A.J. Russell Quotes

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

I say, 'Why not' to everything.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.

I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

Needing nothing attracts everything.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll.

I like a man who can run faster than I can.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Inner peace comes only as we maintain the integrity of truth in all aspects of our lives.

If you live like it’s the past and you behave like it’s the past, then guys from the future find it very hard to see you.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

Imagine what you will be, and it will be so.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.

Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

Act by inspiration, motivated by love.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Dream big dreams,because little dreams have no magic.~Dork Diaries

All forms of fear produce fatigue.