O. Henry Quotes

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

We lighten the loads of others best by helping the Lord strengthen them.

Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

The seas are the hearts blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of earth's veins.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

Favorite People, Favorite Places, Favorite Memories of the past ... These are the joys of a lifetime Those are the things that last

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

What do I owe my father? Everything!

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!