Al Murray Quotes

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Life is a game, and it's much more fun if you play it as your own game, so stay light and loose and relaxed.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

An Atheists loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist thinks that heaven is something for which we should work for now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Be available for life to happen.

Remember also, the present is your only time to be saved. There is no believing, no repenting, no conversion in the grave---no minister will speak to you there. This is the time of conversion.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

I dreamt I was forced to eat 25lb of marshmallows. When I woke up, my pillow was missing.

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

[Andrea De Cesaris is] the man who has won more Grands Prix than anybody else in the history of Grand Prix racing without actually winning one of them.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

Ukyo Katayama is undoubtedly the best Formula One driver that Grand Prix racing has ever produced

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

You work, you get paid, you drink.

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.