Reckoning Quotes

• Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

  Anthony Trollope

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32

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• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Memorable

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.121

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• What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

  Isaiah

  Running, Afar, Riches

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

  Brandon Mull

  Trying, Might

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• Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

  Donald Trump

  Civilization, America, World

  "A Look at Trump's Scorched Earth Campaign in the Home Stretch of the Election" by Meghan Keneally and Tom Liddy, abcnews.go.com. October 13, 2016.

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• There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

  Lorna Luft

  Our Lives

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

  Beck

  Years, Holocaust, Bells

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  Isaac Asimov

  Being Yourself, Reality, Believe In Yourself

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• People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic

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• Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Opportunity, Order

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• Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

  Richard Sibbes

  Sweet, Bitter, Sin

  Richard Sibbes (1837). “The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith”, p.206

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• We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Lying, Opportunity

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• You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

  Wilbur Ross

  Spending, Borrowing

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• My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

  Albert Gubay

  Belief

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• As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.

  Lee Iacocca

  Fate, Littles, Moments

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.

  Mary Oliver

  Character, Worry, Shining

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• Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, Blow, Air

  "Kristen Stewart defended by Jodie Foster" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Skills, Temptation

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• Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

  Arthur Miller

  Night, Parent, Crucible

  Arthur Miller (1957). “Arthur Miller's collected plays: with an introduction”, Viking Pr

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• Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.

  Omar Khayyam

  Morning, Dawn, Lasts

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “The Rubaʼiyat of Omar Khayyām: Being a Facsimile of the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with a Transcript Into Modern Persian Characters”

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• I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Gone, Moments, Notes

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The World And Other Places”, p.108, Random House

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• Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Envy, Perspective, Soul

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.45, Penguin

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• Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Peace, War

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.232, Algora Publishing

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• The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Spring, Flower, Fall

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.708

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• And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it.

  Abigail Williams

  Night, Witch Trials, Crucible

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