Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Charles Spurgeon

We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

David Brainerd

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

William Shakespeare

Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises.

Agnes Repplier

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Nick Harkaway

Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.

Sidonie Gabrielle

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised

Billy Sunday

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Bill Kirby

Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement

Ariel Winter

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Conor McGregor

Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

Ludivine Sagnier

When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

Byron Dorgan

This is a very positive step for our farmers and ranchers who are coping with losses from weather-related disasters.

Chuck Palahniuk

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Sherri Shepherd

I've always had a quirky way of looking at things. It's my coping mechanism.

John P. Kotter

Leadership is about coping with change

Tessanne Chin

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. Its my coping mechanism.

Max Brooks

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

John Ridley

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

Michael Glover

We're not coping very well at all. The fact that it was during Christmastime is very hard.