Quality Quotes

Quotes About Quality

• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. --JOHN RUSKIN
• Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. --HENRY FORD
• I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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Engage With Quality = People pay for quality and excellence. As leaders, we should always be about exceeding expectations. Today, where are you delivering a lower quality than you can be proud of? Stop it, change it, and re-engage with it at a level where the quality attracts you more than it attracts others—when you know deep down you did better than your best. 

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1 Corinthians 3:13 NIV - 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person's work.

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Envy Quotes

 Quotes about Envy

• Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that. --Oliver Stone
• The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. --Jim Rohn
• The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more.

 

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Proverbs 3:31 NLT - 31 Don't envy violent people or copy their ways.

Proverbs 24:1 NLT - 1 Don't envy evil people or desire their company.

Matthew 27:18 NLT - 18 (He knew very well that the religious leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy.)

Mark 7:22 NLT - 22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.

Romans 1:29 NLT - 29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

Galatians 5:21 NLT - 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Titus 3:3 NLT - 3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.

James 4:5 NLT - 5 What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy?

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Loneliness Quotes

Quotes about Loneliness

• Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them. --D. H. Lawrence
• I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master of my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. --Martha Gellhorn, writer
• I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being. --Hafiz, Persian poet
• Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. --Henry Rollins
• Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness. --Yoko Ono
• Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. --Bruce Lee
• Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. --Janet Fitch, author
• Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.” --Kurt Vonnegut
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. –Maya Angelou
• People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. --Joseph Fort Newton, Baptist minister
• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. --Charlotte Brontë
• That little-discussed subject — loneliness. That is a great taboo, isn't it? No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. --Bill Murray
• We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, journalist and social activist
• When I get lonely these days, I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. --Elizabeth Gilbert, author
• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. --Tennessee Williams
• You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. --A.A. Milne, “Winnie-the-Pooh”

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Psalm 25:16 NIV - 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.

Psalm 68:6 NIV - 6 God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

Mark 1:45 NIV - 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.

Luke 5:16 NIV - 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.

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    God is concerned about our loneliness (Genesis 2:18)

    God encourages the lonely (1 Kings 19:14–18)

    God takes care of lonely people (Psalm 68:6)

    Friends help in times of loneliness (Ecclesiastes 4:10–11)

    God remains with us (Matthew 28:20)

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Wisdom Quotes

Quotes About Wisdom and Being Wise

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. --ALDOUS HUXLEY
• In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. --LUCILLE BALL
• Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. --ROBERT F. KENNEDY
• Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway.
• God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Each pain makes you more strong, each betrayal more intelligent, every disappointment more skillful & each experience wiser.
• 5 things you can't recover in life; 1) A stone after its thrown. 2) A word after it's said. 3) An occasion after it's missed. 4) Time after it's gone. 5) Trust after its lost.
• Experience is a wonderful thing... It enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
• Experience is a difficult teacher; She gives the test first and the lesson afterward!
• Wisdom is knowing what to do: Skill is knowing how to do it; Virtue is doing it.
• I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me the brawn and brain to work. I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome.
• We must become the change we want to see.
• He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.  --Tryon Edwards
• The first step to wisdom is silence; the second is listening!
• Strive for excellence, not perfection. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.  — Bertrand Russell
• It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. Laurence J. Peter, 1919-1990), Canadian poet.
• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892); English poet.
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey
• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804); German philosopher.
• Wisdom is a tree of life to those who eat her fruit. Proverbs 3:18
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
• Wisdom: knowing when to speak your mind, and when to mind your speech.
• A word to the wise is superfluous, and a hundred words to the unwise are futile.
• Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions. Author Unknown
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
• Respect old people: they graduated high school without Google or Wikipedia!
• Lord, the resurrection of Your Son has given us new life and renewed hope. Help us to live as new people in pursuit of the Christian ideal. Grant us wisdom to know what we must do, the will to want to do it, the courage to undertake it, the perseverance to continue to do it, and the strength to complete it.
• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. --FRANCIS BACON
• The path to wisdom is paved with humility. --TIM FARGO

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Success Is A Journey = Graduation signifies that you have accomplished something, but you don’t become successful the day you graduate. You became successful the day you decided to go to school, take the course, pursue the goal. Success is a continual journey that shows up at graduation. Success is not the same as recognition of success. When we graduate we are being recognized for what we did right, yesterday.

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Proverbs 1:2, 7, 20 NLT - 2 Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of the wise. ... 7 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. ... 20 Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square.

Proverbs 2:2, 6, 10, 12, 16 NLT - 2 Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. ... 6 For the LORD grants wisdom! From his mouth come knowledge and understanding. ... 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will fill you with joy. ... 12 Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose words are twisted. ... 16 Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.

Proverbs 3:7, 13-15, 18-19 NLT - 7 Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil. ... 13 Joyful is the person who finds wisdom, the one who gains understanding. 14 For wisdom is more profitable than silver, and her wages are better than gold. 15 Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. ... 18 Wisdom is a tree of life to those who embrace her; happy are those who hold her tightly. 19 By wisdom the LORD founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens.

Proverbs 4:5-8 NLT - 5 Get wisdom; develop good judgment. Don't forget my words or turn away from them. 6 Don't turn your back on wisdom, for she will protect you. Love her, and she will guard you. 7 Getting wisdom is the wisest thing you can do! And whatever else you do, develop good judgment. 8 If you prize wisdom, she will make you great. Embrace her, and she will honor you.

Proverbs 5:1 NLT - 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my wise counsel.

Proverbs 7:4 NLT - 4 Love wisdom like a sister; make insight a beloved member of your family.

Proverbs 8:1, 11-12 NLT - 1 Listen as Wisdom calls out! Hear as understanding raises her voice! ... 11 For wisdom is far more valuable than rubies. Nothing you desire can compare with it. 12 "I, Wisdom, live together with good judgment. I know where to discover knowledge and discernment.

Proverbs 9:1, 10-12 NLT - 1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved its seven columns. ... 10 Fear of the LORD is the foundation of wisdom. Knowledge of the Holy One results in good judgment. 11 Wisdom will multiply your days and add years to your life. 12 If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.

Proverbs 11:2 NLT - 2 Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 14:6, 33 NLT - 6 A mocker seeks wisdom and never finds it, but knowledge comes easily to those with understanding. ... 33 Wisdom is enshrined in an understanding heart; wisdom is not found among fools.

Proverbs 15:33 NLT - 33 Fear of the LORD teaches wisdom; humility precedes honor.

Proverbs 16:10, 16 NLT - 10 The king speaks with divine wisdom; he must never judge unfairly. ... 16 How much better to get wisdom than gold, and good judgment than silver!

Proverbs 17:24 NLT - 24 Sensible people keep their eyes glued on wisdom, but a fool's eyes wander to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 18:4 NLT - 4 Wise words are like deep waters; wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.

Proverbs 19:8 NLT - 8 To acquire wisdom is to love oneself; people who cherish understanding will prosper.

Proverbs 21:30 NLT - 30 No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the LORD.

Proverbs 23:23 NLT - 23 Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.

Proverbs 24:3, 7, 14 NLT - 3 A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense. ... 7 Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate, they have nothing to say. ... 14 In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.

Proverbs 28:26 NLT - 26 Those who trust their own insight are foolish, but anyone who walks in wisdom is safe.

Proverbs 29:3, 15 NLT - 3 The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but if he hangs around with prostitutes, his wealth is wasted. ... 15 To discipline a child produces wisdom, but a mother is disgraced by an undisciplined child.

Proverbs 30:3 NLT - 3 I have not mastered human wisdom, nor do I know the Holy One.

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    The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 1:7)

    To find wisdom, first, find God (Proverbs 2:6–12)

    Wise people accept advice (Proverbs 13:10)

    Wise people boast not in their wisdom but in knowing God (Jeremiah 9:23–24)

    The wise understand God’s ways and follow his guidance (Hosea 14:9)

    Wise people build on the solid foundation of God and his Word (Matthew 7:24–27)

    God’s wisdom is different from the world’s wisdom (1 Corinthians 2:1–16)

    God will give us wisdom if we ask for it (James 1:5)

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Impact Quotes

Quotes About Impact

• The Gospel is a universal language that crosses the barriers of time to impact the lives of ordinary people. Michelle Jones 
• You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. John Holcomb 
• The sermons that have the biggest impact on us are those that we preach to ourselves on between the lines of whatever is being said from. The pulpit. Frederick Buechner
• If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold. Howard Schultz

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Impact Others With Value = An impact is something that makes a big impression on us. You can make a positive impact by clearly adding value to others. Do you have a positive impact on others? How can you make a positive impact on those you will be around today?

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Practice Good Values = John Maxwell considers his book, Change Your World, to be in his top 5! Watch as John discusses the inspiration behind the book and the transformational experience where John and his team helped people in other countries engage and practice good values. 

When people learn to live good values they become more valuable to themselves and others. Change Your World is a life-changing, transformational book.

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The Result of Making a Difference = When is the last time you made a positive impact on someone's life? John encourages you to look at your next few hours and think about how you can make an impact on those you interact with today!

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More than the Average Expectation = Do Something - Say Something - Be Something, all while making a difference in someone's life. 

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Hebrews 13:7 ISV Remember your leaders, those who have spoken God's word to you. Think about the impact of their lives, and imitate their faith.

Matthew 5:13-16 ESV “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

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The Bible’s Immeasurable Impact

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Planning Quotes

Quotes About Planning

• In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends. --LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
• The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. --ROBERT BURNS
• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. --ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. --Thomas Edison
• God should not be a backup plan and most definitely not a second choice.
• No better feeling than waking up. It reminds me just how much God loves me and that he has a greater plan for me. Good morning.

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Adjusting is Key = Life happens! You can't always have every step figured out, but you can always plan for different outcomes. Be prepared to shift, make adjustments, and be ready for any plan!

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Jeremiah 29:11 NIV - 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Proverbs 12:2 NLT - 2 The LORD approves of those who are good, but he condemns those who plan wickedness.

Proverbs 14:22 NLT - 22 If you plan to do evil, you will be lost; if you plan to do good, you will receive unfailing love and faithfulness.

Proverbs 16:30 NLT - 30 With narrowed eyes, people plot evil; with a smirk, they plan their mischief.

Proverbs 21:30 NLT - 30 No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the LORD.

Proverbs 31:15 NLT - 15 She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day's work for her servant girls.

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Adequate Quotes

Quotes about being Adequate

• My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. --George Washington

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Commit To Rising Above = No one wants to be average—stuck in the middle. View being average as something to conquer and rise above. Today, if you consider yourself average, do something above average. Wherever you are in life, increase the positives of who you are by doing a little extra.

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Go Beyond Adequate, Be Exceptional = The word adequate is often paired with average, and people often decide to be adequate in life. So many people settle for adequate, and learn to exist with this state. We were not born and created to be adequate, we were born to be exceptional. Go beyond adequate, it is a better way to live. 

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This belongs with average - it's simply existing. Do more, be more, and strive for better.

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2 Corinthians 2:16 NLT - 16 To those who are perishing, we are a dreadful smell of death and doom. But to those who are being saved, we are a life-giving perfume. And who is adequate for such a task as this?

Acts 18:26 NIV - 26 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.

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Hope Quotes

Quotes About Hope

• A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager. Sylvia Ashton-Warner
• A leader is a dealer in hope. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
• All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. -- Alexander Dumas
• Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. -- Martin Luther
• Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Great hopes make great men. --Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English Historian
• Hope for the best, with passion, conviction and faith. For when you do, you'll begin to see real, Workable ways to get there.
• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning.  You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world which surrounds you....  I can't imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.  The gift of hope is as big a gift as life itself. --Vaclav Havel
• Hope is a risk that must be run. --Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) Novelist and polemicist
• Hope is more than a feeling, it is a person -- the person of Jesus Christ.
• Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. -- Samuel Johnson
• Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality. --Avery D. Miller
• Hope is the oxygen of the soul.  Just as air can be knocked out of a persons lungs by a sudden blow, hope can be knocked out of a persons soul by the blows of life.
• Hope is the thing with feathers. That perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all. -- Emily Dickenson Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope. -- Charles D. Brodhead
• Hope knows not if fear speak truth, nor fear whether hope be not blind as she... --Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) Poet and critic
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. --Anonymous
• Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. --Samuel Smiles
• Human nature has grounds for hope, because love, in a sense, is inexhaustible. --Steve Allen (1921-2000) Comedian
• If it were not for hope, the heart would break. -- Author unknown
• Instead of worrying about the worst that could happen, Allow yourself to hope for the best that can happen. In your mind, make the most positive outcome real.
• Life may not be the party we hoped for .. but while we are here we might as well dance! --Unknown
• My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.  -- M. Lloyd-Jones
• None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet.
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. -- Helen Keller
• Replace your worry with hope. And fulfill your hope with action. Send positive thoughts to your most troubling situation. Soon you'll find yourself starting to act on those thoughts.
• Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosopher
• Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. They give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises. Romans 15:4 (NLT)
• The hopes of the world rest on the flexibility, vigor, capacity for new thought, and the fresh outlook of the young. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th U.S. President
• The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) Architect
• The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. --Socrates (469-399 BC) Greek Philosopher
• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver
• There is no situation so desperate that it cannot Be turned around. Always, there is a place and a purpose for hope. Hope for the best, and let that hope push you forward. With hope in your heart, you're well on your way.
• Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day. --Henri Nouwen
• True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. -- William Shakespeare
• We all hope for a –- must I say the word -– recipe, we all believe, however much we know we shouldn't, that maybe somebody's got the recipe and can show us how not to be sick, suffer and die. –- Nan Shin
• We look at life in our frustration and say, It is hopeless, I just have to learn to live with it. Jesus looks at life from the cross and said, There is hope, there is no need to give up.
• When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.
• When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. --Charles Allen
• Whenever hope and illusion become the source of the will to live, all knowledge of reality becomes highly threatening, since at any time a new piece of information might remove the grounds for this hope. When life is motivated by hope for improvement, denial of reality is necessarily renewed and fortified. -- Christina Thurmer-Rohr
• Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. --ANNE FRANK
• Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. --RED

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Be An Infinite Source Of Hope = The leaders that impact us the most are those that have given us the most hope for our potential. Good leaders deal out hope. There is still a chance—an opportunity to make a difference. Don’t give up, there is hope. Let’s build a better future together.

Hope is Necessary for Vision

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Stay Hopeful = People who have vision are hopeful and anticipate what is possible. Hope is necessary in order to have a clear and compelling vision. Sometimes it takes courage to stay hopeful. Make the decision today, to believe that something more and better is possible. Maintain hope, reach for your goals, and be willing to risk disappointment to stay hopeful. Hope is the key to discovering the meaningful, exciting vision that is meant for you.

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Be The Hope = People want a bright future, so give them hope. Whoever you come into contact with, you want to be able to express to them something positive that is in their life or that can happen in their life. We see what we look for—so help people look for hope. 

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Two Beautiful Daughters = Anger and Courage - Hope's two beautiful daughters. Anything is possible when you have a little bit of it, so choose to see the light even on the darker days.

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On this Christmas Eve, spend a moment and think of the hope! There is so much potential in this world and YOU can make a difference. We wish you all the happiness as you surround yourself with those near and dear to your heart this holiday week.

 

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Ephesians 1:18 NLT - 18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called--his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.

Ephesians 2:12 NLT - 12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Ephesians 4:4 NLT - 4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.

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Timing Quotes

Quotes About Timing

• Don’t try to rush things that need time to grow.
• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. ― Fulton J. Sheen
• Life is all about timing… the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable… attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It’s all about timing. – Stacey Charter
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Practice Your Timing, In Leadership = In his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell discusses the Law of Timing, which says that when to lead is as important as what to do and where to go. Success is a lot about timing. This is a difficult law to learn and you can improve your timing with practice! 

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"Do it now" = If there is one thing we've learned during these times, it's that time is precious. Every day is filled with new challenges, new excitement, and new adventures. The lesson here is: live in the moment, stop allowing time to pass. Act today on whatever it is you want to invest in - personal growth, new adventures, new businesses, and so much more!

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Galatians 4:4 NLT - 4 But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.

Galatians 6:9 NLT - 9 So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.

Ephesians 1:10 NLT - 10 And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth.

1 Timothy 6:15 NLT - 15 For at just the right time Christ will be revealed from heaven by the blessed and only almighty God, the King of all kings and Lord of all lords.

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Relentless Quotes

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• You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. --Steve Garvey
• Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their... --Chief Seattle

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Willing to be Patient = This will keep you in the game, even when you're ready to quit. Stay persistent, strong-headed, and remember, stay in the game. 

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Joel 2:13 NLT - 13 Don't tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead." Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish.

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Happiness Quotes

Quotes About Happiness

• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
• A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Beverly Sills (1929~) American Opera Singer
• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.  Foster C. McClellan
• Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
• Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. 
• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --STORM JAMESON
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
• Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder. --HENRY DAVID THOREAU
• Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. 
• Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.  Brian Tracy
• Happiness depends solely upon your own attitude. 
• Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. --NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
• Happiness is a healthy mental attitude, a grateful spirit, a clear conscience, and a heart full of love.
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson (submitted by Jillin2001)
• Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. William H. Sheldon
• Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
• Happiness is natural; joy is spiritual Kenny Martin
• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. Burton Hills
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Samuel Johnson
• Happiness is what you are, not what you have. 
• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann von Goethe
• I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. Epictetus
• I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition. Martha Washington
• I am happy and content because I think I am. Alain-Rene Lesage
• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
• If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? Blaise Pascal
• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. --ORSON WELLES
• I'm not one who feels that you have to be brave to be a star, but that your life can be satisfying and happy if you work to make a difference. The point is to make a difference by the way you live your life. Esther Peterson (1906-1997) Labor advocate and presidential advisor
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it's your disposition.
• It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. - Charles Spurgeon
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara DeAngelis
• Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death.  Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
• People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J. Harris
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. --DALE CARNEGIE
• Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. Gustave Le Bon
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
• Some pursue happiness - others create it. 
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist
• The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. Andrew Dunbar
• The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you." Klare Provine
• The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving. Anonymous
• The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. --BERTRAND RUSSELL
• The more importance that is placed on possessions in the pursuit of happiness, The more distance there is placed between happiness and the pursuer!
• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. CP Snow
• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. John D. Rockefeller III
• The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Henry Ward Beecher
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. Victor Hugo
• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. --WILLIAM MORRIS
• The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --MARCUS AURELIUS
• There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. --LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
• To describe happiness is to diminish it. Henri Stendhal
• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
• True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught, but never bought.
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
• We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.  Robert Urich
• We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
• We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
• We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Dean Stanley
• What happens if you're scared half to death TWICE?  Woody Paige
• When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. Mother Teresa
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes
• You can be happy no matter what your circumstances might be. 
• You can never get happy. You can always be happy. 
• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. --FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. --FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Anne Frank’s legacy of unshakeable hope gives great weight to this quote, which she wrote in her diary while enduring the horrors faced by Jewish families during the Holocaust. Entries Frank wrote while in hiding prove the young girl understood the infectious quality of happiness, and the importance of spreading joy during times of suffering.

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Have A Great Attitude = Attitude is everything. It is important to have a great attitude about yourself, other people, and life. It isn’t what happens to you, but what happens in you. If you can find the bright side of things in tough situations, keeping a positive attitude, you will be capable of happiness in any circumstance.

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Seek Value = True happiness comes from a deep inner satisfaction and knowledge that we are good people with good values, doing our best to make a difference in life. That is a happiness that doesn’t leave when the mood changes. If you seek happiness, it will often disappoint or disappear … But if you seek value, by adding value to people and making a positive difference, happiness will come to you.

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An Important Choice = Happiness starts with you. That's the key! You have the choice to decide how you will start each day, interact with those around you, and most importantly be for yourself. 

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Happiness Is an Inside Job = Happiness cannot be acquired. Often, people set out to pursue happiness in a spouse, a friend, a job, a family, a home, a title or a whole lot of money. But happiness isn’t “out there.” Happiness starts inside of you. It is a gift you can give to yourself.

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Deuteronomy 24:5 NLT - 5 "A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given any other official responsibilities. He must be free to spend one year at home, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.

Psalm 86:4 NLT - 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.

Proverbs 10:28 NLT - 28 The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.

Ecclesiastes 2:3 NLT - 3 After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT - 10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Ecclesiastes 8:15 NLT - 15 So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.

Luke 6:24 NLT - 24 "What sorrow awaits you who are rich, for you have your only happiness now.

Luke 12:32 NLT - 32 "So don't be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

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