Affirmd Quotes & Sayings

Talent without tact is only half talent. — Horace Greeley

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made. — Andy Stanley

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. — Arthur Golden

Be the symbol of love to feel the joy of life. — Debasish Mridha

I finally placed where the images in my morning dream might have come from - the Battle of Shiloh in the Civil War. Thousands of young soldiers lay dead on the battleground in a peach orchard in full bloom. It was said that the blossoms fell upon them, covering them like a thin layer of fragrant snow. I wondered why I had dreamed that, but then again, why do we dream about anything? — Patti Smith

I've always had an underdog perspective. — Jason Reitman

Yet we choose to remember history very selectively, favoring foresight over failure. — Thomas Rid

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth. — Henry David Thoreau

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build. — Christie Hefner

This life is but a pilgrimage. — Horace Walpole

Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony De Mello

As we day by day receive grace from Jesus, and more constantly recognize it as coming from Him, we shall behold Him in communion with us, and enjoy the felicity of communion with Him. Let us make daily use of our riches, and ever repair to Him as to our own Lord in covenant, taking from Him the supply of all we need with as much boldness as men take money from their own purse. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand. — Dorothy Parker

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop them from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either. I know myself well enough to know that no one else can keep you awake or keep you from sleeping. — Jennifer Niven