Dennis Rainey Quotes

#1. Initiative is at the heart of manhood

Dennis Rainey

#2. Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

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#3. I do not approach my life tactfully at all, i'm incredibly impulsive and I am definitely an intense weirdo. I love living and I love people. They trip me out and I want to know more about them all the time. That isn't something I can turn off and on.

Kristen Stewart

#4. The core of a man's life should be his relationship with God. The man who walks humbly with God is motivated and empowered to step up and assume the difficult responsibilitie s that come his way.

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#5. Far too many husbands fail to recognize that what your wife wants and needs most from you is your concern for her soul.

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#6. People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

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#7. She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Muriel Spark

#8. Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.

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#9. Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

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#10. Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

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#11. For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Theodore White

#12. The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

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#13. I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

Brian Helgeland

#14. Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

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#15. Scripture paints men as they really are, hiding none of their blemishes or barbaric ways. The honesty of scripture is one of the reasons I knew that the Bible would be the place to go to learn what a real man should be and do.

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#16. Male passivity is a disease that robs a man of his purpose while it destroys marriages, ruins families, and spoils legacies. A passive man doesn't engage; he retreats. He neglects personal responsibility. At its core, passivity is cowardice.

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#17. Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

Tatyana Ali

#18. To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Irwin Edman

#19. Too many of us are afraid to slow down because then we would have to take a good look at how we're using our time and what we're becoming. We don't want to listen to that other voice deep inside, telling us something is not right.

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#20. Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

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#21. The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated, and may decay away by insensible degrees.

David Hume

#22. Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

#23. An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

Veronica Roth

#24. Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.

Dennis Rainey