E.S. Russell Quotes

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I have respect for beer.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.

No one can stop what God has for you.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Be yourself and true to yourself. You can do different things in the world.

That's my motto. That's what I stand by. That's what I believe in. Just continue to tell yourself 'why not?' Continue to strive and make the right play to help your team win.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

God is good all the time. Every time.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

I had this urge to play the game of football because so many people said I couldn't do it.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

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