E.S. Russell Quotes
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.
Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."
Always persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life
The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.
Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.
Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.
I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.