Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Mason

That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

George Mason

We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

George Mason

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Emanuel Swedenborg

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

Elizabeth George

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Joel Osteen

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

Joel Osteen

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

Joel Osteen

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Joel Osteen

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.

Joel Osteen

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Joel Osteen

If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.

Joel Osteen

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

Joel Osteen

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

Joe Biden

The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

John James Audubon

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

John Ortberg

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

John O'Donohue

When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.

John O'Donohue

A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

John Calvin

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

James Thomas Fields

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.

James Taylor

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

James Madison

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

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.

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.

Luchino Visconti

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

Lorenzo Snow

The law of tithing is one of the most important ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying this law the blessings of prosperity and success will be given to the Saints.

Lorenzo Snow

I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.

Lord Byron

Come what may, I have been blest.

Lou Holtz

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Lorena Ochoa

I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.