Perseverance Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Perseverance Quotes and a Bible Verse

"So let's not get tired of doing what is good.
At just the right time we will reap a harvest of
blessing if we don't give up."

- Galatians 6:9

"Courage is the whisper in the moment of
despair that says: 'I must go on... '"

- Daniel Waldschmidt

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and
frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Dorothea Brande

"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...
and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in
which you know exactly what you want... and are fully determined
not to quit until you get it."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."

- Julie Andrews

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you,
til it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the
tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials."

- A Chinese Proverb

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is,
that one often comes from a strong will, and the other
from a strong won't."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"When nothing seems to help,
I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two,
and I know it was not that last blow that did it,
but all that had gone before."

- Jacob A. Riis

"In the hardest of times,
often the most beautiful things follow."

- Devin Heramson

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."

- Hebrews 13:8
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"Let us dare to be ourselves,
for we do that better than anyone else can."
- Shirley Briggs

"You will never change your life until you change something you
do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."
- John C. Maxwell

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning
the instrument as one goes on."
- Samuel Butler

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

 - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"We would worry less about what people think about us if
we realized how seldom they do."
- Ethel Barrett

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Janis Joplin

"We all live under the same sky,
but we don't all have the same horizon."
- Konrad Adehauer

"'You must never feel badly about making mistakes,'
explained Reason quietly, 'as long as you take the trouble to learn
from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right
reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.'"
- Norton Juster, 'The Phantom Tollbooth'

"I don't care if my glass is half full or half empty -
I'm just happy to have a glass."
- Joe Farrell

Quotes and a Bible Verse to Ponder...

Quotes and a Bible Verse to Ponder

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all --
how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?
- Romans 8:32

"Think for a minute about what makes you
fabulous and how you can celebrate it."
- Laura Mercier

"For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship
strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle."
- Robert Brault

"Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?"
- Cinderella

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk
on the water; but to walk on the earth."
- A Chinese Proverb

"It's not good enough that we do our best;
sometimes we have to do what's required."
- Winston Churchill

"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.
Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."
- Glenda Jackson

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be
what you wish to be thought to be."
- Socrates

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you
can do it even better than you think you can."
- Jimmy Carter

"The Almighty has His own purposes."
- Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time, but you
can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln

Parenting and Children Quotes and a Verse...

Parenting and Children Quotes and a Bible Verse

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he

is old he will not turn from it.

- Proverbs 22:6

 

“Before I got married I had six theories

about bringing up children; now I have six

children and no theories.”

- John Wilmot

"Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it."

- From 'Not Your Average Dictionary'

"A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice,

especially when she's taking a nap."

- Author Unknown

“A two-year old is kind of like having a blender,

but you don’t have a top for it.”

- Jerry Seinfeld

"While we try to teach our children all about life,

our children teach us what life is all about."

- Angela Schwindt

"Although there are many trial marriages...

there is no such thing as a trial child."

- Gail Sheehy

"Don't worry that children never listen to you;

worry that they are always watching you."

- Robert Fulghum

"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention

is to sit down and look comfortable."

- Lane Olinghouse

"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children.

One is roots. The other is wings."

- Hodding Carter, Jr.

Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse

"Cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you."

- 1 Peter 5:7

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

- Charlotte Bronte

"I can turn my day around. I can change the flavor of today's

experiences. I can lift my spirits and know all is well."

- Author Unknown

"Today, well lived, will prepare me for both

the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow."

- Author Unknown

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

- H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."

- lyrics from Dave Matthews Band

"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend,

I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'til I'm going to

need somebody to lean on."

- lyrics from song 'Lean On Me'

"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions,

we shall have heaping measures."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let today be a day in which I do something joyful."

- Dana Bate (from Vagabond Journeys)

"Today I will have faith and all will be well."

- Author Unknown

Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes

"Lovely, complicated wrappings sheath the gift of one-day-more;

breathless, I untie the package - never lived this day before!"

- Gloria Gaither

"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breath.

Be alive to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry,

music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope."

- Maltbie D. Babcock

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all

is to see life as it is and not as it should be."

- Don Quixote

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be

what you wish to be thought to be."

- Socrates

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by

people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"I think of life itself as a wonderful play

that I've written for myself, and so my purpose

is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

- Shirley MacLaine

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;

most of which never happened."

- Montaigne

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

"To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom,

knowledge and happiness."

- Ecclesiastes 2:26

"Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what

you want me to be and becoming that person."

- St Therese of Lisieux

"Be what you are. This is the first step toward

becoming better than you are."

- Julius Charles Hare

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently.

Be the chess player, not the chess piece."

- Ralph Charell

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon

way, you command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"I think of life itself as a wonderful play that

I've written for myself, and so my purpose is

to have the utmost fun playing my part."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the

happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star."

- Anthelme Brilat-Savarin

"You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you

can do it even better than you think you can."

- Jimmy Carter

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on

the water, but to walk on the earth."

- A Chinese Proverb

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse...

Inspirational Life Quotes and a Verse

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God,

that He may exalt you in due time”

- 1 Peter 5:6

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life.

It is not something discovered. It is something molded."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a

future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction."

- Jesse Stoner Zemel

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what

you desire to appear."

- Socrates

"To love what you do and feel that it matters –

how could anything be more fun?"

- Katharine Graham

"The key is not to prioritize what's on the schedule,

but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"There cannot be a crisis next week.

My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger