Thursday's Ten ~ Favorite Quotes

Taking a break from highlighting my friends who create and design today.  I want to participate in Lora's Thursday's Ten!

If you'd like to play along, simply jump on over to her site for details and link in!

So, today's Thursday's Ten is ten of your favorite quotes.  Here goes. . . .

1.  "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.  They must be felt with the heart." ~ Helen Keller

I've always liked this quote, and just yesterday my best friend gave me a gift for baby Slocum ~ Thanks again, Jodi! ~ and the sweet card she gave me had this quote on the front.  Extremely fitting for this time in the pregnancy when I certainly can't feel this butterbean at all yet, but it's still the most beautiful, amazing miracle I've ever been a part of!

2.  "The Lord your God is with you.  He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you.  He will quiet you with his love.  He will rejoice over you with singing."  ~ Zephaniah 3:17

I've had this verse printed and sitting on my desk for months and months now.  I've prayed that Ellie Grace and our child will know always the Lord is with them, that they'll know His saving grace and power, and that He rejoices over them!  How awesome is that?!?!?

3.  "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle

This is a quote I use sometimes as the tagline of my work email signature.  As the trainer in the bank, I think it's important that we remember to do the right thing.  Repeatedly.

4.  When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'". ~ Erma Bombeck

Just so true.

5.  "This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Again, this is one of my taglines on my email signature at work.  It's just so fitting to me for this time in the economy when we as banks in general are facing obstacles and challenges we have never seen before.

6.  "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." ~ Hebrews 11:1

7.  "He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand." ~ Psalm 40:2

8.  "Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire."  ~ W.B. Yeats

Another work quote I really like!

9.  "Never never never give up."  ~ Winston Churchill

10.  "And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Colossians 3:17


So there you have it!  Ten of my favorite quotes!  What's one of your favorite quotes?