Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Rita Dove

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

Richard Watson

Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.

Richard Wagner

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

Thomas Moore

We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.

Thomas Paine

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Thomas Paine

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Hughes

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Thomas Hood

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Thomas Huxley

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

Timothy Garton Ash

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Thomas S. Monson

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

Thomas S. Monson

I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

Thomas S. Monson

The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God

Thomas S. Monson

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.

Thomas S. Monson

In the temple we can find peace. The blessings of the temple are priceless.

Thomas S. Monson

When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.

Thomas S. Monson

When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.

Tim Ferriss

Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.

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.

Rumi

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Rumi

Every step I take is a blessing.

Roy H. Williams

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Ron Perlman

I've certainly been very blessed with opportunity.

Susan Sarandon

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Susan Sarandon

When I grew up in the church, we were praying because the Communists were going to come over and hang you upside down on a cross, and I so wanted to be a good person, and I had these rosary beads that I would sleep with every night, and I just wanted the blessed Virgin to be on my side.

Sukhwinder Singh

I'm blessed to be working with wizards like Vishal Bhardwaj as well as many young composers.

Stonewall Jackson

Under divine blessing, we must rely on the bayonet when firearms cannot be furnished

Sonny Perdue

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Solon

As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.