Top 40 Quotes of 2024

 “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” Fred Rogers

 

“You are more than just a sign in your front yard. You are my neighbor.” Andy Gullahorn, David Heller and Jennifer Heller (lyrics from the song “Neighbor”)

 

"Truth discovered is ten times more valuable than truth given." Dale Stephenson

 

“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” Abraham Heschel

 

“Hospitality is the opposite of xenophobia. It is the love of the stranger, not the hate or fear of the ‘other.’ It’s the act of welcoming the outsider in and, in doing so, turning guests into neighbors and neighbors into family in God.” John Mark Comer

 

“Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves” Tasneern Harneed

 

"When the expectations aren’t met, disappointment follows. The more significant the expectations, the more significant the disappointment." Kathryn Scanland

 

"20 years from now, the only people who will remember that you worked late are your kids." David Clarke

 

“Knowledge isn't free, you have to pay attention.” Richard Feynman

 

“We need effort to find patterns. We need humility to accept the chaos.” Seth Godin

 

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.” Warren Buffett

 

“If there is no wind, row.” Attributed to Virgil

 

“…we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.” Oswald Chambers

 

“Be curious, out loud.” Audrey McGee

 

“You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.” Will Rogers

 

“To become the teacher of what you have learned is an act of abundant love toward everyone in your life.” Arthur Brooks

 

“It is the artist’s vocation to surprise us into remembering that the ordinary elements of our messy, material lives are gifts.” Marilyn McEntyre

 

“We are saved, not from the world but for the world.” NT Wright

 

"You can't know who you are unless you know how to tell your story." David Brooks

 

"You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past." Bob Iger

 

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton

 

“Poverty is the most visible face of injustice.” Ruth Padilla DeBorst

 

“Never outsource what you enjoy.” James Clear

 

“Creativity is thinking new things. Innovation is doing new things." Theodore Levitt

 

“Some things done faithfully this week will be better understood next week. Be faithful this week.” Gen. Loren Reno

 

“To collaborate intergenerationally is to commit to the possibility of producing an outcome greater than what one generation could produce alone.” Ravil Mashanlo

 

“True innovation isn't about reinventing the wheel—it's about understanding what the wheel means to those who use it.” Stuart Severino

 

"Trust is your belief in my integrity, my ability, my reliability, my strength, and that I will tell you the truth when any of those things are lacking." Rob McKenna

 

“Here is a crucial turning point in our transition from assuming scarcity to seeing the potentials of abundance. It consists in the simple but rare act of looking at what we already have, at the gifts and resources that are immediately available to us.” Parker J. Palmer

 

“Unlimited text generation isn’t just a tool; it is a test. A test of our ethical boundaries.” Madeleine Lambert

 

“Jesus is not a recruiter for WeWork, calling us to ‘hustle harder,’ but the good shepherd of Psalm 23, calling us to ‘lie down in green pastures.’” John Mark Comer

 

“The stamp is the smallest contract in the world.” Roma Downey

 

“What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance…Trust is earned by expressing humility, not by asserting authority.” Adam Grant

 

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” Khalil Gibran

 

“The word 'ending' speaks of closure and finality. However, if you add the letter 's' the meaning changes. Ending becomes sending.” Dean Carlson

 

“The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.” St. Francis of Assisi

 

"Stories are as important as numbers, because stories tell us what the numbers mean." Jim Haney

 

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” Jimmy Carter

 

“Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.” Oswald Chambers

 

“Long-term interpersonal relationships are the crucible of genuine progress in the Christian life. People who stay also grow. People who leave do not grow.” Joseph Hellerman

 

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