S.A. David Quotes

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future.

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

If you learn to respond as if it’s the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

Before they read words, children are reading pictures.

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

The impossible I do immediately, miracles take a little longer

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

Our missionary activities are only authentic insofar as they reflect participation in the mission of God.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.

When we give our lives to Jesus Christ, the things of earth grow strangely dim. The values of eternity grow increasingly bright.

In the kingdom of God there are no second-class citizens.

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.

I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.