William Arthur Ward Quotes

Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

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• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Past
  • Prison
  • Embrace

• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Success
  • Strong

• Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Science
  • Way

• Prayer is an effort of will.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Effort
  • Prayer
  • Will

• THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Heart
  • Hearts
  • Buried

• The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Great
  • God
  • True

• I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Matters

• That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Truth
  • Doe
  • Accepting

• She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Weakness
  • Charm

• The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • World
  • May
  • Purpose

• Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

  

  S. Parkes
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Heaven

• Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Today
  • Night
  • Giving

• Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.

  

  Israel Broussard
  • Dreams
  • Entertainment
  • Landed

• O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Girl
  • Earth
  • Alone

• By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Spirit
  • Child

• Over the course of more than 200 years, it has found a right to equal education regardless of race. It has guaranteed an attorney and a fair trial to all Americans, rich and poor alike. It has allowed women to keep private medical decisions private. And it has allowed Americans to speak, vote and worship without interference from their government.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Decision
  • Speak
  • Rich

• Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!

  

  Charles le Gai Eaton
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Moral

• Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
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