Jeremy > Jeremy's Quotes

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“ليس الشديد بالصرعة؛ إنما الشديد الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب
The strong person is not the good wrestler. Rather,the strong person is the one who controls himself when he is angry.
(Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 73, #135)”
― Anonymous

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
― Mark Twain

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you."

The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?"

The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

“the courage to die is the test of the courage to be.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.”
― Noel Jones, Vow of Prosperity

“people demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Noel Jones, Vow of Prosperity

“too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.”
― Noel Jones, Vow of Prosperity

“We have confidence in GOD and in the Divine Plan, and are content.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“There is no liberty to him who feels himself limited by the want of the Dollar.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“There can be no liberty to him who feels the slavery of debt.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“The slave is slave because he does not know his power.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it’s not that what the minister says is wrong. It’s that it is just too small.”
― Fred B. Craddock, Craddock on the Craft of Preaching

“Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.”
― Fred B. Craddock, Craddock on the Craft of Preaching

“If the stories of our faith are such that you’re too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.”
― Fred B. Craddock, Craddock on the Craft of Preaching

“man clings to the mother-hand of the past, till he can think and act alone.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“since God is infinite, I am to trust His infinity to manifest today that which the day needs.”
― Henry Harrison Brown, DOLLARS WANT ME & THE CALL OF THE XXTH CENTURY (Annotated)

“There is an obligation to give, an obligation to receive, and an obligation to repay.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“we are trained from childhood to chafe, emotionally, under the saddle of obligation.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“once a person’s self-image is altered, all sorts of subtle advantages become available to someone who wants to exploit that new image.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Since 95 percent of the people are imitators and only 5 percent initiators, people are persuaded more by the actions of others than by any proof we can offer.”
― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion