Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim McGraw

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.

Tiger Woods

If you're lucky to have three close people in your life, you're blessed.

Thomas Jefferson

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Tom Selleck

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

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.

Richard Bach

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

Robert Fulghum

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

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.

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.

Rumi

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Rumi

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

Rumi

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

Tom Robbins

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Tom Krause

The best things that have ever happened to me have not been the result of anything I have done. Some might say that is luck. I call them blessings and in some cases miracles.

Tom Freston

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.