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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Schopenhauer

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

Shel Silverstein

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Stephen Covey

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Vauvenargues

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Viscount Samuel

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

Voltaire

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

Welsh proverb

Talent perceives differences, Genius unity.

William Butler Yeats

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Woody Allen

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Billy Sunday

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrents.

Goethe

1396. Tell Me A Story

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Terry Ann Knopf

Don Hewitt, creator of "60 Minutes," on his special talent as a journalist: My philosophy is simple. It's what little kids say to their parents: "Tell me a story." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that when you deal with issues, you tell stories. The issue was evil; the story was Noah. I've had producers say, " ...

1397. Seeking Joy

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Instead of trying to force the anxiety away, replace your worry with thoughts focused on God’s goodness. Bethany Hamilton began surfing as a child, and she believed that God was calling her to a career as a professional surfer. And there was no doubt she had the talent. At one time, she was ranked as the #1 amateur teen surfer in Hawaii where they know a thing or two about surfing. But at age 13, Bethany was attacked by a tiger shark while on her surfboard. She survived the attack but lost her left arm ...

1398. The Old, Old Story

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... week, we talked about the first of what we call “kingdom” parables of Jesus: the parable of the ten bridesmaids. This week, we are looking at the second of those parables: what we call the parable of the bags of gold or multiplication of the talents. Jesus is not speaking these particular parables to a mass of people. Jesus is speaking this time directly to his own disciples. He had begun with them according to Matthew by showing them the Temple and predicting its fall. Afterward, he described a time in ...

1399. Cherish the Moment

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... your identity. Actor Denzel Washington shares a story from motivational speaker Les Brown about the power of taking action when an opportunity arises. Brown says to picture yourself on your deathbed. You are surrounded by the ghosts of wasted potential. Gifts and talents and opportunities that you never acted on. And those ghosts surrounding your bed are angry. They are disappointed because their presence has been wasted on you. All that potential—wasted! And they glare down at you and say, “We came to ...

1400. The Museum of Failed Products

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s story is our story. Even at our best, we are not all God created us to be. That is why one of the words in the scripture for sin is hamartia, missing the mark. None of us utilizes all of our potential, all of our ability, all of our talent in a constructive manner all the days of our life. We are not the mothers we ought to be, the fathers we ought to be, the citizens we ought to be, the church member we ought to be, the minister we ought to be, the soldiers of Christ we ought ...

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Showing 1376 to 1400 of 1453 results

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Schopenhauer

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

Shel Silverstein

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton

Sophia Loren

Stephen Covey

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Sydney Smith

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Vauvenargues

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Viscount Samuel

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

Voltaire

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.

Welsh proverb

Talent perceives differences, Genius unity.

William Butler Yeats

What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

William Carlos Williams

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

William Hazlitt

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

William Matthews

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Woody Allen

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Billy Sunday

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrents.

Goethe

1396. Tell Me A Story