Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.

Richard Paul Evans

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

Richard Baxter

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Rebecca West

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

Saint Augustine

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Ryan Lewis

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

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.

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.

Robert Fulghum

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

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.

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?

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 Hood

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

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.

Russell M. Nelson

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

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?

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.

Samuel Johnson

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly.

Samuel Johnson

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.