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Friday, April 05, 2024

Patience Quotes

Quotes About Patience 

  • Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. --RALPH EMERSON
  • Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. --Jen Hatmaker
  • How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees? --William Shakespeare
  • If you rush it, you will ruin it. Pause, pray, and be patient.
  • Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. --BRIAN ADAMS
  • Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. --John Quincy Adams, American President (1767-1848)
  • Patience is also a form of action. -- Auguste Rodin (French artist Auguste Rodin understood well the inherent virtue of patience. He is known for his expressive sculptures — most famously “The Thinker,” completed in 1904. Rodin spent long hours carefully crafting his creations from bronze and marble. His masterpieces, as well as his quote here, remind us that slowing down and taking time for contemplation are also crucial parts of moving forward.
  • Patience is being friends with Time.  --Vanna Bonta
  • Patience is passion tamed. --Lyman Abbott, American Author (1835-1922)
  • Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.  --Napoleon Hill
  • Some of your greatest blessings come with patience. --Warren W. Wiersbe
  • Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. --George Bernard Shaw
  • Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. --Margaret Atwood
  • We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. --Helen Keller
  • Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. --Elon Musk







Patience may be a virtue, but it's a difficult one to cultivate — especially in a world that is moving ever-faster. Yet with this quote, Enlightenment-era philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau reminds us that patience also comes with great rewards. Such rewards are never instant, but can increase over time, like an investment that must be allowed to mature. Research suggests that people who cultivate patience experience better mental and even physical health, and have happier relationships with others over the course of their lives.




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Praise in Public, Admonish in Private
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Praise In Public = Patience is not being patient with poor performance, it is being patient with how we handle poor performance. Leaders need to hold people accountable and have difficult conversations, but it is important to give praise in public, and admonish in private. How can you become a more loving servant leader? Be more patient!



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1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
1 Peter 3:20 - because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.
2 Peter 3:15 - And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
Colossians 3:12 Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Ecclesiastes 7:8 Finishing is better than starting. Patience is better than pride.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Galatians 5:22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 6:9 ESV And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Genesis 18:31 (MSG) He pushed on, “I know I’m trying your patience, Master, but how about for twenty?” “I won’t destroy it for twenty.”
Hebrews 6:12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
James 5:8 You, too, must be patient. Take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Proverbs 14:29 (MSG) Slowness to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles stupidity.
Psalm 37:7 ESV Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalms 37:7 (MSG) Quiet down before God , be prayerful before him. Don’t bother with those who climb the ladder, who elbow their way to the top.
Revelation 3:10 (MSG) “Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I’ll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test.
Romans 12:12 ESV Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 8:25 ESV But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Dedicated Quotes

Quotes About Dedication 

  • Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. --CHARLES DICKENS







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Trim Away Distractions = When we are dedicated, we are committed. This means we may have to let some things go in order to focus-in on a priority. This can be difficult with all of life’s demands and distractions … But to accomplish things that truly matter, you have to be willing to dedicate yourself. What do you need to dedicate yourself to today? 

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The best compliment you could ever receive, is that someone else can count on you. Being able to be counted on, dependable, reliable, consistent, these are all admirable qualities that speak to your level of dedication. When you are dedicated to a job, a task, a relationship, or anything else in life, you will become the type of person others can count on. 

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1 Corinthians 4:10 NLT  Our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools, but you claim to be so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are so powerful! You are honored, but we are ridiculed.
1 Samuel 1:28 Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord." Then they worshiped the Lord there.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness [to be dedicated, and set apart by behavior that pleases Him, whether in public or in private].
John 10:22 - At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
Proverbs 20:25 (MSG) An impulsive vow is a trap; later you’ll wish you could get out of it.
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Habit Quotes

Quotes About Habit 

  • Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. – Anonymous
  • Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. 
  • Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffet
  • Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you. Rob Gilbert
  • Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do. - Sean Covey
  • Establish habits of faith that will hold you firm in unsteady times. 
  • Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing. --WILT CHAMBERLAIN
  • Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly.  Shaquille O'Neal
  • Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman
  • Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie
  • First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you. - Rob Gilbert
  • Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. Tim McCarver
  • He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads Thomas Jefferson
  • I have a habit of falling too hard and falling too fast and getting my hopes up for something that won't last.
  • If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. - Aristotle
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin
  • It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.
  • It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! --Merril Markoe
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. 
  • Ninety-nine percent of the failures comes from people who have the habit of making excuses. George W. Carve
  • Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 17) Roman poet.
  • Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid (43 BC-17); Roman poet.
  • Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. Herman Melville
  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. --THOMAS A. EDISON
  • People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold. John Jay Chapman
  • Quality is not an act, it is a habit. - Aristotle
  • The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – SAMUEL JOHNSON
  • The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires. J. Paul Getty
  • The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. Napoleon Hill
  • There are two types of habits: ones which comfort us, and ones which would be a comfort if we stopped. – Catherine Pulsifer
  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.  --WILL DURANT
  • We become what we habitually contemplate. George Russell
  • We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. – John Dryden
  • When I tell you I love you, I don't say it out of habit. I say it to remind you that you are the best thing that has ever happened to me.
  • Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do. Albert Gray
  • Without the work of the cross we would be quite helpless. The cross enables us to come out free from under the heaviest and most powerful mental bondage. Not all the power of Satan, or sin, or habit can hold us captive any longer Tom Marshall
  • You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.  Vince Lombardi
  • Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny. --MARGARET THATCHER
  • Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all. --Ovid
  • A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. --DESIDERIUS ERASMUS




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Improve Your Life With Good Habits - In James Clear’s book Atomic Habits, he teaches us how to cultivate good habits. One of the things he teaches is that once you create good habits in your life, your life automatically improves. Build your habits based on your identity and who you are for best results. 


Should we make a habit of it or not? We all have habits—habits are the things that we do without thinking. Some habits are good, and some are bad. But while they all come to us naturally, we should make an effort to be aware of them.



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1 John 1:9 If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 5:13 NIV 13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to.
Hebrews 10:25 - not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Hebrews 10:25 NIV 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
James 5:16 Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Lamentations 2:2 - The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
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Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Powerful Quotes

Quotes About Power 

  • Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two. --Eric Daniels
  • Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. --Edward Abbey, American Author (1927-1989)
  • Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant. --Seth
  • Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. --Publilius Syrus
  • Powerful people have no regrets. --Gregory David Roberts



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True Power is the Relinquishing of Power
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Relinquish Your Power = George Washington relinquished his power when he decided not to be king. He wasn’t willing to allow power to corrupt his character. Great leaders leverage their power for the sake of others, and at some point, they relinquish their power.
As a customer, you can leverage your power by thanking those who serve you. By doing this, you relinquish your power for the good of others through encouragement. You become a powerful voice in another’s life. As a leader, look for ways to relinquish and release your power for the sake of those around you.



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1 Corinthians 1:18 The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God.
1 Peter 5:6 (NCV) Be humble under God’s powerful hand so he will lift you up when the right time comes.
Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Acts 18:28 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 19:11 God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles.
Acts 2:22 "Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know --
Colossians 1:29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.
Ephesians 6:10 A final word: Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.
Job 36:5 (NCV) “God is powerful, but he does not hate people; he is powerful and sure of what he wants to do.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Matthew 19:26 (MSG) Jesus looked hard at them and said, “No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it.”
Psalms 89:8 (NCV) Lord God All-Powerful, who is like you? Lord, you are powerful and completely trustworthy.
Romans 8:2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
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Monday, April 01, 2024

Fool Quotes

Quotes About Fool 

  • A fool judges people by the presents they give him.  Chinese Proverb 
  • A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. - Benjamin Franklin
  • A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. --Bruce Lee
  • A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. --Lord Acton
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. --Benjamin Franklin
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. --Henry David Thoreau
  • Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein (1879-1955); physicist and mathematician.
  • Enjoy the little you have while the fool is hunting more. Old Spanish proverb
  • Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. Harry Anderson
  • I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. - Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.  
  • Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. Euripides, 484 - 406 BC
  • The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard P. Feynman
  • The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. --William Blake
  • The greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
  • The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. --HERMANN HESSE
  • The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. Lillian Hellman 
  • We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! –Jeremy Taylor
  • Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. –Charles Spurgeon
  • You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think. - Talmud
  • You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, "My, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"  Dave Barry 
  • Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself. --Teller




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Proverbs 18:2 ESV A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Proverbs 29:11 ESV A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.
Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Proverbs 29:9 (NIV) If a wise person goes to court with a fool, the fool rages and scoffs, and there is no peace.
Proverbs 17:21 (NIV) To have a fool for a child brings grief; there is no joy for the parent of a godless fool.
Job 5:2 (NIV) Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Ecclesiastes 2:16 (NIV) For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!
2 Corinthians 11:16 (NIV) I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
Proverbs 10:18 (NIV) Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:10 (NIV) Whoever winks maliciously causes grief, and a chattering fool comes to ruin.
Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,
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