Quotes
Let’s be honest–there are days when you just don’t want to do what you know you’re supposed to be doing (and days when you have no idea what you’re supposed to be doing). This page contains quotes that have motivated me to get up, buck up, and “cowgirl up” when needed.
Have a quote that works for you that isn’t here? Please let me know those (complete with the author) so that MIP readers can benefit from them, too. I would love for this page to get so long that I have to start categorizing these quotes onto several web pages! And many thanks to my FB friends who supplied several of the quotes down below.
A # 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. –Joyce Meyer
Are you willing to be inconvenienced for your church? –Christine Caine
Become the women of destiny we are called to be. –Priscilla Shirer
Be the hero in your own survival story. –MaryAnn Arnold
Be the miracle. –Jim Carrey, Bruce Almighty
Desire to inspire
The best in others, do not
Obsess to impress
–David Mattson (one of his many haikus!)
Don’t choose the better guy. Choose the guy who will make you a better woman. –Chelsea Handler, This Means War
Don’t fear the tears. –MaryAnn Arnold
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. ” –Robert Louis Stevenson
Enthusiasm moves the world. –Arthur Balfour
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. –Joseph Campbell
God cannot multiply what you don’t recognize. –Christine Caine
God doesn’t need a nap before He can handle you. –Priscilla Shirer
God has your back. –Priscilla Shirer
God is so much more than you know. –Patsy Clairmont
God’s power is often seen in what He refrains Himself from doing. –Priscilla Shirer
God started with Jesus and 11 disciples and 1 traitor. There are now 2.18 billion Christians today. A little sharing, over a lot of time, goes a long way when it’s a message of truth. –MaryAnn Arnold
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. –Jim Rohn
Happiness never decreases by being shared. –Buddha
Hope is a waking dream. –Aristotle
I am where I am because God wanted me right where I am to serve right here. –Priscilla Shirer
I don’t need God to bless me…I need to be around what God is blessing. –Wm. Paul Young (with a MaryAnn paraphrase!)
I don’t talk too much…You just need to hear a lot. –MaryAnn Arnold
If you are broken into a thousand pieces, collect and gather the broken pieces and just see what God will do with them. –Christine Caine
If you can’t love it, just decorate it. –Anita RenfroeI had not been cheated; I had been chosen for that location…for that ministry. –Priscilla Shirer
I had not been cheated; I had been chosen for that location…for that ministry. –Priscilla Shirer
I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out–plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future that you hope for. –Jeremiah 29:10-11, The Message
I’ll never let you down, never walk off and leave you. –Hebrews 13:5-6, The Message
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. –Mahatma Gandhi
It’s not what you are that holds you back; it’s what you think you’re not. –Denis Waitley
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. –Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own
I try to focus on who I am rather than who I’m not. –Mariska Hargitay, Ladies Home Journal interview
I’ve been around the block so many times, I’ve worn out the curb. –Patsy Clairmont
Jesus doesn’t show up until it’s impossible to do it without Him. Impossible is where Jesus starts. –Christine Caine
Just because they make it in your size doesn’t mean you should wear it. –Anita Renfroe
Just like deodorant, we need to ‘put on God’ every day. — Priscilla Shirer
Lasting external change comes from changing ourselves from the inside out. –Priscilla Shirer
Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste Godliness? –Matt. 5:13, The Message
Live your life by the “What if…” game. Instead of saying, “I can’t,” try saying, “What if I can…” instead….And then you have to believe it, and act it, with all that you are. –Mariska Hargitay, Ladies Home Journal interview
My doctor said, “You are what you eat.” Therefore, I want to eat a skinny chick. –Anita Renfroe
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, “I’m possible.” –Audrey Hepburn
People only bring up your past when they are intimidated by your present. –Unknown
Praise and worship is not about you. –Sheryl Brady
Remember: When you leave Earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received–only what you have given. –Unknown
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. –Matt. 6:33, KJV
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. –Warren Buffett
Stop believing the lies told to you when you were young. –Patsy Clairmont
The Friend…the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you. I’m leaving you well and whole. –John 14: 25-26, The Message
This is supposed to be an encouragement so you want more of Him. –Priscilla Shirer
This is true joy in life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. -George Bernard Shaw
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. –Jim Rohn
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. –Ronald Reagan
We play so hard to get with God. –Sheryl Brady
We see the enormity and think we can’t do everything. So, we do nothing instead of doing one thing to start something. –Christine Caine
We shouldn’t just memorize, but internalize. –Patsy Clairmont
What are you going to do today to get yourself closer to your goal? –Mariska Hargitay’s father
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you. –Author Unknown
You are closer to the miracle than you have ever been. –Sheryl Brady
You are like a little kid with power tools…you’re dangerous! –Mercy Me
You are more than you know. You are going to have to take some risks to prove that you are more than you know. –Patsy Clairmont
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. –C.S. Lewis
You are not an accident! God knew you were going to be here today when you were born. If you think it was a miracle you were born, it was even more of a miracle that you were born again. The Hound of Heaven has been looking for you. –Priscilla Shirer
You are the answer to your own prayer. –Christine Caine
You change your life by changing your heart. –Max Lucado
You don’t know how important Jesus is until He’s all you’ve got. –Sheryl Brady
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Your present circumstances do not determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. –Nido Qubein
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