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Have a look at some favourite and inspirational quotes from the worlds famous peoples. I'm fairly sure that one or two will inspire you...

"There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need" - Evangeline Booth, 1919

Key words to human relations:

"Six most important words: I admit I made a mistake
Five most important words: I am proud of you
Four most important words: what is your opinion?
Three most important words: If you please
Two most important words: Thank you
One most important word: We
Least important word: I " --Anonymous

"My interest is in the future-because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there" -- Charles Kettering

"A little knowledge that acts is worth more than much knowledge that is idle" - Kahlil Gibran

"There is only one good, the right knowledge and only one evil, the illiteracy" -- Socrates

"Plans are nothing. Planning is everything." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We are faced then with a frightening alternative. The man we are talking about was (and is) just what he said or else a lunatic or something worse. Now it seems to me
obvious that he was neither a lunatic nor a fiend; and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that is was and is
God. God has landed on this enemy occupied world in human form.” -:- (C S. Lewis)

Love Him, and trust Him, follow Him with pains,
Not easily--the grace is for the strife;
And whatsoever trial He may lay
Upon thee, trust Him through it, and give thanks;
And when thy heart is heavy, think on Him,
And when thy need is greatest, call on Him.
Hold fast God's promise, and remember this--
Christ will not fail thee.                                     -:- (Catherine Booth)

“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”- (General William Booth)

Do you understand what I have done for you?" He asked them. "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord', and rightly so for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet, I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. - (John 13:12-14)

"I am learning not to be passionate about empty things, but to cultivate passion for justice, grace, truth, and communicate the ideal that Jesus likes people and even loves them." (Donald Miller)

"A nation is great not because of few people who are great, but because every one in the nation is great" - (Sri A.P.J Abdul Kalam)

Happiness keeps you sweet, trials keeps you strong, sorrow keeps you human, failure keeps you humble, success keeps you glowing, but God keeps you going. - (Arthur Ashe)

Faith is to believe what you do not see and the reward of the faith is to see what you believe - (St. Augustine)

 It will be necessary for us Indians- Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Parsis and all others to whom India is their whom- to recognize a common flag to live and die for" - (Mahatma Gandhi)

Inspired sayings by the founder and first General of the Salvation Army

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

I belong to the poor, my mission is to the poor, the poor are my people and I have given my heart to them.

We are salvation people this is our specialty getting saved and keeping saved and then getting somebody else saved.

Darling I have found my destiny.

Affection is the mainspring of sacrifice

True courage is independent of argument

Every hour and every power for Christ and duty

You can love your way through every difficulty

Idleness is start ruin, and the devil's own opportunity.

A stony-hearted preacher makes a stony hearty people

Prudence with many people is only another word for cowardice.

Anybody can believe when he feels-be a believer when you don't feel.

The devil's tunes are the only things be longing to him that are worth stealing

You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer, be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.

“You need no human ordination, no long and tedious preparation, no high-flown language, no towering eloquence: all you want is the full baptism of the Holy Spirit in your heart, the Bible in your hand, and humility and simplicity in your manner.” - (Catherine Booth)

'It is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with the theme."

By Blood and origin I am an Albanian.
My citizenship is Indian.
I am a Catholic nun.
As to my calling, I belong to the world.
As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus. - (Mother Theresa)

I have a dream that one day men will rise and come to see that they are made to live together as brothers. I still have a dream this morning that one day every Negro in this country, every colored person in the world, will be judged on the basis of the content of his character rather than on the color of skin, and every man will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. - (Martin Luther King)

People, who fail to pray, are prey to failure. People who fail to plan, plan to fail - (Major Chick Yuill)

God always answers. Sometimes He says no and other times not yet, but He always answers. - (Major Joy Emmons.)

Ask yourself; "Am I down in the flaming center of God? Have I come into the deeps where the soul meets with God and knows His love and power? Have I discovered God as a living Immediacy, a sweet Presence, and a stirring, life-renovating Power within me? - (Thomas R Kelly, The eternal Promise)

If God guides I can never be lost-not even if I am in a land I know not of. If all I do is as he directs, then there is no moment and no situation in which he cannot work for the furtherance of his redeeming purpose. - (General Frederick Coutts)

A new civilization is emerging… This new civilization brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, loving and living… Millions are already tuning their lives to the rhythms of tomorrow….The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes. - (Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave.)

To become Christlike is the only thing in the world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. - (Henry Drummond)

Nothing in this lost world bears the impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness. - (Alice Cary)

To save souls, grow saints, and serve suffering humanity." - (General John Gowans)

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"

"There was a certain magnificence about him which turned the lead of other men into gold." (Field Marshall Montgomery of Sir Winston Churchill)

We must be content with nice, respectable congregations, out of touch with the people we were sent to save - (General Albert Orsborn.)

Seeking souls is the Army's first work, every Salvatio9nists vocation, no matter what may be his earthly calling - (General Bramwell Booth)

"There are those who remember the things which they should forget and forget the things which they should remember."

"Shouldn't we leave the rat race to rats and stay with the human race instead?."

"If we want to have the wind of God behind us we must keep the will of God before us." (Commissioner Wesly Harrys)

Yet, in the maddening maze of things,
And tossed by storm and flood,
To one fixed trust my spirit clings;
I know that God is good!"

(John Greenleaf Whittier)

"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

"One of my high ideals ....is to remain indestructible in a perishable world"

"What is home without a child"

"When in doubt tell the truth"

"I have sampled this life" ................................... (Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens)

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self." (~Aristotle~)

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."

(H. W. Longfellow)

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. (Albert Schweitzer)

The present cultural upheaval from modernity to post modernity…. Will necessitate not merely the structural re-engineering of denominations but their death and resurrection. (Eddie Gibbs, Church Next)

"O Lord, please send someone else to do it" (Exodus 4:13)

Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. I have become its servant, by the commission God gave me (Colossians 1:24,25)

"I do not know what we would have done without The Salvation Army." - (A Chinese local government official in Meigu County.)

"Would there still be a place for the Salvation Army in India and Pakistan..? General Albert Orsborne asked India's New Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru:- He replied " Any one who has the welfare of the Indian people at the heart will be welcome amongst us and The Salvation Army has certainly proved itself in this connection"

Salvationists?: repudiating gaiety and courting effort and sacrifice, yet always in the wildest spirits, laughing, joking, singing, rejoicing, drumming, and tambourining: his life flying by in a flash of excitement, and his death arriving as a climax of triumph.

"The secret of being miserable is having the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." - George Bernard Shaw

IF I WONT TO SHAPE TOMORROW
THEN I NEED TO START TODAY
SEEKING LORD A REVELATION
OF YOUR WILL AND OF YOUR WAY
IF MY PASSIONS, PRAYERS AND LIFESTYLE
ARE THE WITNESS PEOPLE SEE
DO I NEED A REFORMATION
OF YOUR KINGDOM-LIFE IN ME?

"There is a threefold
ministry to which we
are called: the ministry
of service, the ministry
of sacrifice, and the
ministry of suffering."
(Ancient Prophets - Samuel Logan Brengle)

"Many-a sinner has played his way into Heaven on the trombone thanks to the (Salvation) Army!"
George Bernard Shaw, from "Major Barbara"

There are many who are interested in the cause of Christ, and who are pleased to see it prosper in their corps, their church, their city, their country. But there are few  who bear the burden of the world upon their souls day and night, who make His cause in every clime their very own, and who, like Eli, would die if the ark of God were taken; who feel it an awful shame and a consuming sorrow, if victory is not continually won in His name. (Samuel Logan Brengle)
 

"People who do not find God in prayer must hinder His cause instead of helping it" - (Samuel Logan Brengle Helps to Holiness)

In the gospel of Christ, as I have received it,
in the Spirit of my religion as I teach it,
may I ask that we all link hands in a solemn contract to press on.
We must go on. While there is a land to Christianize, we must go on.
While a lost girl wanders, we must go on.
While there is a city or a home without a Bible, we must go on.
Wherever the ship of life is in danger, there -
death or life - we must go on!
 (- Evangeline Booth)

"No matter how much we may labor, our toil will be unblessed by God if it is not hallowed by prayer"
-( Florence Booth The Powers of Salvation Army Soldiers)

"The early Army was on the march  because it was on its knees" - (Ted Palmer Marching On!)

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” - (Henry Ford)