Quotes

Favorite Quotes I Try to Live By:

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJV)

"But someone will say, 'You have faith, and I have works.' Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works." - James 2:18 (NKJV)

"It is what we make of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
-Nelson Mandela

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." - Romans 8:28

"It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it." - C.S. Lewis

"Your yesterday's decisions has brought today's results." - Jason Cooper

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

"But be doers of the word, not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." - James 1:22 (NKJV)

"Evil isn't born, it's made." - Once Upon A Time

"If you live each day as if it was your last, some day you'll most certainly be right." - Steve Jobs

"If the ax is dull, And one does not sharpen the edge, Then he must use more strength; But wisdom brings success." Ecclesiastes 10:10 NKJV

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

"Each thing you experience makes your life different, immediately and eventually."
-Nathan Felde

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." - Proverbs 27:6 (NKJV)

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"And if I can only reach one set of ears, I know that I've fulfilled my purpose here." - Johnny Lang, One Person at a Time

"Don't spend money you don't have, to buy things you don't need, to impress people you don't like."

“The heart is not so easily changed, but the head can be persuaded.” - Frozen

"Don't run away from darkness, shine into it."
-Pastor Craig Groeschel

"So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God." - James 1:19-20 (NKJV)

"Life isn't the destination, life is the journey to it."

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." - Mulan

"Faith is always at rest. Displays of anger show a lack of faith..." - Joyce Meyer 

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." -John Maeda 

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”- Theodore Roosevelt

"The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that we might someday return to him."
-Richard Paul Evans in 'The Christmas Box'


"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know; but when you listen, you may learn something new." - Dalai Lama

"Actions speak louder than words."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
-Reinhold Niebuhr

"The hardest part of a journey is to choose to make it. Dangers are greatest in the heart, where fear can magnify them." - Neopets

"Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that." - Nicholas Sparks

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent Van Gogh
"We do not plan to fail, we fail to plan." - Lorrie Ross

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” Maya Angelou

"Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring." -Lorrin L. Lee

"It's hard to stumble when on your knees."
-Random Church Sign

"You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle."
-Morgan Freeman as God in Bruce Almighty

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen

"Dreading something that isn’t here yet only wastes the time you have today." -Joyce Meyer

"For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men." - 1 Peter 2:15
 
"Everyday is a gift, that's why they call it the present."

"Our reaction to a situation literally has the power to change the situation itself."

"I made sure you had everything you needed to complete the task... The adventure I called you to may not be easy. But you will never journey alone. My help is always there." - Veggietales: the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
 
"...The hero isn't the strongest or the fastest or the smartest or the best looking. The hero is the one who, no matter how hard, does what he knows is right." - Veggietales: the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
- Pietro Arentino

"We shake our fists at all the bad there is, when the problem is we're the cause of it." - Jonathan Thulin, Babylon
 
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

"As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend." - Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
-Lao Tze

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden

“Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” - Gena Showalter

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” - Pablo Picasso

"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." - 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

"Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world." - Nelson Mandela

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Gandhi

Matthew 6:25-34 (NKJV)

My Own Personal Quotes (by Tiffany Vargas):

"You can choose to use the Bible to support your arguments, or you can allow God to use the Bible to support His."

"When you act on fear, you make the fear come true."

"No one can make you feel insecure except yourself. True confidence isn't dependent on other people but dependent on you knowing who you are."

"In order to 'Love thy neighbor as thy self,' you have to be able to love yourself first."

"I don't believe people can be separated as good and bad people. I think there are people who still have hope, and people who have lost hope. It is when people lose hope that they are willing to hurt themselves and/or others."

"Talent is in how quickly you can pick up a skill. Nonetheless, the skill has to be developed."

"It's not about who is most qualified. It's about who is most willing."

"Before you were born you had an impact on your mother upon being conceived & on all those who knew of the pregnancy: A legacy even before birth."

"I believe true love lies in the choice of putting another person's needs before your own wants. And sometimes, even their own wants."

"Even one person saved makes our hard work worth it."

"It isn't worth spending time trying to impress someone who is looking for something to dislike about you. No matter what you do, they will always find something, as we are all imperfect."

"Age does not determine wisdom or maturity, experience does. But with age often comes experience."

"Many say, 'love is blind'. I disagree. I believe, as in the bible, love is honest. True love should be able to see everything and still love and focus on the positives, as God does with us. Hiding and ignoring flaws isn't accepting or loving them."


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