Well I must admit I enjoy quotes and different little sayings. I also enjoy coming up with certain ones however I'm not sure if I can say I'm very good at making them. But I do enjoy them and well here some that I like, have been sent by friend, or have made up myself.


* "Sometimes our best mirrors are other people."

"People never know how special someone is until they leave, but maybe sometimes its important to leave, so they are given that chance to see how special that someone really is."

"When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen; There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."

"Confession is the key that opens the door to forgiveness."

"Our greatest enemy is not disease, but despair."

"Believing is seeing what our eyes cannot see."

"Contentment comes not from great wealth but from few wants."

"Those who are lost need someone to show them the way."

"When it seems you can't forgive, remember how much you've been forgiven."

"Success means that you get up one more time than you fall down."

"True greatness is not attained by giving orders, but by serving."

"It is better to be faithful than famous."

"To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong."

"Some of life's greatest lessons are learned in the school of afflictions."

"After all is said and done, more is said than done."

"Slander seeks to destroy, but rebuke seeks to restore."

"It is better to add life to you years than to add years to your life."

"Worry doesn't improve the future, it only ruins the present."

"When you lash out at others, you're sure to hurt yourself."

"He who conquers his anger conquers a strong enemy."

"Think before you act; think twice before you speak."

"Love is the door through which we pass from selfishness to service."

" I will share the great news of Jesus Christ... ... and if neccesary use words"

"If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do."--Mark Twain

"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck… But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness." --Ellen Goodman

"Friends are family we choose for life."

"To some people religious freedom means the choice of churches that they may stay away from."

"Busyness builds a schedule but it fractures a family."

“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” -- Joseph Joubert

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." -- Charles Caleb Colton

"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."

"Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future. Today is a gift, that is why we call it the present."

"A rich man is the one who isn't afraid to ask the clerk to see something cheaper."

"The most enjoyable way to follow a vegetable diet is to let the cow eat it, and then eat the cow."

"Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet."

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." --Sacha Guitry

"Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors." --Josh Billings

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." --Ogden Nash

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." –Plato

"All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on his being with them." --Hudson Taylor

"Do not pray for easy lives, Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your task." -- Phillips Brooks

"In times of prosperity friends will be plenty; in times of adversity not one in twenty."

"Some people practice what they preach, others just practice preaching."

"Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But it doesn't pull God down to us: it pulls us up to him." -- Billy Graham

"Some people drink at the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."

"Some people get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory."

"Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to its parents. The armor is not to fight in, but to shield us while we pray. Prayer is the battle. The prayer of the feeblest saint on earth who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer. " -- Oswald Chambers

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." -- Franklin P. Jones

"Never ask a barber if he thinks you need a haircut."

"God grades on the cross, not the curve."

"College is spending $100 for a book, and $300 to prove you read it."

"Never test the depth of the water with both feet."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." -- Thomas Carlyle

"I am not where I should be, but thank God I am not where I use to be". -- Joyce Meyer

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers

"You can fall down by yourself but you need a friend's hand to get up." -- Yiddish Proverb

"Christ was content to be born in a stable so we could live in a mansion when we die."

"In case of nuclear attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily canceled."

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

"Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous!"

"If you've got enough of Jesus to get to heaven, you have enough of Jesus to get you to church."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Many people want to serve God - but only in an advisory capacity."

"Plan ahead - it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!"

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."

“Wisdom has two parts: 1- Having a lot to say 2- Not saying it."

"Watch your step carefully! Everyone else does!"

"A clean conscience makes a soft pillow."

"A fellow who says it can't be done is likely to be interrupted by someone doing it."

"Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

"He who angers you controls you!"

"Worry is the darkroom in which 'negatives' are developed."

"Deciding not to choose is still making a choice."

"Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance."

"God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called."

"A closed mouth gathers no foot."

"If God is your copilot - Swap seats!"

"Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people look smart until you hear them talk."

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

"It's not hard to meet expenses... they're everywhere."

"When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails." -- Abraham Maslow

"Live every day like it is your last day on Earth and sooner or later you will be right."

"Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."

"Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone."

"Families are like fudge...mostly sweet, with a few nuts."

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

"90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at."

"If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it."

"Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count." -- Kin Hubbard

"A closed mouth gathers no foot."

"If things are better with age, I'm approaching magnificent!"

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Eddie Rickenbacker

"Never look for justice in this world but never cease to give it." --Oswald Chambers

"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard."

A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome, as a solution to the problem.

"Too many people want the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention."

"God grades on the cross, not the curve."

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than standing in the garage makes you a car."

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla." -- Jim Bishop

"A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something."

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim." -- Ann Landers

"Confession without repentance is just bragging." -- Rev. Eugene Bolton

"When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." -- Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." -- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill "

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." -- Robert Orben

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted." -- Mary O'Connor

"Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it."

"Common sense is very uncommon."

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."

"A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing."

"The easiest way to figure the cost of living is to take your income and add twenty percent."

"Give God what's right, not what's left!"

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." -- Jean de la Bruyre

"You have to wonder about people who think God is dead and Elvis is alive."

"God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage."

"We don't change the message; the message changes us."

"He who knows others is wise; He knows himself is enlightened." -- Lao-Tzu

"Normal" is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

"If God is your co-pilot, swap seats."

"You are only young once but can stay immature indefinitely." -- Ogden Nash

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"A sense of humor is the lubricant of life's machinery."

"A lot of pessimists get that way from financing optimists."

"Humor is the ability to see three sides of the coin."

"As you go through life you are going to have many opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Take advantage of all of them." -- James Dent

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure."

"If people focused on the important things in life there would be a shortage of fishing rods."

*"As I examine myself I realize that a piece of me is missing, but I know it is in hands that I trust, I only wish that all of me could be at the same place."

*"Refreshing is what you send Lord, but the pain of the thorn is still real. But for what pain it brings, it also brings more reliance on the One who I can lay my burdens on."

*"The biggest hole in relationships today, is not lack of attraction or the inability to have fun, but the lack of good communication."

*"Time makes the body weaker, but can temper the spirit."

*"God does not demand of us anything that He hasn't given us."


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