Karl Edwards presents Working Matters

Category: Quotes to Consider

  • Quote to Consider: Fighting to be Yourself

    quote-to-consider“to be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”

    e. e. cummings

  • Quote to Consider: The Difficult Curriculum of Courage

    quote-to-consider“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

    Barbara De Angelis

  • Quote to Consider: Self-Competition

    quote-to-consider“Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.”

    Charles M. Sheldon

  • Quote to Consider: Selfish or Unselfish?

    quote-to-consider“A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.”

    C.S. Lewis

  • Quote to Consider: Good Thing We’re Complex

    quote-to-consider“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.”

    Sigmund Freud

  • Quote to Consider: Success Beyond Reach

    quote-to-consider“Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.”

    John Stevenson

  • Quote to Consider: An Infinite Return on Investment

    quote-to-consider“Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.”

    Erastus Wiman

  • Quote to Consider: Merry Christmas!

    quote-to-considerO Holy Night!

    O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining 
    It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth. 
    Long lay the world in sin and error pining. 
    Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth. 
    A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, 
    For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. 
    Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! 
    O night divine, the night when Christ was born; 
    O night, O Holy Night , O night divine! 
    O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!

    Led by the light of faith serenely beaming, 
    With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand. 
    O’er the world a star is sweetly gleaming, 
    Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land. 
    The King of kings lay thus lowly manger; 
    In all our trials born to be our friends. 
    He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger, 
    Behold your King! Before him lowly bend! 
    Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!

    Truly He taught us to love one another, 
    His law is love and His gospel is peace. 
    Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother. 
    And in his name all oppression shall cease. 
    Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we, 
    With all our hearts we praise His holy name. 
    Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we, 
    His power and glory ever more proclaim! 
    His power and glory ever more proclaim!

    Adolphe Charles Adam

  • Quote to Consider: Caring in Principle Only

    quote-to-consider“The fact is that the possession of a highly social conscience about large-scale issues is no guarantee whatever of reasonable conduct in private relations.”

    Lewis Hastings

  • Quote to Consider: Hit Me Again

    quote-to-consider“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.”

    Thomas Szasz