Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Houston

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

Russell M. Nelson

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Russell M. Nelson

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Stella Benson

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

Thomas Hobbes

We are not to renounce our senses and experience, nor (that which is the undoubted Word of God) our natural Reason. For they are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, till the coming again of our blessed savior, and therefore not to be folded up in the napkin of an implicate faith, but employed in the purchase of justice, peace, and true religion. For though there be many things in God's Word above Reason--that is to say, which cannot by natural reason be either demonstrated or confuted--yet there is nothing contrary to it.

Tim Tebow

I definitely consider myself extremely blessed to have great partners in endorsing products. It's not about being on billboards. I endorse something because I believe in it.

Tim Tebow

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future

Tim Tebow

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.

Thomas Goodwin

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

Thomas Ken

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Thomas Chalmers

Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

Thomas Chalmers

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Vin Scully

I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

Victoria Osteen

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

Victor Hugo

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Victor Hugo

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

Vernon Davis

I wake up each and everyday happy because of all of the great things that I have going on in my life and I think about all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me.

Veronica Franco

We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.

Vikram Seth

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

Usher

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.

Tasha Smith

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

Stephen Mitchell

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Stephen Malkmus

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

Stephen King

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Sophie Swetchine

Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.

Stanley Kunitz

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

Stacie Orrico

Every time we've gone somewhere, it's just been better and better and God's always blessed us for following.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

Soren Kierkegaard

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

Tamara Tunie

Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

Swami Vivekananda

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.