P.J. Gordon Quotes

Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.

Don't be amazed. There is nothing strange about eight white men being alone and therefore helpless.

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaffBelieve a woman or an epitaphOr any other thing that’s falseBefore you trust in critics.

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

all the existentialists concur that it is through our choices that we become who we are.

That stage in life when older people assume that just because you've graduated college you know who you are, or what you're doing, and in fact most people don't.

It's telepathy, over.

It’s the person who likes to pat dogs to whom dogs come for pats.

Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue - the sky

I’ve known a boy. I’ve measured beauty. What more do I want?

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

Are you full of the Holy Spirit? Then you will be full of mercy, kindness and love.

After you died I realized thatI never really like hunting.I just like hanging out with you.

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

The quickest methods aren't always the fastest methods

Each of you is a daughter of God. Reflect on all the wondrous meaning of that one paramount fact.

Yeah, save the idiots in government, definitely a priority. He didn't say it out loud, though.

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Love is not blind - it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less.

To be somebody you must last.

Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

To get it right be born with luck or else make it.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.

In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.