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

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 !!

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

Happiness and Contentment Quotes and a Verse...

Happiness and Contentment Quotes

This is the day the Lord has made;

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

- Psalm 118:24

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony

between a man and the life he leads?"

- Albert Camus

"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do."

- Gerry Sikorski

"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life,

for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet

that true joy can live."

- Bertrand Russell

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume

that the object of life is happiness."

- George Orwell

"Make a game of finding something positive in every

situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are

determined by how you interpret events to yourself."

- Brian Tracy

"Laughter is inner jogging."

- Norman Cousins

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell

the roses, for you only get to play one round."

- Ben Hogan

"Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment,

and quit worrying about winning and losing."

- Matt Biondi

"Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

- Earl Nightingale

"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."

- A Swedish Proverb

"Smile; it increases your face value."

- Dolly Parton

Friendship Quotes and a Verse...

Friendship Quotes and a Verse

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work;

If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls

and has no one to help him up!

- Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"A true friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway."

- Christi Mary Warner

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and

aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to

noble deeds."

- Aristotle

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

- Euripedes

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of

yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

- Laurence J. Peter

"To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two."

- Norman Douglas

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the

man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

I wove my webs for you because I liked you. By helping you,

perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows

anyone's life can stand a little of that."

- E. B. White, 'Charlotte's Web'

"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good

friend you don't need an analyst."

- Joan Crawford

* dedicated to those few people who are oh-so-very special to me. 
You know who you are... male and female, I can count you on
one hand.  I love each of you!!

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