Quotes

And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
-1 Samuel 16:23

You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth
-Deuteronomy 8:18

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
-John Bunyan

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
-Thomas Jefferson

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.
-Proverbs 13:22

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
-Socrates

“Many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.”
-Thomas Sowell

“Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.”
-Aesop

“Paper is poverty, that it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
-George Orwell

By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
-Ezekiel 28:4

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
-Nikola Tesla

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors
by the records of history?”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control, and some things are not.”
-Epictetus

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
-Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
-Epictetus

“Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted counts.”
-Albert Einstein

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
-Franz Kafka

“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
-Abraham Lincoln

“There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
-Seneca

“Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems.”
-Sun Tzu

“Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
-Louis Pasteur

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
-Mark Twain

“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
-Proverbs 22:7

“The secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep.”
-Kenny Rogers, ‘The Gambler’

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
-George Bernard Shaw

“The reason most people fail rather than succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want now.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte

“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”
-Norm Franz.

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
-Bertrand Russell

“If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.”
-Confucius

“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
-Ron Paul

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
-Benjamin Franklin

“Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.”
-Virgil

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
-Henry Ford

Too many people emphasize the importance of a college degree. You can find learning experiences anywhere, you just have to be willing to look.

“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”
-Mark Twain