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

• Be faithful in the little things.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Faithful

• It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Advantage
  • Command
  • Contempt

• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • War
  • Glory
  • Surviving

• Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.

  

  Zenkei Shibayama
  • Flower
  • Glory
  • Blossom

• Ain't no glory made from being dependable.

  

  Esi Edugyan
  • Glory
  • Dependable

• 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