Friday Quote Collection | Food for Weekend Thought July 27th

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Friday Quote Collection July 27th, 2012
FRIDAY'S QUOTATIONS - "Food For Weekend Thought" Assembled by R. VARGA

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"The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery."
- Ralph Hodgson

"No one has ever become poor by giving."
- Anne Frank

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
- Adam Smith

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
- Colin Powell

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
- Jeremiah 29:11

"I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way."
- Lee Iacocca

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
- Zig Ziglar

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."
- Melody Beattie

"I never said most of the things I said."
- Yogi Berra

"Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for things and are impatient with anything that refuses to give an account of itself. The philosopher and the scientist will admit that there is much that they do not know; but that is quite another thing from admitting there is something which they can never know, which indeed they have no technique for discovering."
- A. W. Tozer

"I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you."
- Dr. Seuss

"You don’t have problems to fix; you have directions that need to change."
- Andy Stanley

"The 7 Modern Sins: Politics without principles, Pleasures without conscience, Wealth without work, Knowledge without character, Industry without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice."
- Canon Frederic Donaldson

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
- Henry Ford

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
- Simone Weil

"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older."
- Randy Pausch

"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them."
- Brock Clarke

"Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself."
- T. S. Eliot