Famous Quotes: M
Marriage
“Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.” (1 Peter 3:7)
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.” (Anonymous)
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” (André Maurois)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” (Mignon McLaughlin)
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” (Leo Tolstoy)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” (Mignon McLaughlin)
“The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.” (Amy Grant)
Materialism
“Too much is never enough.” (Mark Twain)
“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.” (Henri Frédéric Amiel)
“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.” (Bertrand)
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” (Sorem Kierkegaard)
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.” (Thomas Harris)
“The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the fence. Sometimes it’s just artificial turf.” (Anonymous)
“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.” (Edwin Way Teale)
“Less is more.” (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Mercy
“His mercy is unto generations and generations on them that fear him.” (Luke 1: 50)
“Teach me to feel another’s woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.” (Alexander Pope)
“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.” (Matthew 5:7)
“Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.” (Psalm 103:8)
“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.” (William Shakespeare)
“The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” (William Shakespeare)
“Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.” (Richard Carlson)
“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” (Scott Adams)
Ministry
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” (Anne Frank)
“Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.” (Unknown)
Miracles
“And as he was now drawing nigh, even at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen . . .” (Luke 19: 37)
“And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he continued with Philip; and beholding signs and great miracles wrought, he was amazed.”
(Acts 8: 13)
“And when the sabbath was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, Whence hath this man these things? and, What is the wisdom that is given unto this man, and what mean such mighty works wrought by his hands?” (Mark 6: 2)
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Richard Crashaw)
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” (Saint Augustine)
“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.” (Bernard Berenson)
“I am realistic, I expect miracles.” (Wayne Dyer)
“Don't believe in miracles, depend on them.” (Laurence J. Peter)
Mission (See also Purpose and Work)
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.” (Richard Bach)
“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.” (Zig Ziglar)
“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.” (W. Clement Stone)
"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God." (William Carey)
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." (Jim Elliott)
"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time." (Carl F. H. Henry)
Mistakes
“When you learn from your mistakes, hindsight becomes foresight.” (Jan Hendricks)
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." (Orlando A. Battista)
“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” (Henry C. Link)
”Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” (Winston Churchill)
Money
“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6: 10)
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.” (Matthew 6: 19-21)
“For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?” (Mark 8:36)
“What some people mistake for the high cost of living is the cost of living high.” (Doug Larson)
“There are no pockets in a shroud.” (Robert Service)
“I’ve never see a hearse pulling a U-Haul.” (John MacArthur)
“You can’t take it with you, but you can send it on ahead.” (Anonymous)
“The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.” (B. C. Forbes)
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he can not lose.” (Anonymous)
“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure is, there is your heart; where your heart is, there is your happiness.” (Saint Augustine)
“All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me." (St. Augustine)
“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.” (Kin Hubbard)
“Money is a good servant but a bad master.” (Aristodemus)
“Money often costs too much.”(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.” (Anonymous)
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“The bigger the bankroll the tighter the rubber band.” (Anonymous)
“A fool and his money are soon parted.” (Thomas Tusser)
“Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.” (Anonymous)
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.” (J. Paul Getty)
“Money doesn't talk, it swears.” (Bob Dylan)
“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.” (Tom Brokaw)
“I am the most miserable man on earth.” (John Jacob Astor)
“I was happier when doing a mechanic’s job.” (Henry Ford)
“I have made many millions, but they have brought me no happiness.” (John D. Rockefeller)
“Money is for making memories.” (Donna Zubert)
Motherhood
“My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.” (Proverbs 6:20)
“A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” (Proverbs 10: 1)
“A mother understands what a child does not say.” (Jewish proverb)
“My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.” (Proverbs 6:20)
“A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” (Proverbs 10: 1)
“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” (Spanish proverb)
“A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done.” (Anonymous)
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.” (Jane Sellman)
“Mother's love grows by giving.” (Charles Lamb)
Motivation
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” (Stephen R. Covey)
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything” (Napoleon Hil)
“No pain, no gain.” (Anonymous)
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” (John Wooden)
“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can” (Lowell Thomas)
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” (Jim Ryun)
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - - that's why we recommend it daily.” (Zig Ziglar )
“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” (Napoleon Hill)
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily.” (Zig Ziglar)
