Elisabeth Elliot Quotes

If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.

Elisabeth Elliot

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• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  

  Major Taylor
  • My Own
  • Trail
  • Pioneer

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• Walt Disney grew up in Marceline, but almost every child has grown up with his beloved characters.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Child
  • Characters

• The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Night
  • Road
  • Anger

• Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Sad

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • World
  • Children

• I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.

  

  Lana Turner
  • People

• I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own cock. I'm not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I'm here to serve the country.

  

  Anthony Scaramucci
  • Country
  • Trying

• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• Che per amor venne in furore e matto,d'huom che si saggio era stimato prima.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Chaos

• I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.

  

  David Harewood
  • Travel

• The excitement of stepping onto a stage - there's nothing quite like it.

  

  Lindsay Duncan

• Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest, nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi. Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit, postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat.

  

  Plautus

• You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Control

• If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

  

  Peter T. King
  • Military

• Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Children

• Use the word cybernetics, Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  

  Claude Shannon
  • Word
  • Arguments
  • Cybernetics

• If you are married, then accept that. Accept the husband that God has given you. If you are single, accept your singleness and take it as if today was the last day of your life. Don't be looking constantly to the future.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Husband
  • Married