Venduto Quotes & Sayings

We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people. — Hal Elrod

When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't. — Shannon L. Alder

In the approach to virtue there are many steps. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. — Socrates

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are. — Merle Miller

God made you as you are on purpose. He gave you your looks, your height, your skin color, your nose, your personality. Nothing about you is by accident. You didn't get overlooked. You didn't get left out. God calls you His masterpiece. Instead of going around feeling down on yourself, unattractive, too tall, too short, not enough of this, or too much of that, dare to get up in the morning and say, I am a masterpiece. I am created in the image of Almighty God. — Joel Osteen

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude. — Viktor E. Frankl

It's not greed and ambition that makes wars
it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity. — Paddy Chayefsky

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones. — Dharma Mittra

I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing. — Ian McKellen

The sun shines even on the wicked. — Seneca The Younger