Treasure Quotes - Page 20

• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age. Rather we should turn to those inner things - call them what you will - I mean those intangibles that are the real treasures free men possess. To preserve his freedom of worship, his equality before law, his liberty to speak and act as he sees fit, subject only to provisions that he trespass not upon similar rights of others - a Londoner will fight. So will a citizen of Abilene. When we consider these things, then the valley of the Thames draws closer to the farms of Kansas and the plains of Texas.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Real, Mean, Fighting

  "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

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• People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the consequences of their behaviour before acting, and to treasure their morals. As a result they are less prone to lie, cheat or behave immorally when they conduct a business deal or spot an opportunity to make money, studies suggest. They are also likely to make better employees because people who think less about the future results of their actions are more likely to be late, to steal or to be rude to clients.

  David D. Burns

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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• One of the great errors organizations make is shutting down what is a natural, life-enhancing process-chaos. We are terrified of chaos. As a manager, it signals failure. But if you move out of control and into an appreciation of natural order, you understand that the only way a system changes is when it is far from equilibrium, when it moves from the 'quiet' we treasure and is confronted with the choice to die or reorganize. And you can't reorganize to a higher level unless you risk the perils of the path through chaos.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Appreciation, Moving, Organization

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• I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Night, Men

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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• If you are a professional actor who has pride in his work, then the judgment of your peers should be important to you. I treasure each and every award I have ever received - and my Oscar is in a place of honor.

  Sophia Loren

  Pride, Awards, Honor

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• So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

  Steve Jobs

  Football, Player, Men

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• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.

  Isabel Allende

  Lying, Writing, Tired

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• Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.

  Anne Rice

  Men, Sea, Darkness

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.156, Ballantine Books

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• We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, Competition, Temples

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• I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity.

  Edward Kennedy

  America, Diversity, Democracy

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• The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shepherds, Desert, Substance

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• I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Memories, Heart, Two

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• My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Long, Heaven

  Dwight L Moody (1995). “Heaven”, p.88, Moody Publishers

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• You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Profound, Doubt

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• The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

  Matt Barr

  Boys, Hunters, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Epic, Race, Greatest Treasure

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• It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Order, Land, Intellectual

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• We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.

  Roy Lessin

  Beautiful, Jesus, Differences

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• It should be our chief study to treasure up the words of life that we may grow in grace and advance in the knowledge of God and become perfected in Christ Jesus, that we may receive a fullness and become heirs of God and joint heirs of Jesus Christ.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Jesus, Grace, May

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• As I look at my own precious children, I feel, like Joseph, that I have been entrusted with a great treasure. Recognizing that Joseph was a strong, responsible, and loving man who sought and received revelation to care for his family, I am inspired to emulate those qualities. In those moments, the gift I hope to give my Lord that year is to be more like Joseph the Carpenter.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Strong, Children, Men

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• He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

  Robert L. Millet

  Pain, Sacrifice, Bears

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• No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Rain, Gone, Likes

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• May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Home, School, Sound

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Many Christians dread the thought of leaving this world. Why? Because so many have stored up their treasures on earth, not in heaven. Each day brings us closer to death. If your treasures are on earth, that means each day brings you closer to losing your treasures.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Mean, Heaven

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.46, Multnomah

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