May Quotes - Page 19

• You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouraging, Quitting, Breakthrough

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Equality, Rights

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Lying, Years, Experience

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

  C. S. Lewis

  Food, Science, Half

  Christian Reflections Para. 22 (p. 111)

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• However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

  Forgiveness, Majesty, Sin

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• It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Murder

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• Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Heart, Giving

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• We are to forgive so that we may enjoy God's goodness without feeling the weight of anger burning deep within our hearts. Forgiveness does not mean we recant the fact that what happened to us was wrong. Instead, we roll our burdens onto the Lord and allow Him to carry them for us.

  Charles Stanley

  Forgiveness, Heart, Mean

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Landmines in the Path of the Believer: Avoiding the Hidden Dangers”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Destiny, America

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• Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Agency, Government

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• Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.113

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• The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Law, Essence

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.49, VM eBooks

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• In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Freedom, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Freedom, Democracy, Progress

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• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Democracy, Limits

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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• Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

  Tacitus

  Freedom, Thinking, Wish

  "Annales", I. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

  Edward Everett

  Freedom, War, Long

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

  Mark Twain

  God, Heaven, Praying

  Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.29, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  J. I. Packer

  God, Character, Men

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• I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Graduation, Believe, Memorable

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Graduation, Inspiration, Forever

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