Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship – and all of them – with hardly any effort or regard for life at all. “How’s that message coming?”“Umm – they must be jamming us, sir – I can’t get through.

Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world.

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.

We need to regard every problem or situation as an opportunity to be triumphant and celebrate the victory of Jesus in our lives

A true friend does not make you win by making you the winner to the detriment of the true winner. He makes sure that you become a loser, not because he likes the way you fail, but to enlighten you on how it feels to be treated that way and to demonstrate that love and respect are not exclusive.

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.

Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

Gratitude is a powerful trait.

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is Not To Regard The Perception Of Others

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both – that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy. In the case of arate, the direction of the "because" can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized.

But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.