“Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them. You are strong and you are brave. There is a nobility of spirit within you. Let it grow — you will do well enough.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

Terry Brooks (1944) American writer

“Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"”
Non confundant opera tua sermonem tuum: ne cum in Ecclesia loqueris, tacitus quilibet respondeat, cur ergo haec quae dicis, ipse non facis?

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

“You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

“It's a measure of treasure that gives me the pleasure
Of loving you the way I do
And you know I would gladly say I need your love badly
And bring these little things to you.
Cause you got gold
Gold inside of you
You got gold
Gold inside of you
Well I got some Gold inside me too”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own.”

Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians

“People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

“Calvin: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism