R.W. Erskine Quotes

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. Whereas the groanings of the righteous are but short, and their jubilee and triumph shall be everlasting.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

Love gives a sense of rest.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

The drums have hogged a lot of the credit. We're as much -- or more -- *cymbal* players, as we are drummers.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

Books are not like people. Books are safe.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.

I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.

I am not a politician.

You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.

Ignore and ignorance share the same root.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Life is a solitude.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!