Emmons Quotes

#1. Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. - NATHANIEL EMMONS

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#2. A big endorsement deal would be awesome.

Matt Emmons

#3. Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Nathanael Emmons

#4. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

Nathanael Emmons

#5. One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

Matt Emmons

#6. Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading.

Nathanael Emmons

#7. Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Nathanael Emmons

#8. In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

Nathanael Emmons

#9. These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Nathanael Emmons

#10. Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Nathanael Emmons

#11. Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

Nathanael Emmons

#12. Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.

Nathanael Emmons

#13. I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

Matt Emmons

#14. The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Nathanael Emmons

#15. There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Nathanael Emmons

#16. I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

Nathanael Emmons

#17. The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.

Nathanael Emmons

#18. You move because you are built for movement, because your heartbeat and respiration are involuntary. Though you feel the part of you that is always dying, the rest moves forward, squeezed between destiny and choice

Cai Emmons

#19. It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

Matt Emmons

#20. You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Matt Emmons

#21. Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

#22. Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Matt Emmons

#23. There is nothing wrong with my mind.

Matt Emmons

#24. Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.

Nathanael Emmons

#25. Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Nathanael Emmons

#26. Engaged, yet detached. Active, yet calm. Moving, yet still. This is how it is to be awake in the world.

Henry Emmons

#27. You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Nathanael Emmons

#28. How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Nathanael Emmons

#29. One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Nathanael Emmons

#30. Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

Nathanael Emmons

#31. Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.

Nathanael Emmons

#32. The Bible says that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons to the seventh generation. But I believe it's the daughters who bear the brunt of most family sins. At least that's so in my family.

Sherri Wood Emmons

#33. In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

Matt Emmons

#34. I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

Matt Emmons

#35. Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Nathanael Emmons

#36. Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

Nathanael Emmons