Motivational Pep Talk Quotes & Sayings

Soon, I'm comfy. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician. — Dean Koontz

Think of the many, many stories about God choosing people. There are Moses, Abraham, and Sarah; there are David, Jeremiah, Gideon, Samuel, Jonah, and Isaiah. There is Israel itself. Much later there are Peter and Paul, and, most especially, Mary.
God is always choosing people. First impressions aside, God is not primarily choosing them for a role or a task, although it might appear that way. God is really choosing them to be God's self in this world, each in a unique situation. If they allow themselves to experience being chosen, being a beloved, being somehow God's presence in the world, they invariably communicate that same chosenness to others. And thus the Mystery passes on from age to age. Yes, we do have roles and tasks in this world, but finally they are all the same - to uniquely be divine love in a way that no one else can or will. — Richard Rohr

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule. — Terry Goodkind

The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer. — Brigham Young

Imagination cannot be coerced, it has a mind of its own. — Marty Rubin

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool. — Sallie Tisdale

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget. — Henry F. Ashurst

Princess, there's no one I'd rather hang out with more than you. You know that. — Jillian Dodd

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on. — George Orwell

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true — Honore De Balzac

More law, less justice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems. — Sidney Blumenthal

As the Power grows, its proved friends will also grow; and the Wise, such as you and I, may with patience come at last to direct its courses, to control it. We can bide our time, we can keep our thoughts in our hearts, deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order; all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. There — J.R.R. Tolkien

Let the violin become a fiddle, boy. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney