Terry Waite famous quotes

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
-- Terry Waite

#Inspirational #Winning #Compassion

If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the health of Society, it is also vital for our personal well-being. Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. It does more harm to those that hold it than to those whom it is held against.
-- Terry Waite

#Cancer #People #Soul

The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
-- Terry Waite

#Practice #Light #Trying

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you
-- Terry Waite

#Love #Family #Happiness

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
-- Terry Waite

#Together #Exit #Pieces

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
-- Terry Waite

#Justice #Wheels #Sometimes

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.