O. Henry Quotes
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.
It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.
Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.
Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships.
The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.
Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.
Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.