Quotation Saturday

WORK

I chose work because this week has been a full week of work. I’ve been refreshing my grammar skills while also maintaining a pristine household.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
~ Confucius

“Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
~ Albert Einstein

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

ENDURANCE

I chose endurance because this is what is needed to keep the cogs working to accomplish your goal.

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”
~ Orson F. Whitney

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.”
~ Stephen Fry

“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning”
~ Ludwig van Beethoven

“Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

PERSISTENCE

I chose persistence because this is definitely what is needed to endure.

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
~ Maya Angelou

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
~ Winston Churchill

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
~ Calvin Coolidge

“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
~ Tom Hiddleston

PRISTINE

I chose pristine because I love a pristine clean house. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and a clean house is next to heaven.

“Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?"
Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.”
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity!”
~ Israelmore Ayivor 

*Bravity I believe is Bravery or Brevity

“...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.”
~ Dean Koontz

“Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.”
~ Israelmore Ayivor

*author’s note