O. Henry Quotes
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
The early church didn’t say, ‘Look what the world is coming to!’ They said, ‘Look what has come into the world’!
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.