I.B. George Quotes

Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

Perseverance is persistent insistence.

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

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A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

Coffee first. Save the world later.

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

Vision is the secret behind a life of passion, it motivates people to go through life with force

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Only the innocent know the peace of untroubled sleep. Confess sins, and you will sleep like a newborn babe.

I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.

Do not judge me for the many things I do, but rather judge yourself for that which you do not.

It is our thoughts, actions and reactions that manifest our future.

My greatness shall never be measured by my actions or accomplishments, but rather by those of my son's guided by my teachings.

Pain reminds us that we are alive and breathing, that we still have the strength within to fight

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

When a dog goes bad, the fault lies with his master.

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

But first on earth as vampire sentThy corpse shall from its tomb be rentThen gastly haunt thy native placeAnd suck the blood of all thy race

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That's the only tine a man can be brave.

Strike hard and true, crow, or I'll come back and haunt you.

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.

I love not man the less, but nature more

the basic principle of capitalism: that the penalties (losses) no less than the rewards (profits) of risk taking shall go to those who embark on a productive venture.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Live today as if eternity with Christ will begin today.

The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.

Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served.

Christ alone makes possible everything you are and can be as a Christian.