wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Just some of your favorite quotes. What are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milovany Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I'm learning to live by the one in my signature -- the full prayer ends with "Yea O Lord, help me to see my own sin, and not to condemn my brother. For blessed art Thou unto ages of ages, Amen." The shorter version is "O Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me." :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 "Choose your battles," and "Is this a hill to die on?" I don't know if it's a quote, but, "Am I treating my children and husband as if they are the image-bearer of God?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuzi Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 "No success in the world can compensate for failure in the home" "Time is going to pass whether I do anything or not" (I use this to motivate myself when facing big choices that aren't likely to bring about immediate results - results will come with time, and I have to keep moving) " 'Shoulda, woulda, coulda' doesn't get you very far." (i.e. don't rehash the past or bemoan past mistakes, move forward!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Be the change you want to see in the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocean_eyes Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" Bob Marley "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." Moliere "This, too, shall pass." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Social Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Preach the gospel always, when necessary use words. St. Francis Assissi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Nothing worth doing is easy. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. A little rebellion every now and then is a good thing. (Those are both Thomas Jefferson.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaOz Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 This is one I tell the kids: 'If 50,000 people do a foolish thing, it's STILL a foolish thing.' ALSO: 'If you tell the truth all of the time, I can always believe you. If you tell the truth only some of the time, I can NEVER believe you.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." --Gandhi "Patience is its own reward." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funschooler5 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 "It's nice to be nice." - My Grandpa :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmrich Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I love this thread! "If you keep doing what you're doing, you're gonna keep getting what your getting" "Don't put off til tomorrow what can be done today" I love this poem from FLL1/2: "Work while you work Play while you play This is the way to be happy each day All that you do, do with your might Things done by halves are never done right" I know the poem isn't right, but all I have to do is say the first two lines and the kids know to work during work time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 You got to serve somebody. Bob Dylan. Everybody has to answer to someone no matter how high their station or mighty their power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMomof4 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 It will all be fine in the end. If it isn't fine, it isn't the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Boring food=boring life. It's true for me, anyway :) Plus the one in my sig line. That's the best! Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookFanatic Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Get Holy or Die Tryin'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBM Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "If it's meant to be, it's up to me." That pretty much sums up how I live! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. Fred Astaire Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StartingOver Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Live every moment like it is your last..... it could be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaOz Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Love this quote from your sig line, Rosie. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." How true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Love this quote from your sig line, Rosie. "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." How true. Now I really have to go and find out who Krishnamurti is/was. I've been meaning to for ages! :blush: Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cathy in IL Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelanieM Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." - Julian of Norwich "It's not what you do, it's how you feel when you do it." - Abraham-Hicks "You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey." - Abraham-Hicks (This is about being happy in the now, rather than being miserable in the now and expecting to be happy when you get to whatever it is you think you want.) "What other people think of me is none of my business." - Wayne Dyer "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw "We do not attract what we want, but what we are." - James Lane Allen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 I try to constantly remind myself of the two quotes in my sig line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 " Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" - Jesus Christ of Nazareth (Matthew 4:17, KJV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 The only thing needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke Do or do not... there is no try - Yoda Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 You eat a pound of dirt before you die. "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." -Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 At days end I give all my worries to God... He's gonna be up anyway. unknown I'm learning to put God first (our church is doing the Blessed Life series) so on my wall is a sign: God first... in my heart, in my checkbook, in my day, in my motives, in my words, in my actions Lara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Worry is not preparation. (Zen proverb) Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Worry is not preparation.(Zen proverb) Jackie Oh, I like that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryde55 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always yet what you've always gotten." -- From my pastor in California (who may have read/heard it from someone else)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pryde55 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Sorry for the typo on the other response: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always gotten." -- from my pastor in California (who may have read/heard it from someone else)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leanna Tomlinson Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." - a sign at our drivers license bureau. I quote this frequently. "You do not like them, so you say! Try them, try them and you may! Try them and you may I say!" Dr. Seuss Can you tell my husband has been gone all week and I've been alone with the kids? Leanna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catherine Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "It is our choices, Harry, that show who we are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- P.K. Dick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wy_kid_wrangler04 Posted March 20, 2010 Author Share Posted March 20, 2010 I like those! Leanna, our DMV has the same sign I LOVE THAT ONE!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny Piaaree Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 I ran across this on an old sign hanging in a barn filled with antique things. I don't believe there was an author given. "When I am right I can afford to keep my temper. When I am wrong I cannot afford to lose it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "Anything worth having is worth working for." "Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Be excellent." "If you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad 4 Boys Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Before I was saved mine was, "Every day above ground is a good day." After I was saved my favorite Bible verse became, "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it." They both mean the same thing to me. One funny, but not serious one that I use is, "hard work pays off in the end, but procrastination pays off right now." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KC in KS Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Really helps me when I'm tempted by "it won't hurt just this once". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny. — Mahatma Gandhi Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi "Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." — Mahatma Gandhi He was a wise man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 And these from Madiba: We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "Before I speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?" - Amy Carmichael "Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you." Ephesians 4:32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighton Academy Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "Character is what you are in the dark." ~Dwight L. Moody "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." ~ George Bernard Shaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighton Academy Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Oooh, also love this one! "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Dum spiro, spero. While I breathe, I hope. It really helps get through the day right now and reminds me that if I've lost hope, I've lost it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Robyn Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Since middle school I've liked "had they but courage equal to desire..." from a poem by W.B. Yeats my own Beggars can't be choosers, but givers shouldn't be #%*$! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PollyOR Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 There are more in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougarmom4 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "The most important work you will ever do will be in the walls of your own home." (Harold B. Lee) "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Thumper in Bambi "For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it! If there be none, nevermind it!" (Unfortunately I don't know the author of this little poem, I memorized it back in high school & can't remember!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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