John Templeton famous quotes

Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.
-- John Templeton

#Special #Use #Talent

...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want to hear anybody who can tell me something in addition to ways I already know about God or my spiritual principles.
-- John Templeton

#Spiritual #Optimistic #People

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
-- John Templeton

#Spiritual #Reality #Opposites

A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.
-- John Templeton

#Flower #Optimistic #Mean

The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
-- John Templeton

#Religious #Hurt #Believe

Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
-- John Templeton

#Optimistic #Divinity #Worship

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.
-- John Templeton

#Gratitude #Attitude #Blessing

If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.
-- John Templeton

#Meaningful #Adversity #Blessing

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
-- John Templeton

#Optimistic #Thinking #Self

Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.
-- John Templeton

#Beautiful #Expression #Survival

We may find the Divine to be 3,000 times what we think it is now. It's like asking the tulip there to explain you. The tulip is a beautiful creation, with millions of atoms cooperating with each other to produce great beauty, but ask that tulip to talk about you, and it can't do it. It doesn't have those perceptive abilities. Wouldn't it be conceited to suggest that I had the abilities to describe the deity?
-- John Templeton

#Beautiful #Optimistic #Thinking

It has been said that "to enthuse" means "to fill with spirit," and that spirit of enthusiasm is awaiting release or manifestation. Enthusiasm can be harnessed and activated. It can be transferred from one person to another. The energy of enthusiasm is similar to a radio signal that carries around the world. It can be transmitted and received; and when enthusiasm is shared by a group of people, it can be potentiated to a higher degree of power.
-- John Templeton

#Mean #People #Energy

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.
-- John Templeton

#Thanksgiving #Children #Doors

Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.
-- John Templeton

#Beauty #Beautiful #Unique

I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church - I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.
-- John Templeton

#Christian #Optimistic #Opportunity

Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.
-- John Templeton

#Spiritual #Powerful #Ideas

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
-- John Templeton

#Optimistic #Optimism #Bulls

Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.
-- John Templeton

#Love #Heart #Thinking

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
-- John Templeton

#Happiness #Spiritual #Giving

Focus on value because most investors focus on outlooks and trends,
-- John Templeton

#Focus #Trends #Outlook

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.
-- John Templeton

#Generosity #Giving #Risk

How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.
-- John Templeton

#Optimistic #Elderly #People

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.
-- John Templeton

#Leadership #Different #Engagement

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
-- John Templeton

#Gratitude #Grateful #Being Thankful

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.
-- John Templeton

#Inspirational #Lives Of Others

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.
-- John Templeton

#Gratitude #Powerful #Attitude

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
-- John Templeton

#Money #Different #Four

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.
-- John Templeton

#Years #Giving #Saws

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
-- John Templeton

#Inspiring #Thank You #Nice

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
-- John Templeton

#Giving #Joy

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
-- John Templeton

#Purpose #Strange #Evolution

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
-- John Templeton

#Optimistic #Mind #Use

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
-- John Templeton

#Crowds #Want #Performances

Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.
-- John Templeton

#Pessimism #Maximum

Work at being a humble person.
-- John Templeton

#Humble #Optimistic #Humble Person

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
-- John Templeton

#Creating #Secret #Riches

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
-- John Templeton

#Inspirational #Humility #Humble