Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ford

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

Manly Hall

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

Mandy Patinkin

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

Mandy Moore

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

Malese Jow

I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.

Malcolm X

I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

John C. Maxwell

We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, "John, I've worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth." So what I would love is for readers [of Today Matters] to do that for a year and then email me.

Johannes Tauler

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Johannes Tauler

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

John Adams

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

John Adams

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

Jackson Rathbone

I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

Louise Hay

Bless and prosper those around you. Bless and prosper yourself

The energy around it is really inspiring me. I've already felt that. There's been some really great blessings that have come my way, so, it must be true.

James M. Barrie

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Joe Nichols

The Lord has blessed me more than I deserve.

Joan Didion

Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Joan Didion

Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.

Joan Didion

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

Jim James

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

Dick Ebersol

The first thing I said to Susan in the emergency room was, 'Honey, you're just going to have to realize that we were blessed to have 14 incredible years with Teddy. He's gone.'

The card said, 'When times get rough, go out for dinner and a movie. God Bless You,' ... And there were certificates for Safeway, McDonald's, Blockbuster ... Well, that's what we did, and we really enjoyed ourselves.

You are here, and there is nothing to fear. Count your blessings and before you're finished counting, you"ll have even more

Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

Shaun Alexander

It was an emotional roller coaster - going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

Shane Claiborne

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

Michelle Obama

Every day, the people I meet inspire me... every day, they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Michael Pitt

I'm really, really blessed. Not only am I blessed to have found that I love making films, but I'm also insanely blessed to be able to do it. I have to remind myself that when I'm complaining.