Quotes

I don’t know if this is a real quote or something God just dropped into my heart and mind…but I love it!

“Love shown, is love received.” Unknown

A few others that I appreciate are as follows:

“You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge”  Dr. Philip McGraw

“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.” Unknown

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde

“Working out is not selfish me time. It’s part of living healthfully.” Alison Sweeney

“Never lose sight of your dreams. For to be without dreams is to be without hope and to be without hope is to be without purpose.” Unknown

“In the end it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln

“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Talmud

“The past it forms the present, but it doesn’t have to control the future.” Debra Mitchell

“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into it’s soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,–she would see that in all God’s world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.” -JR Miller

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” ~Wayne Gretzky~

“A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.”Author Unknown

An unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” Abraham Lincoln

“Focus on your priorities, but take things in stride. Make decisions, not excuses. Live one moment at a time. Count your blessings, not your troubles. Let the wrong things go. Look for lessons in unforeseen obstacles. Ask for help. Give as much as you take. Make time for those who matter. Laugh when you can. Cry when you need to. And always stay true to your values.” –Melchor Lim

“Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

THE MIND IS A POWERFUL TOOL:

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man’s life is what his thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

“Change your thoughts and you change your world” Norman Vincent Peale

And last but definately, not least…the Bible says, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he”.
Proverbs 23:7

I’m not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I’m taken up…as a matter of fact, I’m just getting warmed up!

~ Zig Ziglar

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel


Maya Angelou

“A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.” – Author Unknown

“Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.” – Daniel Pink

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2 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Trackback: Quotes | dancingthruyears
  2. AnnaLinnehan
    Jul 31, 2013 @ 17:42:46

    I especially love this one: “We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.” Talmud

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