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Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
John C. Maxwell

Good, Best, Learn

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Bob Marley

Saying, Down, Everyday

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami Vivekananda

Greatest, Soul, Others

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Strong, Often, Silent

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Bob Marley

Music, Fool, Facts

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Done, Cannot, Interrupt

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost

Nothing, Saying, Keep

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Health, Learning, Rather

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Sorry, Angry, Nothing

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

Faith, Time, Everything

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain

Old, Her, Bring

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, History, Government

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Gods, Neighbor

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W. Clement Stone

Life, Truth, Courage

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

Good, Night, Sweet

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing, Reality, Others

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus Christ

Love, Good, Rain

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

Life, God, Help

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

Injustice, Appreciate, Side

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Power, Person, Tell

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Government, Law

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Attention, Older

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Politics, Nothing

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon

Help, Someone, Notice

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Money, Hope, Down

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Once, Happens

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Talking

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Men, Wise, Adversity

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance, Darkness

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