Cardinals Quotes

• I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

  Martin Luther

  Integrity, Heart, Self

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Patience, Work

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• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

  Don Marquis

  Funny Inspirational, Business, Work

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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  Mao Zedong

  Leadership, Responsibility, Work Out

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• Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Sister, Brother, Humble

  Remarks from balcony at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 19 Apr. 2005

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• Anytime that the Arizona Cardinals play football, I scream at the top of my lungs at the television. And I have certain dances that I do.

  Blake Shelton

  Football, Play, Television

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• Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Rome, Giving

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• To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Change, Spiritual

  John Henry Newman (1845). “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”, p.39, CreateSpace

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• Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.

  George Pell

  People, Abortion, Abuse

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• We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Friends, Attitude

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.170, Aeterna Press

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• Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

  Henri de Lubac

  Powerful, Change Is Good, Routine

  Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.58, Ignatius Press

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Uprising, Done, Chance

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Errors, Phones, Editing

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• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

  David Attenborough

  Use, Facts, Opinion

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• Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

  Major Taylor

  Character, Athlete, Principles

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Stupidity, Literature

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• No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Men, Political, Politics

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• We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.

  Laurence Olivier

  Time, Kings, Politician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Unique, Decision

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

  Thomas Hobbes

  War, Two, Hype

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)

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• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Art, Department

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Literature, Virtue, Great Gatsby Book

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  Abbe Pierre

  War, Paris, Speaks Out

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