Dan Groat quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Dan Groat

Dan Groat Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Dan Groat on Wise Famous Quotes.

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

Everybody dies. It's no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.

The only way the meek will ever inherit the earth is when they get ground into it by the heel of someone else's boot.

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

If you decide to take somebody on, don't look behind you, because there won't be anybody there. You'll be all alone.

Death was an old acquaintance. They had met before. They were not friends. Not enemies, either.

There ain't nothin' you can say about war that ain't personal. It's all personal.

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think.

Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark; it will not smolder. It will not change.

The true soldier knows nothing but war, and the true soldier, for lack of an enemy, attacks himself.

Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

Not interested in scarin' anybody, but people with good sense are afraid of a man with nothin' to lose.

Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

People don't die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.

When you're anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head.

Giants bleed like everybody else.

Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

Everything will be fine. I've heard that my whole life. Everything will be fine. That's baloney.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

I need to work. It's the one time my thoughts will cooperate with me.

Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don't.

The weak thrive on indulgence.

True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.

As I have aged, I've been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

What kind of country has this become? Decent people can't do anything without being watched.

This country should treat good people better than they do.

Evil won't leave you alone until you take a stand or until you're dead.

Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.

We shook hands the way men do when they're trying to say something more than goodbye.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you're in trouble.

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don't save yourself, they will die.

They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.

He had no ability to give up. It wasn't that he didn't want to quit, he couldn't. It wasn't in him. It never had been.

Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.

We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear.

The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Surviving is about need. Living is about want.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

It must be great to spend time in a spot and if you walk away, it's so much better than before because of something you did.

Don't ever use a shovel to swat a fly.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

Hope is a carrot tied to the stick of tomorrow.

[bookcover:A Punctual Paymaster|25707312]
"Responsibility is definitely not something you feel; it is something you wear."
Dan Groat

Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.

I wonder how long it takes for these people we elect to forget who they work for?

The answers are in you, not around you.

Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.

We who are dreamers and doers want only the chance to dream and do, to have an idea and to try to carry it out without interference.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.