Famous Quotes: P
Parenting
“Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.” (Exodus 20: 12)
“A wise son maketh a glad father.” (Proverbs 10:1)
“Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.” (Deuteronomy 12:28)
“But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children’s children;” (Psalms 103:17)
“Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Psalms 127:3)
“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.” (Proverbs 1:8)
“Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.” (Proverbs 17:6)
“A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, blessed are his children after him.” (Proverbs 20:7)
“Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.” (Proverbs 23:22)
“The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.” (Proverbs 23:24)
“The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.” (Proverbs 29:15)
“And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah; and great shall be the peace of thy children.” (Isaiah 54:13)
“And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me: 18:6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18: 5, 6)
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it. “(Proverbs 22:6)
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.” (Ephesians 6:4)
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” (Angela Schwindt)
“Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.” (Chinese Proverb)
“The best academy....a mother's knee.” (James Lowell)
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad.” (Anonymous)
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." (Sigmund Freud)
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." (George Herbert)
"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." (Clarence Budington Kelland)
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
(Ruth E. Renkel )
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." (Anonymous)
“No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.” (Knights of Pythagorus)
“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” (Theodore M. Hesburgh)
“The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.” (Anonymous)
“Noble fathers have noble children.” (Euripides)
Patience
“For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.” (Hebrews 10:36)
“Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.” (Lamentations 3:25)
“Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way.” (Psalm 37: 7)
“ . . .but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40: 31)
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” (Saint Augustine)
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” (Phaedrus)
“They also serve who only stand and wait.” (John Milton)
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Peace
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7)
“And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” (Isaiah 11:6)
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.” (John 14:27)
“For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.” (Larry Eisenberg)
“To get Peace you must work for Justice.” (Pope John Paul VI)
“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.” (Dwight d. Eisenhower)
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.” (Isaiah 26:3)
“If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.” (Romans 12:18)
“These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (Philippians 16:33)
“Until you make peace with who you are you’ll never be content with what you have.” (Doris Mortman)
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Perfection
“Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect . . .” (Matthew 5: 48)
“. . .and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation . . .“ (Hebrews 5: 9)
“. . . being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ . . .” (Philippians 1:6)
“And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.” (1 Peter: 5: 10)
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.” (St. Augustine)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” (Henry van Dyke)
“No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.” (Anonymous)
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” (Harriet Braiker)
“To escape criticism - - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” (Elbert Hubbard)
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” (Confucius)
“I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.” (Michelle Shocked)
Persistence
“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7: 8)
“For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.”
(Romans 15:4)
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.” (James 1: 12)
“Rejoice always; pray without ceasing. . .” (1 Thessalonians 5: 16)
“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.” (Napolean Hill)
“You get as many second chances as you want.” (Wally “Famous” Amos)
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge)
“Inch by inch it’s a cinch.” (Robert Schuller)
“People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.” (Thomas Edison)
"Energy and persistence conquer all things." (Benjamin Franklin)
"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." (Og Mandino)
“It’s always too soon to quit.” (Steve Spurrier)
”It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get back up.” (Vince Lombardi)
“Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” (Confucius)
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” (Elbert Hubbard)
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.” (Calvin Coolidge)
“We can do anything we want, if we stick with it long enough.” (Helen Keller)
"When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit."
(Anonymous)
Poor, Poverty
”And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.” (Luke 6: 20, 21)
“For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.” (Matthew 26: 11)
“For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy brother, to thy needy, and to thy poor, in thy land.” (Deuteronomy 15: 11)
“I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted,
And justice for the needy.” (Psalm 140: 12)
“Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?” (James 2: 5)
“. . . the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.” (Matthew 11: 5)
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor . . “ (Luke 4: 18)
Popularity
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.” (William Penn)
“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” (Horace Greeley)
“Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.” (Heinrich Mann)
Power
“Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.” (Robert G. Ingersoll)
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton)
Prayer
“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7: 7,8)
“Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” (Mark 11: 24)
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41)
"If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” (John 15:7)
"In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” (Philippians 4: 6)
"And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him." (1 John 5:14,15)
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.” (Jeremiah 29: 11,12)
“When thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.” (Matthew 6:6)
“The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.” (Psalm 34:15)
“He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.” (Psalm 91:15)
“Wishing will never be a substitute for prayer.” (Ed Cole)
“Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.” (Adam Clarke)
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” (Mother Teresa)
“Be careful what you pray for. You just might get it.” (Anonymous)
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” (Soren Kierkegaard)
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.” (Satchel Paige)
“Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.” (Samuel M. Shoemaker)
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” (Oswald Chambers)
“Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.” (George Buttrick)
"A Sunday well-spent brings a week of contentment." (Proverb)
“Do not make prayer a monologue - - make it a conversation.”” (Anonymous)
“If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.” (Lyell Rader)
“Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.” (David J. Wolpe)
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.” (George Herbert)
“A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.” (Doris Lessing)
“Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.” (Anonymous)
“Seven days without prayer makes one weak.” (Anonymous)
“Pray for what you want, but work for what you need. “ (Proverb)
“If your knees are knocking, kneel on them.” (Anonymous)
"The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance between your knees and the floor.” (Anonymous)
“The one who kneels to the Lord can stand up to anything!" (Anonymous)
Prejudice
“Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, can not see what is plain.” (Alex T. DeVere)
“It is easier to love humanity than to love one’s neighbor.” (Eric Hoffer)
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” (William James)
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.” (James Russell Lowell)
“Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.” (Charles Simmons)
“Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.”
(Francois De La Rochefoucald)
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” (John 8:7)
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." (Abraham Lincoln)
"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them." (Charles West)
Pride
“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18)
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.” (Proverbs 11:2)
“He hath showed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.” (Luke 1: 51)
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” (John Ruskin)
“Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!” (Anonymous)
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.” (Mary H. Waldrip)
“Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.” (Adlai Stevenson)
“Pride is the mask of one’s own faults.” (Jewish proverb)
“Swallowing your pride seldom leads to indigestion.” (Anonymous)
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” (John Ruskin)
“Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.” (Anonymous)
“Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.” (Jesse Jackson)
Problems
“The urgent problems are seldom the important ones.” (Dwight Eisenhower)
“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” (John Foster Dulles)
“A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.” (Edward DeBono)
Purpose (See also Work and Mission)
“Commit thy works unto Jehovah, and thy purposes shall be established.” (Proverbs 16:3)
“I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.” (Psalm 32:8)
“And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28)
“Act as if what you do makes a difference.” (William James)
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.” (D. Elton Trueblood)
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” (Nelson Henderson)
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” (Robert Byrne)
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” (Washington Irving)
“The purpose of life is not to be happy - - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” (Leo Rosten)
“The true joy of life (is) being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.” (George Bernard Shaw)
"If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough." (Wes Jackson)
“Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.” (Charles Allen)
