Jesus Christ said: I will never send away anyone who comes to me. The Bible, John 6:37 (NIRV) - Quotations book 2022 The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) - he belonged to the Confessing Church - decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil...
We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his speech "The Birth of a New Age" at the fiftieth-anniversary convention banquet of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in Buffalo (August 11, 1956), published in...
Obedience to princes is a general compact of human society - how much more, then, ought we unhesitatingly to obey God, the Governor of all his creatures! Generale quippe pactum est societatis humanae oboedire regibus suis – quanto magis deo regnatori universae creaturae suae ad ea quae iusserit sine dubitatione serviendum est! Augustine of Hippo - known as Aurelius Augustinus, early Christian...
Prayer should never be an excuse for inaction. Nehemiah prayed but he also set guards for protection. Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom – Dutch writer, member of the resistance (1892-1983), from "Clippings from My Notebook" (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1982), Quotations book 2022
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, good companies survive them, great companies are improved by them. Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove - born András István Gróf, Hungarian-born American businessman, co-founder of Intel (1936-2016), in December 1994, quoted in "Creating the Digital Future: The Secrets of Consistent Innovation at Intel" (1998), Quotations book 2022
That there is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. Mahatma Gandhi - Indian politician (1869-1948), from his disputed newspaper article "The Puzzle and Its Solution" ("Young India", 15 December 1921), Quotations book 2022
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell - American general and politician, 2001-05 Secretary of state (1937-2021), Quotations book 2022
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Colin Powell - American general and politician, 2001-05 Secretary of state (1937-2021)
Encourage creative disruption: Random hostilities are not what the organization needs, but if nobody’s pissed off, maybe you’re not pushing hard enough. Dr. Oren Harari - American business professor at the University of San Francisco and author of several management books (1949-2010), from "The Powell Principles. 24 Lessons from Colin Powell, a Legendary Leader" (2002), Quotations book...
The same God who is orchestrating plans too marvelous for my mind to grasp is within my reach right now. Alicia Bruxvoort – American writer and motivational speaker (b. 1972), from the newspaper article "Respect His wisdom" ("Thomasville Times", 30. December 2020)
Do not treat God’s promises as if they were curiosities for a museum, but use them as everyday sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on. Charles Haddon Spurgeon - English Baptist pastor (1834-1892), from his sermon "The Child of Light Walking in Darkness" (September 25, 1887)
As in the case with marriage, business acquisitions often deliver surprise after the "I do’s". Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders (2016), Quotations book 2022
The best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and to just think. If that doesn’t work, nothing else is going to work. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from a Colloquium at the University of Florida (October 15, 1998), Quotations book 2022
Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from a magazine article ("Forbes", August 6, 1979)
Don’t pass up something that’s attractive today because you think you will find something better tomorrow. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from an interview with Becky Quick together with Bill Gates at Columbia University (November 12, 2009), Quotations book 2022
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. Ludwig von Mises - Austrian economist (1881-1973), from "Planned Chaos" (1947)
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Ἀλλ´ ἀπ´ ἐχθρῶν δῆτα πολλὰ μανθάνουσιν οἱ σοφοί. Aristophanes - Greek comic playwright (455-385 B.C.), from "The Birds", l. 375 ("Ὄρνιθες", 414 B.C.), Quotations book 2022
You have got to write the first sentence of a story so that whoever reads it will want to read the second one. William Faulkner - American writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1949 (1897-1962), from a from December 1951, published in Joseph Blotner (ed.): "Selected Letters of William Faulkner" (1976), Quotations book 2022