 One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| It's not the having, it's the getting. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| Sympathy is no substitute for action. Author: David Livingstone |
| Fear God and work hard. Author: David Livingstone |
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| It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. Author: Francis Bacon |
| While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things. Author: Francis de Sales |
| Little opportunities should be improved. Author: Francois Fenelon |
| I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition. Author: Francois Fenelon |
| It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. Author: George Macdonald |
