        It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.  They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levelers. They give to all who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

·        William Ellery Channing

·        Education is the only way you are ever going to escape out of poverty. It’s the only way you’re ever going to get ahead in life and be successful. 

–       Sonya Carson.

·        Don’t worry about everybody else. The whole world is full of ‘everybody else’. But only a few make a significant achievement.     – Sonya Carson

·        The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man; nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out. After an era of darkness, new races build others; but in the world of books are volumes that live on still, as young and fresh as the day they were written, still telling men’s hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead.       – Clarence Day

·        Reading is the way out of ignorance and the road to achievement.

·        Better a patient man than a warrior, a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.      – Proverbs (16:32)

·         A man’s pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit gains honor.

–       (Proverbs 29:23)

·         I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

-         (Proverbs 8:13)

·        Always give your best.

·         A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.       – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

·         A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.

·        Henry Brooke Adams

·        The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. – Plutarch

·         Anyone who can’t learn from other people’s mistakes simply can’t learn, and that’s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.

·        Donlin Long

·         Learn everything you can, but think for yourselves.

·         Be nice to people, all people, even when you don’t have to be. Everybody is important.

·         He is a portion of the loveliness which once made him lovely.

·         Life is ever a series of partings.

·         Let not young souls be smothered out before they do quaint deeds and flaunt their pride.     - Vachel Lindsay

·         When there is a chance no matter how small, that is when, I believe, we   must take risks and do everything that we can do to maintain that high quality of life.    – Ben Carson

·         If i shoot at the sun. I may hit a star.  – P.T. Barnum

·        To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness.

–       Hans Christian Anderson

·         As he thinketh in his heart so is he. – Proverb 23:7

·         A merry heart doeth good like a medicine but a broken spirit driedth the bones.  – Proverbs 17:22

·         An honest man’s the noblest work of God. – Robert Burns

·         No one can make us feel inferior without our permission.

–       Eleanor Roosevelt

·         Although I believe in consulting with and learning from experts and achievers, consultation cannot replace personal preparation. In my opinion, the base of personal preparation comes more from reading than from any other source. That some people do not like to read much is really no substantive argument, the more we read, the better we read and the more we enjoy reading. We cannot read too much and most of us do not read enough.

·         So many goals, so many creeds,

o   So many paths that wind and wind

o   When just the art of being kind

o   Is all this sad world needs.          – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

·         Knowledge is power.     – Francis Bacon

·        The brain acquires everything that we encounter.

·         I believe that knowledge is power

·        To overcome the past

·        Change our situations

·        To fight new obstacles

·        To make better decisions

·         Knowledge makes people special

·        No knowledge is wasted

·         Knowledge enriches life itself, Knowledge makes us better people. Knowledge broadens our grasp of the world around us.

·        No one needs an ignoramus. No one wants an ignoramus.

·        Then you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free. – (John 8:32)

·         Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways, in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.       – Aldous Huxley.

·         Isn’t it strange how princes and kings

o   and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,

o   and common people, like you and me,

o   are builders for eternity?

o   Each is given a list of rules;

o   a shapeless mass; a bag of tools.

o   And each must fashion, ere life is flown,

o   A stumbling block, or a stepping stone.          – R.L. Sharpe.

·        The mind, once stretched by an idea, never returns to its original dimension.

·         Here is a treasure chest of the world- the public library or a book store.

·         If we commit ourselves to reading, thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.

·         Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.     – Ecclesiastes

·         More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. – Tennyson

·         Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

–       Proverbs 16:18

·         When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

·        Proverbs 11:2

·         A man’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.     –

·        Haughty eyes are a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

–       Proverbs: 21:4

·         Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. – Shakespeare

·          We are still able to grow as long as we are alive.