M. J. Rose Quotes

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a brand - I wanted to be a spokesperson and to collaborate.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

I think good things come to good people.

How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.

I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.

I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly.

Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.

I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

I am very gender-fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

I wont ever put myself in a bad position so that people can say bad things about me. I make smart decisions, and my friends and my family, they are all there for the right reason.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.