QUOTABLE QUOTES SALT+LIGHT

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

SALT+LIGHT’S

QUOTABLE Quotes

Inspiration for Living Intentionally

QUOTABLE QUOTES SALT+LIGHT

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Dear Salt+Light blog readers,

Can you believe we are quickly approaching the

end of 2012? This year has been a great year for the

Salt+Light blog. On June 2012, the Salt+Light blog

was birthed with a specific mission – a mission to

enable readers to become the salt and light of this

world through equipping with ideas on people,

growth, leadership, and the Christian life. Since

then, more than 19,000 have visited Salt+Light.

Staying true to the spirit of giving in Christmas, I’d

like to share a small gift with you as a token of my

appreciation. Many of your comments, feedback

and questions have been of inestimable value,

reaffirming my conviction for blogging.

Isaac D’Israeli said, “The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved

by quotation.” Here, I present you with Salt+Light’s 1st Annual Quotable Quotes. As an

avid collector of quotations, I’ve been thoroughly inspired and positively challenged by

lives of great men. I hope this could have the same effect for you so that you may be

profoundly inspired to live your life with intentionality. That is, to live your life today as if

God intends you to live tomorrow.

As you prepare to embrace 2013 with open arms, take time to reflect on these key

quotations from time to time. Consider this your pit stop for inspiration, encouragement,

and guideline for you to live intentionally. The following quotations are categorized under

27 key topics that pertain to living with intentionality.

Thank you for being part of the Salt+Light family. May your 2013 be filled with His love,

grace, and blessings.

Sincerely,

Paul Sohn

E-mail: paul.j.sohn@gmail.com

Blog: www.paulsohn.org

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/saltpluslight

QUOTABLE QUOTES SALT+LIGHT

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Attitude “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy

or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important

than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than

failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than

appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable

thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot

change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change

the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I

am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you...

we are in charge of our Attitudes.” – Charles Swindoll

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjusts my sails to always reach my destination.” –

Jimmy Dean

“Attitude, not aptitude, determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill

Authenticity “You cannot be anything you want to be but you can be a lot more of who you already are.” – Tom

Rath

“Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a man has.” - Hubert Humphrey

“You have to believe in yourself. The ones who believe in themselves the most are the ones who win.”

– Florence Griffth-Joyner, winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics

“So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in and

what kind of car we drive…If you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the

Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.” – Linda Henley

“What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.” –

M.K. Gandhi

Books (Reading) “A novel is never anything but philosophy put into images.” – Albert Camus

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot

learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler

“A library is a hospital of the mind.” – Anonymous

“ ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.” - Mark Twain

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that

is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be

read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” – Francis Bacon

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency--

the belief that the here and now is all there is.” - Allan Bloom

Calling (Purpose) “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – Williams Shedd

“The secret to success is consistency of purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, you will flounder on

the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.”-

William Lane Craig

"The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger

meet."

- Frederick Buechner

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can

his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”

– Viktor Frankl

“Make your life a mission – not an intermission” – Anonymous

Change “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – M.K Gandhi

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I

can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And

so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is

bent. “– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the

last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has

been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly

while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an

ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” – C. S. Lewis

Character “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."— St. Francis of Assisi

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."—

Abraham Lincoln

"Character is what you are in the dark."- D.L. Moody

“True character is what we are when nobody’s looking, in the secret chambers of the heart.” --

Anonymous

“All children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on

the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – John Bartlett

Nothing stands the test like solid character. You can handle the blast (of adversity) like a steer in a

blizzard. The ice may form on your horns, but you keep standing against the wind and the howling,

raging storm because Christ is at work in your spirit. Character will always win the day. As Horace

Greeley wrote: “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character

endures.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” –

Ann Landers

“The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the

behavior it prevents.” – Christian Medical Society Journal

“A gentleman is one who considers the rights of others before his own feelings of others before his

own rights…You should care more about your character than your reputation.” – john Wooten

“Promises must be kept, deadlines met, commitments honored, not for the sake of morality, but

because we become what we do or fail to do. Character is the sum of all that.” – Howard Sparks

“You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats those who can do nothing for him.” –

Anonymous

“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends upon what you are

made of.” – James S. Hewett

Christianity “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it

I see everything else.” ― C.S. Lewis

“Like a jewel’s brilliance is displayed on a black cloth, Jesus’ love is displayed against the blackness of

sin, and the filth of the flesh.” – Anonymous

The Irish evangelist Gypsy Smith once said, “There are five Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the

Christian, and some people will never read the first four.” In other words, the message is seen before it is

heard.

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left

untried.” – G.K Chesterton

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good

because He loves us.” ― C.S. Lewis

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Communication "Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."— Benjamin Disraeli

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning

and the lightning bug."— Mark Twain

“It takes two to speak the truth. One to speak and another to listen.” – Henry Thoreau

“Electronic communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul

encourages another person to be brave and true.” – Charles Dickens.

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker

Dream “All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake

in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamer of the day are dangerous men, for they may act

their dream with open eyes and make it possible.” – T.E. Lawrence

“No dreamer is too small; not dream is too big.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put

foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake,

when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you

feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” – James Arthur Baldwin

Discipline “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you

never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that

enabled us to follow through.” – Zig Ziglar

“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves, self-

discipline with all of them came first.” – Harry S. Truman

“Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak

and esteem to all.” – George Washington

Excellence “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that

will unlock the door to personal excellence.” -- Confucius

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the

hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

”If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence

is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” ― Charles R. Swindoll

Failure “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capte

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please

everybody all the time.” – Herbert Sergie

“I haven’t failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t’ work.” – Thomas Edison

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” – Paulo Coelho

Goal “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field

and never score.” – Bill Copeland

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low

and we reach it." - Michelangelo

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C. S. Lewis

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” –

Jimmy Dean

God We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the others, the moon and the sun, how

they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” – Mother Teresa

“Expect great things from God; Attempt great things for God” – William Carey

“If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania,

the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh

Heffner.”- Malcolm Muggeridge

Greatness “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor

Roosevelt

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

“Good is the enemy of great.” – Jim Collins

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious

choice, and discipline” – Jim Collins

Growth (Learning) “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein

“Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.” W.R. Lage

“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” – Ray Kroc

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to

reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in

another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.

The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are

made up of layers, cells, constellations.” ― Anaïs Nin

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” – Doug Firebaugh

“Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until t

he world will be sorry that you retire.” – Samuel Johnson

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take away from him. an investment in

knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

Hard Work “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc

“Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

– Colin Powell

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted

to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And

that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

Humility “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of

himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

“Humility is not about thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” – C.S Lewis

“The only hope of decreasing self is an increasing Christ.” – F.B. Meyer

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

"[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes"— Spencer W. Kimball

Influence “The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been

influenced by what you said” - C.S. Lewis

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success

or failure in the mind of another.” -Napoleon Hill

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through

your own life, and what you've become yourself.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen

Intentional Living “The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and

his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation his love and his religion. He

hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does,

leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he’s always doing both. “ – James

A. Michener.

“And in the end, it’s not the years in the life that counts. It’s the life in the years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of

talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”” – Erma Bombeck

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” – 2 Timothy 4:7

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the

ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in

your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which

is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out

your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve

Jobs

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on” – Robert Frost

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Leadership “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a

leader.” –John Quincy Adams

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define realty; the last is to say thank you. In between, the

leader is a servant.” – Max Depree

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do

it."— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt

to offer a solution everybody can understand."— General Colin Powell

"Leadership is intentional influence."— Michael McKinney

"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a

common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."— General Montgomery

"We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we

can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead." —William

Arthur Ward

“A leader is a dealer in hope” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Remember, the difference between a boss and a leader…A boss says “Go.” A leader says, “Let’s go.”

– Anonymous

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there

already.” – John Buchan

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.” – Isaac

Newton

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

People “You can design and create, and built the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to

make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney

“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will

never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelon

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally

they are the same people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

Potential "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."— Ralph Waldo

Emerson

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your

contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ― William Faulkner

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. ― Winston

Churchill

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function

and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ― Bruce

Lee

Success “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” – Proverbs 16:3

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with

people.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not

need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a

carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.” – A.W. Tozer

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plan to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11

Talent “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.” –

John Wooden

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” ― Arthur

Schopenhauer

“Abilities are like tax deductions, we use them or we lose them.” – Sam Jennings

“Between the great things we can’t do and the little things we won’t do, the danger is we shall do

nothing at all.” – Anonymous

Thinking "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

whatever is gracious ... think about these things."— Philippians 4:8

QUOTABLE QUOTES SALT+LIGHT

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation”. – Isaac D'Israeli

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” ― Voltaire

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark

Twain

Truth “The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.” –

Cicero

“Truth, of course, must be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”- G.K.

Chesterton

"The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it; ignorance may deride; but in the end there it is." -

Winston Churchill

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”—Winston

Churchill

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only

Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” – John 1:14