sgiovanni’s most recent Quotables

"You are what you pretend to be, so be careful about who you pretend to be.", from

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people, what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Work as if everything depends on you, and pray as if everything depends on God.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.


Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.

In life, there are only results and excuses.

My inner self was a house divided against itself. The mind gives an order to the body and it is at once obeyed, but when it gives an order to itself, it is resisted. What is the cause? the mind orders itself to make an act of will and it would not give the order unless it willed to do so; yet it does not carry out its own command.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs, who comes short again and again, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.