"Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world."

-- Noah Porter

#Inspirational Quotes #Art Quotes #Determination Quotes

“Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.”

Source : Henry Watson Fowler (1994). “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions
“I don't believe in paying full price for clothing.”
“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”
“And there was some trouble with Oliver Cowdery, and whisper said it was relating to a girl then living in his family; and I was afterwards told by Warren Parish, that he himself and Oliver Cowdery did not that Joseph had Fannie Alger as wife, for they were spied upon and found together. And I can now see that at Nauvoo, so at Kirtland, that the suspicion or knowledge of the Prophet's plural relation was one of the causes of apostasy and disruption at Kirtland, although at the time there was little said publicly on the subject.”
“We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.”
“Desire is the putting of my will into Godâ€™s concern. Itâ€™s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, Iâ€™m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' Thatâ€™s willingness all right. But God doesnâ€™t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.”
“The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
“True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain”

Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.223, Moody Publishers

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