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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character. John Ortberg
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough. David Packard
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. Marcus Aurelius
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. Viktor E. Frankl
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox
If someone asks a stupid question, you can only give a stupid answer or appear arrogant. Cillian Murphy
My students often ask me, ‘What is sociology?’ And I tell them, ‘It’s the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don’t see.’ Sam Richards
I’m a gangster, and gangsters don’t ask questions. Lil Wayne
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Thomas Sowell
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper
My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. Steven Wright
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? Scott Adams
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. J. Robert Oppenheimer
I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later. Mitch Hedberg
Whenever people ask me: ‘Why didn’t you get up when the bus driver asked you?’ I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail. Claudette Colvin
Oh, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We’ve already got the stars. Bette Davis
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can’t afford it. J. P. Morgan
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. Chanakya
I have to ask Allah’s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. Abdul Qadeer Khan
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy. Spike Milligan
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. Jackie Robinson
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Barack Obama
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first. Kurt Cobain
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause. Homer
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Stevie Wonder
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. Bernard Meltzer
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. George Mason
Always do everything you ask of those you command. George S. Patton
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’ Erwin Chargaff
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt
The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ Sydney J. Harris
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’ Quentin Tarantino
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’ Tech N9ne
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. Emile Zola
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. e. e. cummings
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. Orson Welles
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. Lou Holtz
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. Neil deGrasse Tyson
People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here’s a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime. Harris Faulkner
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. Marcus Porcius Cato
So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Jesus Christ
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. Morgan Freeman
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. George Burns
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually. Frank Sinatra
You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it’s a great workout. I love it. Colin Farrell
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself. Elon Musk
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Marcel Proust
When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. Christopher Hitchens
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that. George Carlin
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston Churchill
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know. Louis Armstrong
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Saint Augustine
Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it’s the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government. Roger Ver
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Jules Renard
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? Wassily Kandinsky
When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You’ve asked them, I’ve asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. ‘How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?’ Ravi Zacharias
Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude. Nick Vujicic
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. Jane Goodall
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I’ve lost someone or I’ve seen a sick child, I’ve had conversations with Him in which I’ve had to ask, ‘How can that be right?’ Melissa McCarthy
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates. Magic Johnson
Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Sometimes the hardest thing we ever must do is ask for help. We want to show everyone that we can do it all, that we have it under control. But the reality is that asking for help is not a sign of weakness – it is the greatest sign of strength. Kendra Scott
Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Don Miguel Ruiz
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. John Henrik Clarke
Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious! Katherine Johnson
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. Abraham Lincoln
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. Steve Jobs
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, ‘Am I having fun?’ Christopher Meloni
If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health. Noam Chomsky
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible. Georges St-Pierre
I didn’t ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I’m wrong about this, I guess I’ll become a bum. Hal Lindsey
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. Garrison Keillor
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get. Rodney Dangerfield
It’s not the things you don’t know that trip you up. It’s the things you think you know, but you don’t. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business. Claudia Gray
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. Saul Bellow
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. Ric Ocasek
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. Taylor Swift
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive. Yoko Ono
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. Ayn Rand
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s. Lyndon B. Johnson
I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men – wealthy men – never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says ‘yes,’ because that’s indigenous to that country. Patti Stanger
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. Dale Carnegie
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‘Yes,’ you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. Seneca
