Blessed Quotes: Divine Inspiration and Uplifting Words

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"

George Eliot, Author

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Chris proposed exactly the way I've always dreamed. Our families were close by, but it was just us out on a beautiful deck overlooking a lake in East Tennessee. We had just been on a hike and - in our workout clothes - he hit the knee! We feel so blessed by God that He sent us each other, and we are looking so forward to forever together"

Hillary Scott, Musician

"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone"

Dar Williams, Musician

"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive"

Carolyn Wells, Author

"A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart"

Tom Brady, Athlete

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!"

Victor Hugo, Author

"That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another"

George Eliot, Author

"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived"

Steven Adler, Musician

"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation"

Steven Adler, Musician

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt"

Herbert Hoover, President

"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success"

Barack Obama, President

"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"You're blessed if you have the strength to work"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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