H.W. Charles Quotes

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Fear-filled words will defeat you, but faith-filled words will put you over!

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.

God is a lonely place without steak.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it

It is not necessary to teach others, to cure them or to improve them; it is only necessary to live among them, sharing the human condition and being present to them in love.

If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right

There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

as the spirit wanes the form appears

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

Creativity is great-but not in accounting.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

I didn't think too much of killing individual people. I use to think of killing the human race sometimes.

No man has the right to say to his country

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.