A.C. Benson Quotes

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Since man created government to help secure and safeguard [inalienable] rights [from God], it follows that man is superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

The mind and body communicate constantly. What the mind thinks, perceives, and experiences is sent from our brain to the rest of the body.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress... and the opposite of the fight or flight response.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

I have little need to remind you that water has become one of our major national concerns.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

The greatest teacher is just going out and playing.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.

Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

A well begun is half ended.