Top 100 Lyman Quotes
#1. The little Lyman girl was the first time he'd slipped up in years.
S.K. Epperson
#2. Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.
Joe Coomer
#3. When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.
Eric Whitacre
#4. The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
Eddie Floyd
#5. In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
Benjamin F. Johnson
#6. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#7. No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
#8. If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
Lyman Abbott
#9. It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
Lyman Abbott
#10. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#11. Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#12. Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Lyman Bryson
#13. Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#14. Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.
Lyman Abbott
#17. No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
Lyman Abbott
#19. Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
Lyman Abbott
#20. If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
Lyman Abbott
#21. [Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
Lyman Beecher
#22. The next time you are imagining the worst, look up the definition of imagination.
Robert Lyman Baittie
#23. Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Lyman Trumbull
#24. You know that stuff about trusting your first instinct when you make a decision? They never say that to me. Taking meds to get along in school is pretty much a license for people to say, "Everyone follow your instincts, but not you.
Steve Lyman
#25. Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.
Lyman Abbott
#26. Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#27. Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
Lyman Abbott
#28. 1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.
Howard Lyman
#29. Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#30. Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#31. The brotherhood of man is an integral part of Christianity no less than the Fatherhood of God; and to deny the one is no less infidel than to deny the other.
Lyman Abbott
#32. Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.
Lyman Abbott
#33. We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Lyman Beecher
#34. My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.
Amy B. Lyman
#35. Veganism isn't just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.
Howard Lyman
#36. I believe that God is the Great Companion, that we are not left orphans, that we may have comradeship with him.
Lyman Abbott
#37. The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson
#38. The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#39. The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
Lyman Bryson
#40. A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
Francis M. Lyman
#41. If we're talking about healthcare lets talk about a healthy diet. If there is anything better in the world in dealing with a healthcare problem it's prevention! We CAN afford prevention!
Howard Lyman
#42. The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#43. If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.
Lyman Abbott
#44. You're starting to get old guy syndrome, Professor." "You mean because I sound like I long for a past that can never be regained?
John Lyman
#45. This is what evolution means
ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater
progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.
Lyman Abbott
#46. When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.
Francis M. Lyman
#47. Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.
Howard Lyman
#48. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#49. The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
Lyman Trumbull
#50. You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.
Lyman Abbott
#52. I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.
Francis M. Lyman
#53. It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
Lyman Abbott
#55. No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
D.L. Moody
#56. We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
Lyman Abbott
#57. Children ... will never go astray while they are in good company.
Francis M. Lyman
#58. The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#59. Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
John Lyman Chatfield
#60. True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#61. To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.
Howard Lyman
#62. Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#63. The woman had practiced patience all the long days of her life, exercised it to such an extent it had become the strongest muscle of her soul.
Lyman Hafen
#65. All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."
Lyman Abbott
#67. Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.
Lyman Abbott
#69. While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#70. I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Lyman Abbott
#71. A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott
#72. Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
#73. An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.
Howard Lyman
#74. Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#75. If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.
Howard Lyman
#77. The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
Lyman Abbott
#78. Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#79. You can't change yesterdays, but you can change tomorrows.
Howard Lyman
#80. The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#81. For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?
Howard Lyman
#82. A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.
Lyman Abbott
#83. I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
Lyman Abbott
#84. Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
Lyman Abbott
#85. God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.
Lyman Abbott
#87. Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
#88. Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#89. Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.
Lyman Abbott
#90. The highest qualities of character ... must be earned.
Lyman Abbott
#91. Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
Lyman Abbott
#92. He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#93. The artist does not really create; he discovers.
Lyman Abbott
#94. Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
Lyman Abbott
#95. The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#96. I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
Lyman Abbott
#97. We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.
Ray Lyman Wilbur
#98. Do what you can do, as well as you can do, every day of your life, and you will end up being one of the happiest individuals.
Howard Lyman
#99. It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.
Lyman Abbott
#100. A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.
Lyman Abbott
