Blessings Quotes

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

Homer, The Iliad

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Jimmy Carte

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

William Gladstone

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

Carl Sandburg

Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride

All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Twelve

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

Clarence E. Hodges

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - And if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On".

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Sir Winston Churchill

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffe

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Serge Kahili King

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Miguel de Cervantes

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Churchill

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Titus Livius

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes