The best Quotes by Charles R. Swindoll

The best Quotes by Charles R. Swindoll

Charles Rozell Swindoll (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher. He founded Insight for Living, headquartered in Frisco, Texas, which airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. He is currently senior pastor at Stonebriar Community Church, in Frisco, Texas.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Life Motivation

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

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Memories Children & Childhood

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

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Dante: "[seeing a Confederate flag] What? Are you serious?"
Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2022

The stars at night, are big and bright,
deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

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Of course, nobody I knew in East-Texas in 1989 cared about Newtonian Physics. The only Newtons they cared about were Wayne and Fig.

Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon - Season 1 Episode 1

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When a Texan gets knocked off a horse, he gets right back on. That is the second most important thing about bein' a Texan, right after thinkin' you're better than everybody else.

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 4 Episode 8

"Did you grow up in Texas?"
Meemaw: "Took my first bath in a ten-gallon hat."

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 2 Episode 13

Sheldon: "Texas, Oklahoma... what's the difference?"
Meemaw: "Hey, now, I think you might want to crack open your psychology textbook 'cause that there is crazy talk."

Sheldons Großmutter "Meemaw" in Young Sheldon - Season 2 Episode 9

Amy: "Lino's reinventing Thanksgiving."
Zora: "Oh, good. 'Cause if there's anything Texans love, it's different sh-t."

From Scratch - Season 1

Since you went away
I bet you missed your exit
And drove right on through the Lone Star state
There's a seat for you at the rodeo
And I've got every slow dance saved
Besides the Mexican food sucks north of here anyway

Bowling for Soup - Ohio (Come Back to Texas), Album: A Hangover You Don’t Deserve

In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.

Kenny Smith

Basketball American Football Texas Georgia

Lila: "So, Richter, why are you such a nihilist?"
Richter: "A what?"
Lila: "I mean, anyone who blasts diesel into the atmosphere like that, truly gives zero f-s about like anything."
Richter: "I'm a Texan. I don't like people telling me what to do. Especially smug, self-righteous, rich, city folk."

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 2022

In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

Kelly Clarkson

Are you really a Texan? I mean, really? If I have a headache, I'd put bacon around an Aspirin before I take it.

RJ Scott

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

American Football Texas

Don't mess with Texas!

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.

Davy Crockett

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Henry Rollins

I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.

Molly Ivins

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Courage Motivation

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8

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Breakup Beginning Motivation

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas

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Work Motivation

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

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Motivation Borders

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Change Motivation Minutes

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries

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Ideas Motivation

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

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Courage Risk Motivation

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Dirk Nowitzki

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The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

Koro-Sensei in Assassination Classroom

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Teachers Failures & Mistakes Motivation

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

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Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

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Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

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Life Death Suicide

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

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Life Risk Safety

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

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Memories Laughing & Smile

Its so hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.

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Memories Breakup Forgetting

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Children & Childhood Hearing & Listening

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

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Children & Childhood Fairytales

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Finding Neverland

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Children & Childhood Bed

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Politics Small Things

Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.

Master Chow in Minions - 2: The Rise of Gru

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Small Things Fate & Destiny

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Morgan Freeman

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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