C Toni Graham Quotes

Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic ... you! As soon as you let doubt creep in
you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow. ~ C.Toni Graham

Temptation requires definite, decisive action. ~ Billy Graham

The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally these societies degenerate into savagery. ~ Paul Graham

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability.
Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen. ~ Shiv Khera

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us. ~ Billy Graham

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. ~ Julie Burchill

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch. ~ Graham Norton

Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness. ~ Billy Graham

It hurts to leave a light on for nobody. ~ Graham Foust

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman. ~ Katharine Graham

You're going to declare a rest period?' asked Jerott. Leisure, with Gabriel there, seemed too good to be true.

'Rumour being what it is, I imagine it will have declared itself by now,' Lymond said. 'Yes. We shall take three days from our labours to relax. Provided Sir Graham understands that by midday tomorrow St Mary's will be empty and all the men at arms and half the officers whoring in Peebles.' In the half-dark you could guess at Gabriel's smile.

'Do you think I don't know human nature?' he said. 'They are bound by no vows. But as they learn to respect you, they will do as you do.'

'That's what we're all afraid of,' said Jerott; and there was a ripple of laughter and a flash of amusement, he saw, from Lymond himself. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Children, pray for the salvation of your parents. ~ Billy Graham

I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings. ~ Billy Graham

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity. ~ Billy Graham

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations ... ~ Toni Morrison

WHAT is your name? WHAT is your quest? and WHAT is your favorite color? ~ Graham Chapman

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got
and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage. ~ Ruth Bell Graham

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries. ~ Toni Collette

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves. ~ Graham Phillips

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them. ~ Heather Graham

I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life. ~ Graham Yost

If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it's with our aging parents. ~ Billy Graham

Don't beg anybody for anything, especially love. ~ Toni Morrison

I love Martha's Vineyard, where I have had a house for thirty years. I have loved visiting countries around the world. But I always come home to Washington. ~ Katharine Graham

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies. ~ Paul Graham

... got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost. ~ Billy Graham

With Christ as your Savior and constant Companion, you, although alone, need never be lonely. ~ Billy Graham

The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone? ~ Graham Greene

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once. ~ Graham Nelson

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior. ~ Billy Graham

He would have achieved victory and rebellion at the same time. ~ Graham Moore

Her color is a cross she will always carry. ~ Toni Morrison

It's my hurt, my pain, and who are you to take it from me? I don't need rescuing, I don't need pity, I don't need opinions, I need fucking
and maybe a little spanking for indulging my anger. ~ Toni Bentley

Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man. ~ Billy Graham

Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, "Here lies ... ," but on Christ's tomb are emblazoned the words, "He is not here. ~ Billy Graham

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you. ~ Billy Graham

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them. ~ Billy Graham

I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long. ~ Billy Graham

The body never lies. ~ Martha Graham

Of all the lists I've made of goals, and all the visions I've had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans. ~ Lauren Graham

God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation. ~ Billy Graham

D. felt a little envious of him as he stood there in the yard among the cars - he looked established. Five hundred years of inbreeding had produced him, set him against an exact background, made him at home, and at the same a time haunted - by the vices of ancestors and the tastes of the past. ~ Graham Greene

If we want a miracle, we've got to surrender all our faith. ~ Toni Sorenson

Christmas isn't a date on a calendar, it's a feeling in the heart. ~ Toni Sorenson