Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
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Champions have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
