J.R. Ward Quotes
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.
The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
I’m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don’t mind people, but I’d prefer not to have a lot of them around.
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception.
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give