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

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.'"

Funny Quotes...

More Funny Quotes from Reader's Digest

These can be found at Reader's Digest online.

"I think the Discovery Channel should be on a

different channel every day."

- Craig Sharf

"My friend is a procrastinator.

He’s afraid of Saturday the 14th."

- Craig Sharf

"The meek shall inherit the earth...

if it's okay with the rest of you."

- Don Ainey

"Apéritif: French for 'a set of dentures'."

- Author Unknown

"I already regret my choice of Juilliard

to win the NCAA."

- Shap Sweeney

"Our hometown baseball team is called the Possums.

They get killed on the road."

- Richard Klimkiewicz

"My father is allergic to cotton. He has pills that he

can take, but he can't get them out of the bottle."

- Brian Kiley

"I quit my job at the helium gas factory.

I refuse to be spoken to in that tone."

- Stewart Francis

"It's always weird to meet your stunt double.

It's like looking into a mirror where the other

you took care of yourself."

- Actor/Comic Brian Posehn

"Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic,

insomniac? He stayed up all night trying to

decide if there really was a dog!"

- Jack Gray

"What does zero say to eight? 'Nice belt'"

- Traci Ohren

"Did you hear about the self-help group for

compulsive talkers? It's called On & On Anon."

- Sally Davis

"Why did the cowboy buy a dachshund?

Someone told him to get a long little doggy."

- Savanna Smith

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