R.S. Thomas Quotes
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
