EVERGREEN WORDS: WORDS FOREVER ON MARBLE

EVERGREEN WORDS: WORDS FOREVER ON MARBLE

Getting the response that I did on my post titled QUOTES THAT SHAPE MY LIFE EVERYDAY motivated me to bring up other words on marble that never fade in meaning and never fail in inspiration.

These words are evergreen:


ON ACTION

-         Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. – Thomas Edison

-         A man has got to do what a man has got to do. – American saying

-         Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford

-         God, save us from hotheads who lead us to act foolishly, and from cold feet that would keep us from acting at all. – Peter Marshall

-         We are all actors in our chosen fields of endeavor, and are best actors when we are top in those fields. – Ola Barnabas

-         The thing to do when all else fails, is again. Giving it another try is better than an alibi. – Anonymous

-         Did is a word of achievement
Won’t is a word of retreat
Might is a word of bereavement
Can’t is a word of defeat
Ought is a word of duty
Try is a word of each hour
Will is a word of beauty
Can is a word of power

-         Whether you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right. – Henry Ford

-         The world is full of Wills who won’t, and Cans who can’t. – Ola Barnabas



ON DEATH

-         I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens. –Woody Allen

-         I hate death; in fact I could live forever without it. – Pogo

-         I’m too busy, I don’t have time for dying. – Ingvar Kamprad

-         Man looking at obituaries: “Strange, isn’t it, how everyone seems to die in alphabetical order?”

-         For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. – Paul the Apostle

-         You could tell, perhaps, how people lived in life by how they look at death. – Ola Barnabas

-         Death to some is an end, to some is an enigma, and to others an entrance. – Matthew Ashimolowo

-         Everyone has two lives to live, the first determines the other. – Ola Barnabas

-         No matter what you pray, your life after death will be longer. – Ola Barnabas

-         As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-spent brings happy death. – Leonardo da Vinci



ON LIFE

-         Behold I have set before you, blessing and cursing…life and death, but choose ye life… - Joshua, the leader of Israel

-         Live each day as if it were your last – someday you’ll be right. – Anonymous

-         The trouble with life is that, it’s so daily. – Anonymous

-         Between birth and death is a short dash. That’s your chance at life. Choose what to do with it. – Ola Barnabas

-         The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James

-         The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

-         At death, we will find that we spent more time with things that matter the least in life. – Ola Barnabas

-         Not only does life begin at forty, it begins to show. – Anonymous

-         Life is fragile, handle with prayer. – Anonymous

-         Excuses – the only reason why some people never use life well. – Ola Barnabas

-         Life is what happens when you are making other plans. - Anonymous



ON PRAYER

-         He who is praying without working, is playing without knowing. – David Oyedepo

-         Man is never so tall as when he kneels before God – never so great as when he humbles himself before God. And the man who kneels to God can stand up to anything. – Louis Evans

-         Pray without ceasing. – Paul the Apostle

-         Prayer doesn’t get man’s will done in heaven; it gets God’s will done one earth. – Ronald Dunn

-         The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes. – Martin Luther

-         Mom: What are you doing?
Child: Praying
Mom: But I can’t hear what you are saying
Child: That’s because I was not talking to you

-         Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else. – George David Stewart

-         Prayer is not learnt in the classroom but in the closet. – E.M. Bounds

-         It’s a good idea to tune your instruments by prayer before the concert of the day begins. – Anonymous

-         Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man, and inhaling the spirit of God. – Edwin Keith



ON AGING

-         Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained by living a godly life. – King Solomon

-         Age occurs when you find yourself using one bend-over to pick up two things. – Anonymous

-         The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. – Chinese proverb

-         The ten best years of a woman’s life are between the ages of twenty-nine and thirty. – Peter Weiss

-         Gray hair, very pleasing to have when you have every other thing, but annoying otherwise. – Ola Barnabas

-         Forty is the old age of the youth, and fifty is the youth of old age. – Anonymous

-         To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard Baruch

-         Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Satchel Paige

-         You’re an old-timer if you remember when castor oil and camphor were the miracle drugs. – Anonymous

-         Life gets more enjoyable the older you get. The hardest years in life are between ten and seventy. – Helen Hayes



ON CHOICE

-         One of life’s difficult choices is picking the supermarket checkout line that will move the fastest. – Anonymous

-         No one learns to make right decisions without being free to make wrong ones. – Anonymous

-         He who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides. – Henri Frederic Amiel

-         Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – Don Marquis

-         Choice, not change, determines human destiny. – Anonymous

-         No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. – Michel de Montaigne

-         What appears to be patience may be simply the inability to make a decision. – Anonymous

-         Choice is the strongest principle of growth. – George Elliot

-         The power of choice must involve the possibility of error – that is the essence of choosing. – Herbert L. Samuel

-         No choice is also a choice. – Jewish proverb

-         An individual chooses and makes himself. – Jean-Paul Sartre

-         There’s a small choice in rotten apples. – William Shakespeare

-         Making decisions is simple: get the facts; seek God’s guidance; form a judgment; act on it; worry no more. – Charles E. Bennett

-         My only difficulty is to choose or reject. – A.P. Gouthey

-         You don’t know if you should do it? I’m aware. You said that five years ago. – Ola Barnabas


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