Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

Don't ask for respect. Earn it.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a malady titled, 'Artistic Temperament'... rudeness, excuses, slovenliness, laziness, clutter, addictions, non-commercial attitudes, un-professionalism... and a good reason for failure.

I'm going to be involved with freedom; I'm going to be involved in the marketplace; I'm going to be involved in the accountability in schools.

Whilst I'm here, I'll always do the best I can.

I stay in my lane of assignment and do what I'm supposed to do in life.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.