Quotes - Becky (Mrs_Skeet) (Delmar, MD) Showing 1-30 of 191

#1

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bravery, character, courage, moral-courage

1199 likes

#2

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
― John Wayne

tags: bravery, courage

781 likes

#3

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
― Marilyn Monroe

3233 likes

#4

“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”
― Ronald Reagan

89 likes

#5

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

tags: courage, inspirational, perseverance

394 likes

#6

“There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.”
― Sue Grafton, E is for Evidence

69 likes

#7

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars

1094 likes

#8

“There is a very great difference — is there not? — between the temporal and the eternal judgments, a very great difference between a man's reputation and a man's character, for reputation is what men think and say of us, while character is what God and the angels know of us.”
― Price Collier

tags: character

180 likes

#9

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
― Luciano De Crescenzo

72 likes

#10

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
― Dolly Parton

tags: inspirational

616 likes

#11

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.”
― Dolly Parton

tags: blonde-humor, confession

128 likes

#12

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: angels, generosity, guests, hospitality, inspirational, strangers

124 likes

#13

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92172 likes

#14

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16290 likes

#15

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

tags: books, truth

6037 likes

#16

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

8510 likes

#17

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

tags: beauty, life

24269 likes

#18

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

tags: bible, love

11482 likes

#19

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6785 likes

#20

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

tags: humour, politics, truth

3209 likes

#21

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17085 likes

#22

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: happy, honesty, life

2121 likes

#23

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

1120 likes

#24

“I am the way the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

135 likes

#25

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: truth, values

5343 likes

#26

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: honesty, lies, stories, truth

4163 likes

#27

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

11793 likes

#28

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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#29