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

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

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

Easter Quotes...

Easter Quotes

"For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance:

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He

was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to

the Scriptures."

- St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4

"Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were

just three days apart!"

- Susan Coolidge

"To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything,

when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ."

- Bernhard Langer

"The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity,

is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery

that brings more glory to God than all creation."

- C. H. Spurgeon

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which

makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph,

and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake."

- Basil C. Hume

"Let every man and woman count himself immortal.

Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in His resurrection.

Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'"

- Phillips Brooks

"He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the

opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances."

- Robert Flatt

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair.

We are the Easter people and hallelujah

is our song."

- Pope John Paul II

Success Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Success Quotes and a Bible Verse

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on

your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make your paths straight."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

"It's our attitude in life that determines life's

attitude toward us."

- Earl Nightingale

"Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from

lack of ability but from lack of commitment."

- Zig Ziglar

"Don't be content with doing only your duty.

Do more than your duty. It's the horse that

finishes a neck ahead that wins the race."

- Andrew Carnegie

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation

with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking

new lands but seeing with new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"What are you doing today to become a champion?"

- Drayton McLane, Jr.

"No matter what it is,

pick yourself up and go on to the next project."

- Shelley Duvall

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Success is 99 percent failure."

- Soichire Honda

"This is the best day the world has ever seen.

Tomorrow will be better."

- R. A. Campbell

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Albert Einstein Quotes...

Albert Einstein Quotes

"The only reason for time is so that everything

doesn't happen at once."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth

and cease only at death."

"I have no special talents.

I am only passionately curious."

"There are two ways to live:

you can live as if nothing is a miracle;

you can live as if everything is a miracle."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's

most beautiful gift."

"If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough."

"The world is a dangerous place,

not because of those who do evil,

but because of those who look on and do nothing."

"I have little patience with scientists

who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part,

and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."

"Let every man be respected as an individual

and no man idolized."

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it

seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour

and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."

"If A equals success,

then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z,

and with X being work, Y play and Z keeping

your mouth shut."