Brenda E. Mcdaniel > Brenda's Quotes

“You may have people coming against you, trying to discredit you, make you look bad. You don’t have to fight that battle; just outlast them, just keep doing the right thing. Keep being faithful each day and God will take care of who’s trying to stop you.”
― Joel Osteen

“The best legacy a man can leave his children is the memory and influence of a large, broad, finely developed mentality, a well-disciplined, highly cultured mind, a sweet, beautiful character which has enriched everybody who came in contact with it, a refined personality, a magnanimous spirit.”
― Orison Swett Marden

“We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.”
― Swindoll Charles R.

“By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Be someone who celebrates the victories and blessings of others around you. It’s contagious!”
― Joni Lamb

“Man often counts his troubles without counting his joys. If we only counted our joys as we should, we would see that we have enough happiness to outweigh all our troubles.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu

“We need to start seeing ourselves the way God sees us, because it's such a healing thing to begin to like yourself instead of being against yourself.”
― Joyce Meyer

“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, responsible, honorable, compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
― Leo Rosten

“The more you look for positive aspects of your current life, the more positive aspects will step forward to reveal themselves to you.”
― Abraham Hicks

“Whenever you look at your weaknesses, spend equal time considering your strengths. Give yourself credit for all accomplishments or improvements, even the smallest ones. Improve your mind - read a book, write a story.”
― Don Merki

“Accept mistakes and errors as learning tools rather than as signs of your failure. Reject any negative feedback from others that is intended to put you down. Practice visualizing situations in which you are successful.”
― Don Merki

“Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.”
― Doris Mortman

“You shouldn't become too concerned about what others might think of you. You should be more concerned about what you think of yourself.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.”
― Jim Sundberg

“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone that isn't trying.”
― Tony Robbins

“Accept your past without regrets. Handle your present with confidence. Face your future without fear.”
― Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Hell Divers

“He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome. His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit which does not fall prematurely to the ground.”
― James Allen

“But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften towards him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo, opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame.”
― James Allen

“A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years … the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
― Rachel Carson

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.”
― Rachel Carson

“You are doing better than you think. Step by step, day by day you are making progress. Trust the process. Life has a way of giving you what you want in the most unexpected ways. It will happen when you are ready and the time is right. Just keep moving forward. You're closer than you think.”
― Mel Robbins

“Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.”
― Stacy London

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”
― Desiderata

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget... Here we are on this earth, with only a few decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.”
― André Maurois

“Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
― The Bible

“There are three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday's mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow's problems, and ingratitude for today's blessings.”
― William Ward

“Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.