Search for quotes by keyword or author 

General Quotes

“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”
Joyce Meyer

“You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.”
Oprah Winfrey

“Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.”
Rick Warren

“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become.”
John C. Maxwell

“When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo Tolstoy

“What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?”
Ben Carson

“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
C.S. Lewis

“Apparently, then, our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off, to be on the inside of some door which we have always seen from the outside, is no mere neurotic fancy, but the truest index of our real situation. And to be at last summoned inside would be both glory and honour beyond all our merits and also the healing of that old ache.”
C.S. Lewis

“introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard”
Barack Obama

“Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.”
Nelson Mandela

“But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!”
C.S. Lewis

“I’m not going to complain,”
Joel Osteen

Submit a Quote

Make sure you have searched the entire quotes and the quote doesn't exist before adding as new quote!
Make sure you have an account and you are signed in before submitting a quote!

Popular tags


Contact Us


Send us a mail and we will get in touch with you soon!

You can email us at: contact@fancyread.com
Fancyread Inc.