Quotes

I have been collecting quotes for a super long time and this collection doesn't even begin to relay how many I have gathered.  Unfortunately, I do not have the names of those who said these beautiful words but I welcome you to enjoy them regardless!

Life without God is like a treadmill.

You take just as many steps and gain no ground.

  

Every person is equal before God.  Every idea is not.

 It’s not the names people call you, but what you answer to that counts.

  

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

  

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

  

Be not simply good, but good for something.

  

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

  

We are more obsessed with speed than direction.

We save minutes and waste years.

  

You are who you hang out with.

  

Perhaps those who are best suited to power

are those who have never sought it out;

those who have leadership thrust upon them

and take up the mantle because they must,

and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

 Some people succeed because they are “destined” to,

but most people succeed because they are determined.

 Life is like a mirror.  We get our best results when we smile at it.

 Good luck is a lazy man’s estimate of a worker’s success.

 Blowing out another’s candle won’t make yours brighter.

 Courage: what it takes to stand up and speak.

Courage: what is takes to sit down and listen.

 Spend your life on something that will outlast it.

 It matters not what someone is born,

but what they grow to be.

 Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadow.

 When we sit and listen to garbage we’re no

better than the one tossing it out.

 It has been said that a few passionate people can change the world.

If you think about it, they are the only ones who have.

  

 Anger only burns the one who holds it.

  

Sometimes the greatest testimony to a lost world is when

they see a Christian suffer and remain faithfully in love with Christ.

  

You are never more like Jesus than when you suffer.

  

We cannot let what is common

dictate what is acceptable.

  

Sometimes God’s time is the last minute.

  

Character, like a fence, can’t be straightened with white wash.

  

It’s better to light one candle

than to curse the darkness.

  

God has chosen the weak things in this world

to confound the ones who are mighty.

  

Jesus should not be a priority in my life.  He should be my life.

  

If you can’t listen to your parents

how are you going to listen to God?

  

 What ever is begun in anger ends in shame.

  

All that evil needs to take over

is for good men to sit back and do nothing.

 It doesn’t take strength to hold a grudge-

it takes strength to let one go.

 God’s blessings are as numerous as the

stars and sometimes just as unseen.

 Do not sit and idly wish for wider,

new dimensions where you can put

into practice all your good intentions,

but at the spot God placed you,

begin at once to do little things to

brighten up the lives surrounding you.

 Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

 You may be only one person in the world,

but you may also mean the world to one person.

 Happiness comes through doors you didn’t know you left open.

 Sometimes the next step involves one BIG leap.

 Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

 One who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything.

 Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

 Go the extra mile-it’s never crowded.

 Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts

and don’t put up with anyone who’s reckless with yours.

  

You will never be called to give

any more grace than God has given you.

  

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

  

One moment of pleasure is not worth a lifetime of pain.

  

When you pray for patience you get all the red lights. 

  

don’t count your days. make your days count.

  

You won’t worry so much what people think

about you when you find how seldom they do.

 To err is human, to forgive it divine.

 The sign of a good Christian is how much

they’re willing to be inconvenienced.

 Part of having faith in God is showing the world who you believe in.

 It hurts God when I only want part

of what He sent His Son to die for.

 Attitude is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

 This is a new day.

 Right is right even if no one is doing it.

Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

 When one is wrapped up in himself he makes a very small package.

 Learn how to give stuff away.

 An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity.

A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

  

 True worship is adjusting your attitude to reflect God.

  

Do not let another person’s opinion become your reality.

   

We usually don’t realize Christ is all we need until Christ is all we have.

 Anxiety is living out your future before it happens.

 The lust for comfort murders the passion of the

soul and then walks grinning at the funeral.