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Thursday, August 22, 2024

Adequate Quotes

Quotes About 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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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Planning Quotes

Quotes About Plan 

  • 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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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.
Ephesians 1:9 God has now revealed to us his mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill his own good pleasure.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 19:21 ESV Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Psalm 37:4 ESV Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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Monday, August 05, 2024

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 lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. --FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
  • 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 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. 
  • Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable. --Alexander the Great

 


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 Positive 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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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. 




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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Sunday, August 04, 2024

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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Saturday, August 03, 2024

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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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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Friday, August 02, 2024

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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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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