(51 quotes found)
“Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.”
Tryon Edwards
“Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny”
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.”
“The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all”
“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.”
“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”
“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic”
“He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error”
“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”
