Charles Morgan
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved , it is God's finger on man's shoulder.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Discover More Quotes From Your Favorite Authors
The time is always right to do what is right.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
To know me is to love me.
Let us never be betrayed into saying we have finished our education because that would mean we had stopped growing.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Non !
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
My life is my message.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Okay, but I get to be on top.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Great men are not always wise.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Can miles truly separate you from friends. If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there ?
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
This too, shall pass.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Ideas... they have the power
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
If I had never met him, I would have dreamed him into being.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Love like there is no tomorrow.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
I'm the ghost with the most, babe.
Work is love made manifest.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Love is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.