E.S. Russell Quotes

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him.

Inspiration comes only to those who seek it with humility toward their own achievements and reverence toward the achievements of God.

Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

The game will tell you what to do on the floor, and that's what I try to do.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won't say. It's like Donald Trump.

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

A person's strength is to know their weaknesses.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

By listening to your higher self, or Atman, you can return to the truth that's already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love.

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

Truth, covenants, and ordinances enable us to overcome fear and face the future with faith.

I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.