FastSaying

As society has shifted from an agrarian to an urban structure, the joy and necessity of diligent, hard work have been neglected.


Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always...
RAOUL VANEIGEM In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
SUNDAY ADELAJA I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou...
SAMUEL BECKETT Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
ZAHA HADID The building has incredible bone structure. It's just been neglected for so many years.
PETER WATSON Maine has an impeccable record of upholding our end of the settlement agreement. Our enforcement has...
ATTORNEY GENERAL STEVEN ROWE Iran has shifted its status from a defensive to an offensive position,
ALIREZA JAFARZADEH A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There ha...
CRISS JAMI Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN Go to an urban street corner or an unemployment line and it's been clear that the stakes (have alway...
RUSSLYNN ALI Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service,...
HA-JOON CHANG You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being ...
JULIE BENZ I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the...
WAYNE ROGERS Spam has shifted from basement amateurs to hard core criminal enterprises. True criminals have start...
CLAUDIA SARROCCO Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support o...
ROBERT DALLEK The worst areas have been picked up along the sound and beach. It's been an ongoing issue. There's s...
MILES ANDERSON The past four years have been filled with joy, sadness and hard work. Sometime we wanted to quit and...
BILL WALKER The Department of Energy is a big bureaucracy.... Energy efficiency hasn't been an agency priority, ...
KATHERINE KENNEDY The Department of Energy is a big bureaucracy ... energy efficiency hasn't been an agency priority, ...
KATHERINE KENNEDY Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
HUBERT HUMPHREY Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because ...
DANA PLATO Every technology the human society enjoying today is an intellectual effort and hard work of 19th & ...
DEVASKI The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as ...
CHARISMA CARPENTER The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness ac...
WILLIAM A. FOSTER “An orange that has been peeled knows both its external and internal structures. An orange that ha...
TYLER J. HEBERT Hip hop has reached well beyond its urban roots to diverse national dimensions and has been an integ...
BRENT GLASS Hard work speaks volume of self worth & commitment to work with energy & efficiency. One who has hab...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I don't believe anybody can be protected with high confidence from car bombs in urban areas. The Isr...
WILLIAM J. PERRY When you have nothing nobody knows you. When you have something everyone knows you. If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep. Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo...
CARL MATHIEU Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
NITIN S DHARKAR Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
PABLO D. RODRIGUEZ şarabın gazabından kork
çünkü fena kırmızıdır
kan tutar / tutan ölür
s...
ATTILâ İLHAN Closed doors present other opportunities!
E. L. MCDOWELL No child has ever been kidnapped from Disneyland. This is one of many Disneyland urban legends that ...
LESLIE LE MON It is impossible to be diligent and work hard and remain poor, success will come to the man who work...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Cycling has been neglected by local governments and as a result, the general populous has not been a...
LOREN MOONEY Properly handling petitions is an indispensable and irreplaceable job that should not be neglected i...
WANG GANG Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He has a heart to be competitive in the sport and he was diligent as far as technical aspects of ska...
GEORGE BABICZ Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of ne...
SAINT BASIL In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic aut...
LINCOLN KIRSTEIN It's been an intense process. It's been harrowing at times, but we've made it through and it's been ...
JACOB ALLEN We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The idea that chaos interferes with measurements in atomic-force microscopy has been sort of an urba...
ARVIND RAMAN “Years of diligent work have led to my overnight success”
JEFF KRANTZ That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me...
CHARLES BABBAGE The on-year rise in core CPI backs up our forecast of an exit from quantitative easing in April of n...
TOHRU SASAKI We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid b...
GUNTER GRASS My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come fr...
KATHERINE DUNHAM We have strived to be successful not only in the local communities, but as an entire corporation. It...
KAREN POWELL CEO Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
JOHN GREEN but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN El pasado es una historia lógica. Es el sentido de lo que sucedió. Pero como el futuro todavía no...
JOHN GREEN Kau bisa melihat masa depan kalau kau punya pemahaman dasar tentang bagaimana orang akan bersikap
JOHN GREEN Masa depan terbentang di hadapannya, tak terhindarkan namun tak kasat mata
JOHN GREEN And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absenc...
JOHN GREEN Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But ...
JOHN GREEN Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
JOHN GREEN En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in
time?” TERRY BISSON There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Kirsten is, and always has been, an incredibly hard worker. She has talent. But I think her work eth...
JULIE PARISIEN Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as h...
THOMAS MELLON God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my sup...
JOSIE LOREN It would have been one thing if it was an accident. This is hard to see as an accidental thing. It's...
LINDA BUSH A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; f...
CHARLES LYELL What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought ...
WALTER HILL For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house...
CATHLEEN SCHINE If you're diligent in keeping away from sin_ what an Excellent student you'll be!
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [...
SUSAN SONTAG The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
JEAN CHRETIEN The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Man...
ZAHA HADID The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
ETHEL WATERS As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted re...
BARTON GELLMAN When you STEPOUT, you will Stand out, when you stand out you will definitely be Noticed and when you...
OSCAR BIMPONG It's been an unbelievable season. These guys have been working as hard as any group I've had and it'...
JEFF EDDLEMAN PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban d...
AMBROSE BIERCE If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all you...
A. NEILEN Some of those people may have never thought of OU as an option before the Urban Scholars Program, .....
LINDA DANIELS My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will ...
STEFAN ZWEIG As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the far...
MICHAEL POLLAN

More Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Savior was selfless. He viewed himself and his own needs as secondary, and he ministered to othe...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the min...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN True love lasts forever.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickne...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the s...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There is no defeat except for those who give up.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Men and women who decide to flirt with adultery just once can become enmeshed in misery and unhappin...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the L...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquainta...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selfless...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn le...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grat...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationsh...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they lau...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, pl...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cau...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of t...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I loved my mission in Switzerland and Germany. As I left on the train from Basel, Switzerland, tears...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important s...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My own great-grandfather suffered so much from asthma that he had to walk a mile or two behind the c...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an ac...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gosp...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment o...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lo...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and hap...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-gi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to w...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. W...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year&...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilit...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives cou...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drain...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the ma...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There has always been discouragement, negativism, and temptation in the world because of Lucifer.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, thei...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with thos...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fast...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual d...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound i...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over th...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Godhead consists of three separate, distinct personages who are one in purpose. The Father and t...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Holy Ghost is a personage of Spirit: a separate and distinct member of the Godhead.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a th...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their languag...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsat...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they wi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Marathon runners set explicit goals.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire abou...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation,...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I beli...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that requi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I remember the first time I met my wife, Elisa. As a favor to a friend, I had gone to her home to pi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital i...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Lord Jesus Christ is our partner, helper and advocate.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Our bodies are truly the result of what we eat, what we think about, and the exercise we receive. If...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without h...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of the...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardle...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The gre...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their s...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I l...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don't expect per...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The Holy Ghost will warn us of danger, and it will inspire us to help others in need.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why m...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing al...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom c...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. A...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My problem is that this issue of romantic attraction between two men is being presented to my 7-year...
ROBIN WIRTHLIN I was concerned that I had not broached this topic with my young child yet and I was concerned that ...
ROBIN WIRTHLIN I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
B. B. KING