Thomas Brooks Quotes

After victory, tighten your helmet chord.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

Great success is a great temptation.

In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne. The days of the far-off future would toil onward, still with the same burden for her to take up, and bear along with her, but never to fling down; for the accumulating days, and added years, would pile up their misery upon the heap of shame.

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

When the devil drives, needs must.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

I'm like a bumper car. When I did an infomercial I was fodder for every TV comedy show. I couldn't get a job. People said I was a huge joke. I've been a joke so many times. I've been on my way out since I started, but I'm strong-willed. My mother is so much tougher than I am and my grandmother is so much tougher than my mother.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

I always felt it is not good if you feel like you would know how to do something. I've made mistakes of telling people: I know how to do this. And it should feel dangerous. That is the only way to stay alert, to keep the adrenaline running.