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“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”

“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.” William Carey

Man is born broken; he lives by mending. The Grace of God is the glue.

Eugene O’Neill

Always try to beat yourself, this will develop contentment in you and other people will also love you due to this virtue.

Love rules without rules.

Die geluk in jou lewe hang af van die kwaliteit van jou denke.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

True faith drops its letter in the post office box and lets it go.  Distrust holds on to a corner of it and wonders that the answer never comes.

B. Simpson

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven.

Giving is more a dictate of the heart than a command of the brain.

An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

Laugh at your mistakes and praise yourself for learning from them

“I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.” Jim Elliot

Let us see God before man every day.

Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Christ has turned all our sunsets into dawns. ~Clement of Alexandria

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

Success comes in cans, not in can’ts

If you do nothing, nothing will happen. If you do something, something will happen, but not necessarily what you intended.

Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver.

Carol Malia

“Today is Thursday. Or what I like to call on Friday, ‘yesterday.’”

Jimmy Fallon

Golden, Ripe, Boneless Bananas, 39 Cents A Pound.

Ad in the “Missoulian” by Orange Street Food Farm

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

“Some people say that one’s personality is reflected off of their car… Well, I have no car.”

Anon

“Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running.”

Ron Pickering

“It’s like their own personal equipment, like you have pens.”

General Syarwan Hamid of Indonasia, justifying why his soldiers carry loaded guns on the streets.

“Okay, everyone, now inhale… and then dehale!”

Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers captain, leading his teammates through warm-up calisthenics

A friend is someone who’s there when he needs you

Anon

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite”

Murray Walker, Sportscaster

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”

Robert McCloskey

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

“Danger Slow Men At Work”

Road sign in Brunei

If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed, and it will monitor their heart through the night, and the next morning, if they wake up dead, there’ll be a record.

Mark Fowlr

“I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad.”

Julian Wakefield, Missouri basketball player

“We didn’t lose, we weren’t beaten, we just came in second.”

U.S. commentators, after Canadian Donavon Bailey won the 100 metre gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau…

“Wonderful bargains for men with 16 and 17 necks.”

Sign in Men’s clothing store

“The FA are still optimistic about England’s bid to stage the World Cup in twenty thousand and six.”

Peter Snow, BBC2 anchorman