Diana Derringer > Diana's Quotes

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God’s handwriting—a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11”
― Jeremiah , NIV, Books of the Bible

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
― Colin Powell

“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness

“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
― Edward J. Stieglitz

“Lost time is never found again.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God.”
― William Carey

“The heart, like the mind, has a memory.
And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“So, Lord, once again, I give it all to You. I surrender all my past efforts, all my present circumstances, and all my future. I know I will encounter new fears, possibly have additional pain, and will continue to face physical and emotional changes in the days to come. But nothing is stronger than You and Your love. I choose to believe You. I surrender all.”
― Judy Sliger, Take Heart: Prayers for the Terminally Ill

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

“Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
― William James

“We best learn patience by practicing it.”
― Jim Elliot

“Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Life can only be understood going backward, but must be lived going forward.”
― SOREN KIERKEGAARD

“Although I'm marked by my inner scars, I'm also empowered by my experiences.”
― Cecil Murphy