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

Happy Veteran's Day!...

"I think there is one higher office than President
and I would call that Patriot."

- Gary Hart
 

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
- José Narosky

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the
beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal,
inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of
settling the differences between governments."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Happy Veteran's Day - especially to those who have
fought for our freedoms and to protect this country!
I thank you from the bottom of my heart! And
thank you to those today who are protecting this
great land!!
Below are two posts I did in the past. The first one
is military humor and the second is Veteran's Day
quotes and a nice video you may want to watch.
Have a blessed weekend, everyone!! I am sending
out peace today... Val =)

Click on links below:

Veteran's Day Humor

Veteran's Day Quotes and a Video

Character Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Character Quotes and a Bible Verse

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"For this very reason,
make every effort to add to your faith goodness;
and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control;
and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance,
godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness, love."
- 2 Peter 1:5-7

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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through

experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,

vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul

will be strong to live as well as think."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't

hear what you're saying."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were

going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care,

kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with

no thought of any reward. Your life will

never be the same again.”

– Og Mandino

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"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,

and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one have

not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act,

one's character may remain entirely unaffected

for the better."

- William James

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"The best index to a person's character is

(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good,

and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren

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"If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing,

If you lose your health, you have lost something,

But if you lose your character,

you have lost everything."

- Woodrow Wilson

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"A person reveals his character by nothing

so clearly as the joke he resents."

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character

by his way of eating jelly beans."

- Ronald Reagan

- Happy Birthday, Therese and Carl !!

Autumn Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Autumn Quotes and a Bible Verse


Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper
time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- Galatians 6:9


"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
- Adwin Way Teale


"The summer fades and passes and October comes.
We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness,
a thrill of nervousness, swift elation,
a sense of sadness and departure."
- Thomas Wolfe


"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns."
- George Eliot


"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect
pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
- Carol Bishop Hipps


"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting,
and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Stanley Horowitz


"The breezes taste of apple peel.
The air is full of smells to feel -
Ripe fruit, old footballs, burning brush,
New books, erasers, chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive, well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean with suds, the days
Are polished with a morning haze."
- John Updike


"If you do not sow in the spring,
you will not reap in the autumn."
- An Irish Proverb


"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take
time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence


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- E. E. Cummings

Labor Day Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Labor Day Quotes and a Bible Verse

Do not labor for the food that perishes,
but for the food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give to you.
For on Him God the Father has set His seal.- John 6:27

"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
- Marc Chagall

"Without labor nothing prospers."
- Sophocles

"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor,
he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America,
yet fears labor, he is a fool."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
- Aristotle

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives
a bountiful crop."
- Ovid

"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.
But other times it's essential to take time off and to
make sure that your most important decision in the
day simply consists of choosing which color to slide
down on the rainbow."
- Douglas Pagels

"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots
voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of
hooting hoots and standing on his head for the
edification of the pathologist and trained nurse,
a little later on."
- Elbert Hubbard

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end
to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend."
- Doug Larson

"Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child
will be going back to school the next day. It would
have been called Independence Day, but that name
was already taken."
- Bill Dodds

Audrey Hepburn Quotes...

Audrey Hepburn Quotes


"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really
start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book,
and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."


"Paris is always a good idea."


"If I get married, I want to be very married."


"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm.
As you get older, remember you have another hand. The first is to help
yourself, the second is to help others."


"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and
you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up.
Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"


"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read
fairy-tales and I like them best of all."


"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at
leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is
the best calorie burner. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls...
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."


"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips,
speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge
that you are never alone."


"People even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."


"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

Lewis Carroll Quotes...

Lewis Carroll Quotes

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

"Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round."

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really

worth the doing is what we do for others.”

"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so,

it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

"I have had prayers answered, most strangely so sometimes,

but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been

even more evident in what He has refused me."

"Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it."

"We called him Tortoise because he taught us."

"If you don't know where you are going,

any road will get you there."

"Everything's got a moral,

if only you can find it."

"Twinkle, twinkle little bat,

How I wonder what you're at!

Up above the world you fly,

Like a tea-tray in the sky."

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,'

said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,'

said the cat. 'We're all mad here.'"

Children Quotes...

Quotes About Children

"Children are surely one of God's greatest gifts and truest challenges.

To share your life with a child is to humble yourself so that you may

learn from them and discover with them the beautiful secrets that are

only uncovered in searching."

- Kathleen Tierney Crilly

"Every child born into this world is a new thought of God,

an ever fresh and radiant possibility."

- Kate Douglas Wiggin

"Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children,

and the one most important of all the the things we can give

to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on

anything at all except that they are our children."

- Rosaleen Dickson

"The child must know that he is a miracle - that since the beginning

of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there

will not be, another child like him."

- Pablo Casals

"I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can,

but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you

are the explanation."

- Robert Brault

"Let us put our minds together and see what

life we can make for our children."

- Sitting Bull

"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear

the nice things you say about them to others."

- Dr. Haim Ginott

"What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change,

and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure."

- Gene Perret

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of Heaven."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older

they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

- Oscar Wilde

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