Francis Chan Quotes

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

Francis Chan

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• Knowing

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Opportunities

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• When I lived in Nashville, Tanya Tucker and people like that were coming up, and I'm sure that Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette were going, 'What's that noise? That's not country.' It's always been this battle where whoever comes up behind the reigning stars isn't country enough. There really is a lot more crossover now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Like
  • More
  • Knowing

• I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Power
  • Joy

• When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Win
  • Down
  • Battle

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• 'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Joy
  • Selfish

• 'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Time
  • Live
  • Earth

• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Live
  • May
  • Hope

• Doing art at Marlborough, where I went to school, was really quite tough, and I knew that it wasn't the direction I wanted to go. I'd rather show art and give people the joy of seeing it.

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • People
  • School
  • Art

• I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy, as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. One aspect of this is that rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Health

• Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Force
  • Knowing

• I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Challenge

• If we somehow could win a couple, our last 10 would be a very good record against top 20 teams. We have to keep grinding because that's what the Big Ten is about. We're playing against teams that beat us the first time, and we're trying to show we've improved by getting some of these guys on the way out.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Playing
  • Against
  • Beat

• For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

  

  Edith Tiempo
  • God
  • Arms
  • Accident

• I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Joy
  • Battle
  • Knowing