Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Honesty
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Attitude
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Vision, Optimism, Attitude
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Tears
If you’re running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you’re trying to master a new language, try it won word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you’ll find that no job is all that intimidating.
All it takes is discipline—daily discipline, not annual discipline.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Discipline
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Family
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Compromise
Stand still… and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Difficulty, Difficulties
Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.
—Chuck Swindoll
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Attention
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Vision, Attitude
With vision there is no room to be frightened., No reason for intimidation. It’s time to march forward! Let’s be confident and positive!.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Vision
Don’t be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Helping
Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don’t fly. Eagles don’t swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don’t have feathers. Stop comparing. There’s plenty of room in the forest.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Family, Tolerance
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Joy, Friendship
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the The Past education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Change, Attitude
Alleged “impossibilities” are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Possibilities
When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Vision, Prophecy
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.
—Chuck Swindoll
Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Willpower, Commitment, Dedication
If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it’s time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Simplicity
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
—Chuck Swindoll
Topics: Excellence, Thinking
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- John C. Maxwell American Christian Professional Speaker
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- Charles Sheldon American Christian Minister
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- Lewis B. Smedes American Christian Theologian
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