Yisroel Salanter Quotes

#1. There is no greater illness than discouragement!

Yisroel Salanter

#2. There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Hosea Ballou

#3. The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#4. Promote yourself, but do not demote another.

Yisroel Salanter

#5. A boy with bad thoughts needs to be visiting a haunted house like he needs arsenic in his mouthwash.

Stephen King

#6. The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves.

David Vann

#7. The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.

Steph Jagger

#8. Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#9. Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.

Yisroel Salanter

#10. There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.

Yisroel Salanter

#11. Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

Yisroel Salanter

#12. I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. In the past, radiation treatment planning has been a very lengthy procedure. Now, with the aid of CT therapy-planning computer programs, we can position the therapy beams automatically with precision in a few minutes.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#14. To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

Yisroel Salanter

#15. Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

Yisroel Salanter

#16. He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#17. Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

Yisroel Salanter

#18. The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

Ed Markey

#19. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Charles Dickens

#20. In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

Delia Smith