“A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business and you know what you are doing, you don’t need very many of them.”
Preach the truth as it is in Jesus. Not a righteousness or inward holiness of our own, whereby we may make ourselves meet, but a righteousness of another, even the Lord our righteousness
—George Whitefield
Don’t force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
—Plato
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right; Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
—John Milton
The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.
—Heraclitus
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of ones own.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.
—Carl Jung
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
—Charles Dickens
What fortune has made yours is not your own.
—Seneca
Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
—Thomas Aquinas
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
—Aristotle
He cannot, at one and the same time, follow his own will, and follow the will of God: He must choose the one or the other; denying God’s will, to follow his own; or denying himself, to follow the will of God.
—John Wesley
There is no limit to God’s power. That is the great mistake with men; they are always limiting God’s power by their own.
—D. L. Moody
I would a thousand times rather that God’s will should be done than my own.
—D. L. Moody
What lies within you is far more vital for your happiness than what you own.
—Leo Tolstoy
Remember that the same spirit that lives in you lives in every other person, and therefore don’t just love but honor as holy the soul of every person as much as your own.
—Leo Tolstoy
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.
Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky