O. Henry Quotes
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.
Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.
Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.