Sunburn Quotes

The believer's ray of light is the cynic's sunburn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Cynical Religion

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard

It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono

I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

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

The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great talents are the most lovely
and often the most dangerous
fruits on the tree of humanity.
They hang upon the most slender twigs
that are easily snapped off.
- Carl Jung

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being is the great explainer.
- Henry David Thoreau

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden

Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher

The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous

There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie