Best Return Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“Often writers cast their words out prophetically, as a sorceress might cast a spell, and many times when the words return to you, enclosed between covers, your phantom is so fully fleshed out in its own persona, you don't recognize your own creation.”

Might Creation Return Casts Spells Persona Phantoms Sorceress

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.”

Form Levels Effort Awareness Emotional Return Damage Extras Exertion Tolls Extra Effort Diminishing Returns

Book:The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.”

People Ifs Remember Spirit Names Christ Water Week Return Promise Blessing Eternal Sacred Temples Commandments Sacraments Eternal Life Covenant Baptism

Author:Sheldon F. Child

“When money is once parted with, it can never return.”

Return

Author:Jane Austen

“Some of the parables that Matthew records and that Jesus delivered as part of his Olivet Discourse-such as the ten virgins and their lamps or the servants and the talents they were given-are some of the best known of Jesus' teachings. Reading them in the context of his prophecies about the end of the world, however, makes them clearly parables of preparation. To be on his right hand with his "sheep" rather than at his left hand with the "goats" at his return, we must prepare ourselves now.”

“The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.”

“The Lord does not want us to "miss supper." In fact, He has a great feast prepared for those who return clean and pure through the door.”

Want Doe Facts Lord Doors Missing Return Pure Clean Prepared Want U Supper

Author:M. Russell Ballard

“How very beautiful and consoling our faith is! For the little work we do here on earth it promises in return all the joys of assured happiness.”

Littles Earth Beautiful Joy Return Promise Assured Very Beautiful Consoling

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.”

Ifs Jesus Perfect Return Jesus Love Perfect Happiness

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Remember Purpose Order Parent Achieve Return Angel Accomplish Heavenly Serving God Legion

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.”

Mind States Knowing Awareness Return Absolutes Silent Stillness Abyss Identification Contractions

Author:Adyashanti

“One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.”

People Return Plenty

Book:The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition

Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition

“Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.”

Giving Years Helping Light Might Song Return Incredibles My Favorite Folks Magazines Tunes Shed Honored Appreciated Accompany Favorite Music

Author:Jon Foreman

“Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to pass a point of saturation and diminishing return.”

Use Seems Three Five Return Gallery Saturation Diminishing Returns Saturation Point

Author:Amy Webb

“Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.”

People Ifs Values Individual Building Return Exercise Brands Aspiration Compassionate

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.”

Leader Steps Player Fields Return Spring Very Good Good Leader Ganguly

Author:Ricky Ponting

“Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Spirit Sound Practice Return Holy Doctrine Holy Spirit Revival Reformation Sound Doctrine

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“When we have an understanding that the Lord is all powerful, then we know that we need to trust Him each and every day. This understanding allows us to lay our worries in the Lord's hands. In return, we can focus everything that we do into glorifying Jesus.”

Knows Needs Hands Jesus Understanding Powerful Lord Worry Focus Return Lays

Author:Tim Salmon

“But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.”

Ifs Risk Effects Security Events Return Miracle Regard Majority Theology Overwhelming Bargains Uniformity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.”

Giving Littles Government Return Waste Inequality Spheres Sponsors Criminality

Author:Doug Casey

“The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.”

Doe Girl Effort Return Amount Achievement Queens Factories Capitalist Providing Silk Stockings

Book:Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Source: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

“If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.”

Ifs Important Government Our Lives Return Politician Trade Fewer More Money

Author:John Stossel

“The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.”

Humans Reason Law Animal Return Species Cherish Educate Infant Laws Of Nature Piety Human Species Progeny Filial Filial Piety

Book:Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“When you treat people with massive respect and kindness, amazing to me how they return your respect and kindness 100X...even though you expected zero in return.”

People Kindness Return Treats Expected Massive Zero Respect And Kindness

Author:Robin Sharma

“What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?”

Want Mean Doe Justice Economic Produce Return Want Something Economic Justice

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.”

Ifs Art Government Force Pieces Fronts Building Return Ugly Our Society Sanity Metals Elites Twisted Pretentious Removal

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Onlookers frequently confuse edge with style...Edge means generating excess returns because of mispricing. Style suggests being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes edge and style overlap, sometimes they don't.”

Mean Sometimes Style Return Edges Excess Right Time Right Place

Author:Michael Mauboussin

“As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.”

Values Risk Century Theory Return Dollars Financial Fund Investors Quarters Clients Avoiding Bargains Compounds Financial Markets Inception High Risk Incurring Hedging

Author:Seth Klarman

“When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.”

Men Car Return Gas Tanks

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.”

Ifs Purpose Return Mediocrity Plugs Amplifiers

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“Turkey has in interest in finding agreement on more permissive visa requirements, it wants to be recognized as a safe country of origin and it wants to finally return to constructive EU accession negotiations. We Europeans decide all of those things together.”

Want Country Together Interest Return Safe Findings Agreement Requirements Negotiation Turkeys Constructive Visa

Author:Martin Schulz

“The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.”

Real Government Movement Return Solutions Investment University Spending Holes Regulation Bureaucracy Pseudo Return On Investment Occupy Movement Lethargic

Author:Mark Steyn

“Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Bigs Today America Opportunity Security Return Amount Right Now Credit British Significant Online Pounds Bubbles Currency Continuing Unlimited Floats Mortgage Erring

Author:Michael Burry

“It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.”

World Earth Grows Hell Return Rate Finite Hell On Earth

Author:Charlie Munger

“Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.”

People Ifs Needs Materials Return Dues Defense Silly Worried Goods Inflation

Author:Charlie Munger

“The big picture is: the main thing you should be concerned about in the future are incremental returns on capital going forward. As it turns out, past history of a good return on capital is a good proxy for this but obviously not foolproof. I think this is an area where thoughtful analysis can add value to any simple ranking/screening strategy such as the magic formula. When doing in depth analysis of companies, I care very much about long term earnings power, not necessarily so much about the volatility of that earnings power but about my certainty of "normal" earnings power over time.”

“My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.”

Years Wells Goal Levels Company Return Periods Normal Lows Factors Multiple Earning Persistent

Author:Joel Greenblatt

“Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.”

“At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst distress, public markets are more likely than private ones to offer attractive opportunities to average down.”

Opportunity Return Offers Equal Investment Average Superiors Attractive Distress Liquid

Author:Seth Klarman

“Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.”

“The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Matter Enough Views Return Periods Rate Entry Prevailing

Author:Seth Klarman

“Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but theorists went bonkers on the cost of equity capital. They say that if you're generating a 100% return on capital, then you shouldn't invest in something that generates an 80% return on capital. It's crazy.”

Ifs Courses Opportunity Easy Crazy Figures Keys Return Cost Including Consideration Equity Borrowing Theorists Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Ideas Whole Turns Courses Games Company Return Cost Awful Bullshit Earning

Author:Charlie Munger

“...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give you extra return just because you want it. You have to be very shrewd and hard working to get a little extra. It's so much easier to reduce your wants. There are a lot of smart people and a lot of them cheat, so it's not easy to win.”

People World Want Needs Giving Littles Has Beens Hard Play Hands Asks Winning Easy Hard Work Return Easier Smart Extras Cheat Smart People

Author:Charlie Munger

“We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.”

Ifs Opportunity Interest Willing Return Cost Rate Our Future Guessing Interest Rate Hurdle Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.”

Light Return Instruction

Book:Les miserables

Source: Les miserables

“Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.”

Humans Shows Care Passion Human Beings Kindness Nice Return Deserve Depth Passing Passings Being Nice Recognizing Courteous Expect Nothing

Author:Colin Powell

“Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.”

Want Made Sometimes Seems Return Music Is Shadow Powerless

Author:Claude Debussy

“There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.”

Humans Two Turns Given Sin Return Accounts Driven Paradise Impatience Cardinals Deviate Nonchalance

Author:Franz Kafka

“The law of Love is based on abundance; we are completely filled with Love all the time, and our supply is always full and running over. When we give our Love unconditionally to others with no expectations of return, the Love within us extends, expands, and joins. So by giving our Love away we increase the Love within us and everyone gains.”

Giving Running Law Love Is Return Expectations Gains Increase Filled Abundance Our Love Love Unconditionally

Book:Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition

Return Quotes

Related topics

Return Quotes