Bill Vaughan Quotes
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.
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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
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Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.
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Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
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The SPR is intended to provide relief at times when working families are struggling to make ends meet, and to counter the price shocks that accompany severe supply disruptions. Now is undoubtedly such a time.
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The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
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The politicians of New York...see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy
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Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.
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In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.