H.W. Charles Quotes

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses the other is the whispering of the higher self.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

I've developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.

Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.

The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ceasing Pray.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sleep.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Visualize "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.

The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.

Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with you will not do much.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.