Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Model
  • Company

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Too Much

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• Any woman that you're in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It's actually easier to focus, in some ways.

  

  Kanye West
  • Energy
  • Focus

• If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Diet
  • Foods

• Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Soul

• All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Children
  • Said
  • Loved

• Doubt is one of the main paths on the highway to failure.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Failure
  • Doubt
  • Main Paths

• All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

  

  Plato
  • Fate
  • All Things
  • Decreed

• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Humility

• It's a strange game, ... as the Scottish people say.

  

  Gary Player
  • People
  • Game
  • Scottish

• The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • God
  • Desire

• I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.

  

  Josh Lawson
  • Fan
  • Showtime

• Can I choose to undergo the greatest suffering rather than commit the least sin?

  

  Philip Henry
  • Suffering
  • Sin
  • Choose

• Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

  

  Peter Orszag
  • Activity
  • Budget
  • Deficit

• In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Glory
  • Activity
  • Reward