CM. Ward Quotes

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.

Make what you most need to find

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

It's well known that I play aggressively. When I'm not doing that, I'm not doing my job.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

Real optimism is exposed to the worst but expects the best.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.