Famous Quotes: G
Generosity
”Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not high-minded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.” (1 Timothy 6: 17-19)
“Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9:7)
“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.” (Saint Ignatius Loyola)
“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” (Francesco Guicciardini)
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.’ (Anna Jameson)
“Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.” (John D. Rockefeller, Jr.)
“I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.” (George Bush)
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” (Winston Churchill)
“To generous souls every task is noble.” (Euripides)
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” (Nelson Henderson)
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” (Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco)
”The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.” (Thomas Kinkade)
“It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.” (Richard Braunstein)
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” (Mother Teresa)
Gentleness
““A soft answer turneth away wrath; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.”
(Proverbs 15:1)
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5)
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matthew 11: 29)
“Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.” (Philippians 4: 5)
“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on 'giving as good as they get.’” (Elbert Hubbard)
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one - - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” (C.S. Lewis)
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” (William Hazlitt)
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” (Mohandas Gandhi)
“Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.” (Mo Udall)
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” (Plato)
Goals
“I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.” (Philippians 4:13)
“...forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3: 13-14)
“A man’s goings are established of Jehovah; and he delighteth in his way.” (Psalm 37: 23)
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:19)
“For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.” (Psalm 48:14)
“And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2)
“And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.” (Deuteronomy 31:8)
“Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy purposes shall be established.” (Proverbs 16:3)
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.” (Saint Jerome)
”The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
“It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.” (Roger Babson)
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.” (Jim Rohn)
“A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.” (Anonymous)
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” (Charles H. Spurgeon)
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” (Sarah Louise Delaney)
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” (Zig Ziglar)
“Dare mighty things, even though checkered with failure, rather than rank with those grey sold that know neither victory or defeat.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
“Aligning our life with God’s purpose for us gives is a sense of destiny...It gives form and direction to our life.” (Jean Fleming)
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” (Langson Hughes)
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” (William James)
“Dream manfully and nobly and thy dreams shall be thy prophets.” (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (Chinese proverb)
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” (Benjamin Mays)
“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.” (Alexander Graham Bell)
“The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.” (Marcus Aurelius)
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.” (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
“Never look back unless you plan to go that way.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“There is no achievement without goals.” (Robert J. McKain)
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” (T.S. Elliot)
“Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you’re only looking for a lucky break.” (Monta Crane)
“To accomplish gig things, I am convinced, you must first dream big dreams.” (Conrad Hilton)
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” (Elbert Hubbard)
“Keep your face in the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.” (Helen Keller)
“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” (Anonymous)
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” (Ralph Emerson)
“Set positive goals and reasonable expectations.” (Steve Strasser)
“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” (St. Francis of Assisi)
“Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off your goal.” (Wally “Famous” Amos)
“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably wind up somewhere else.” (Dr. L. J. Peter)
“If your head doesn’t get there first, you never will.” (Earnie Larson)
Gratitude
““And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.” (Colossians 3: 15)
“Oh give thanks unto the God of gods; for his lovingkindness endureth forever.”
(Psalm 136.2)
“in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.”
(1Thessalonians 5: 18)
“Our favorite attitude should be gratitude.” (Anonymous)
“Thank God ahead of time.” (Fr. Solanus Casey)
“I have learned, in whatsoever state I am in, therewith to be content.” (Saint Paul)
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” (G.K. Chesterton)
“If you haven’t got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.” (Anonymous)
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” (William Arthur Ward)
“Thank God for what doesn’t need healing.” (Joan Borysenko)
“If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you” that would suffice.”
(Meister Eckhart)
“The secret to life is to know when enough is enough.” (Dr. Vincent Ryan)
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” (Marcus Tulius Cicero)
“Count your blessings, not your worries.” (Anonymous)
“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.” (Native American proverb)
“Those who can give thanks for little will always find they have enough.” (Unknown)
Greatness
“Praise him for his mighty acts:Praise him according to his excellent greatness.” (Psalm 150:2)
“Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.“ (Psalm 145:3)
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.” (Winston Churchill)
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble” (Helen Keller)
“To be simple is to be great.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” (William Hazlitt)
“You don’t have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.” (Les Brown)
Greed
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s." (Exodus 20: 17)
“Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” (Luke 12: 15)
“For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.” (Psalm 10: 3)
“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” (Frank Buchman)
“Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.” (Cyril Connolly)
“Big mouthfuls often choke.” (Italian proverb)
“To greed, all nature is insufficient.” (Seneca)
“A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.” (Swiss proverb)
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger and greed.” (Bhagavad Gita)
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” (Erich Fromm)
Grief and Loss
“A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.” (Proverbs 15: 13)
“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” (Isaiah 53: 4)
“O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:55-57)
“Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry.” (Psalm 39:12)
“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5: 3, 4)
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4)
“Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.” (Psalm 34:18)
“Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness. Jehovah is good to all; And his tender mercies are over all his works.” (Psalm 145: 8, 9)
“He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces . . “. (Isaiah 25:8)
“. . . and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” (Isaiah 35: 10)
“Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.” (Frank Moore Colby)
“There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth.” (Anonymous)
“Time is a physician that heals every grief.” (Diphilus)
“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” (Anonymous)
“Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.” (Mary C. Crowley)
“God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.“ (Anonymous)
“Your goal should be just out of reach but not out of sight.” (Denis Waitely and Reni L. Witt)
“Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry.” (Psalm 39:12)
“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.” (Cicero)
“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.” (Mary Baker Eddy)
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” (Milton Erickson, M.D.)
"The harshest winter finds in us an invincible spring." (Albert Camus)
“Can we find a friend so faithful,
Who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness:
Take it to the Lord in prayer.”
(Joseph Scriven)
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” (Mark Twain)
Growth
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also doth not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psalms 1:3)
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (2 Peter: 3:18)
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13: 11)
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Grow where you are planted.” (Anonymous)
“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.” (Charles H. Spurgeon)
“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
(Irish proverb)
"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." (Karen Kaiser Clark)
“The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity." (Clarence Cramer)
"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - - it's growth - - mental, financial, you name it." (Harold S. Geneen)
“If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.” (Jim Rohn)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” (Anonymous)
“Excellence is an art. . .We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle)
“People change and forget to tell one another.” (Lillian Hellman)
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” (Gail Sheehy)
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” (Pearl S. Buck)
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” (Jean Vanier)
“God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.” (Leighton Ford)
“We find comfort among those who agree with us - - growth among those who don’t.” (Frank A. Clark)
“Adversity precedes growth.” (Rosemarie Rossetti)
“And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.” (George MacDonald)
Guilt
“When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.” (Bill Lemley)
“That which we call sin in others is experiment in us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.” (Sarah Brown)
“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.” (Byron J. Langenfield)
“What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don’t like about ourselves.” (William Wharton)
