Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

This is an extremely mixed blessing for us. I would say eight to 12 months from now, we're going to be slammed.

This money and the generosity of these folks are going to be a real blessing to us.

Bill Cowher

This means so much to the team. This is a blessing because Jerome is such a great guy. He brings so much class and professionalism to our team.

Santana Moss

It seems like our whole career we've been helping each other out. Because when he left, that helped me. And when I went down, that helped him. It's a blessing to be able to have a change and the change to mean so much to you and for it to happen the way it did.

It's a risk. Going on a mission hurts you a bit. But there are blessings you receive because of it. In the long run, he's putting faith in us. On a mission you do hard work and that transfers to football. I'm glad to be back and excited to be on this team.

It was one of those things you dream of, ... It was just a blessing for it to finally happen here.

Gordon B. Hinckley

One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. . . . We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

Gordon B. Hinckley

In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein.

Henry David Thoreau

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

Jill Scott

I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

Jessica Hahn

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.

Jeremy Collier

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and discredit all over, and there is no more greatness in it, than in the swelling of a dropsy.

Ernie Harwell

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Erykah Badu

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Bills should be paid cheerfully, all money should be sent forth fearlessly and with a blessing.

Helen Keller

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

Gouverneur Morris

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Giancarlo Esposito

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

James E. Faust

As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more responsible for our choices in a world where people "call evil good, and good evil." We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities depend on the choices we make today.

James E. Faust

None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.

James Brown

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

Jacques Cartier

If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.

Izaak Walton

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Izaak Walton

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Iyanla Vanzant

What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.

Immanuel Kant

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

Jeremy Lin

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

George Whitefield

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.