Jocelyn Murray Quotes

“Even coal shimmers in the light.”

“If you’re busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself.”

“It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.”

“Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness.”

“When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.”

“Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released.”

“Do not bother yourself with what ifs.”

“There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.”

“There is nothing in this life that is certain but death.”

“What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?”

“Desperation makes men fearless.”

“Even in prosperous times the living robbed the dead.”

“Hate engenders loneliness and despair.”

“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.”

“The heart’s capacity to love is infinite.”

“There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart.”

“All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship.”

“Life is like the sea. Its tides and currents sometimes take a man to distant shores that he never dreamed existed.”

“Life is the great teacher. An unforgiving task master at times. Its lessons are not easily forgotten.”

“Sometimes misfortune brings opportunity.”

“Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others.”

“Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings.”

“Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.”

“Some trees are too deeply rooted to move. And if they are uprooted, they will die.”

“There is no treasure like the human heart.”

“True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder.”

“What good is a secret if it remains a secret? Secrets are meant to be discovered.”

“What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?”

“It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.”

“It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.”