Life Only Avails Quotes & Sayings

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. — Jose Marti

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What avails it that indulgent Heaven
From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven. — John Armstrong

Children learn what they live.
If a child lives with criticism ... he learns to condemn.
If he lives with hostility ... he learns to fight.
If he lives with ridicule ... he learns to be shy.
If he lives with shame ... he learns to be guilty.
If he lives with tolerance ... he learns confidence.
If he lives with praise ... he learns to appreciate.
If he lives with fairness ... he learns about justice — Dorothy Nolte

I remembered a piece of sisterly advice, which Feely once gave Daffy and me:
"If ever you're accosted by a man," she'd said, "kick him in the Casanovas and run like blue blazes!"
Although it had sounded at the time like a useful bit of intelligence, the only problem was that I didn't know where the Casanovas were located.
I'd have to think of something else. — Alan Bradley

Life only avails, not the having lived. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. — W. Somerset Maugham

In the life of the Christian, it is one of the deepest lessons that he has to learn, that the Word without the living God avails little; that the blessing of the Word comes when it brings us to the living God; that the Word that we get from the mouth of God brings the power to know it and to do it. Let us learn the lesson: personal fellowship with God in secret alone can make the word to be life and power. — Andrew Murray

We may not make sure that the Lord will at once remove all disease from those we love, but we may know that believing prayer for the sick is far more likely to be followed by restoration than anything else in the world; and where this avails not, we must meekly bow to His will by whom life and death are determined. The tender heart of Jesus waits to hear our griefs, let us pour them into His patient ear. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep. — Alexander Pope

The bats inebriate the sky . . . — A.E. Stallings

I feel like a crumpled up piece of paper that has something really important written on it. But no one will ever know what that is because all they see is something that's been discarded. — Samantha Young

The place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there. — Marsden Hartley

It takes time to save time. — Joe Taylor

Being a superhero is hard work. You have to save the world. But going to school is even harder. You have to save yourself. — Lenore Look

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black. — Ben Shahn