Elca Quotes & Sayings

A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told. — Teresa Swift

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth. — Iyanla Vanzant

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to. — Keith Sweat

Hire as few of the best people available, pay them well, give them equity and autonomy in an ethical company and leave them alone. — Philip Beuth

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag. — Nadine Gordimer

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best. — Rob Bell

You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. — John Green

Even her beauty had sharp edges. Her long ebony hair was cut like a razor blade. Her face was strong and fine.But her eyes. A milky green, they betrayed an air of vulnerability she seemed desperate to hide. — Laura Oliva

Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages — Jean Paul

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country. — Bhumibol Adulyadej

The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. — Abu Bakar Bashir

After you've had Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as team-mates you don't give a **** who the next bloke is — Damon Hill