Blessed Quotes

"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

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

Jonathan Swift, Writer

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

Ross Perot, Businessman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

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

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"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

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him"

John Burroughs, Author

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"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

"God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

"Death is the most blessed dream"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

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

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"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

"The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"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

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest"

Hesiod, Poet

"I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind"

Dizzy Dean, Athlete

"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

"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed"

Bennett Cerf, Journalist

"I feel really blessed because of where I come from"

Katy Perry, Musician

"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough"

Don Henley, Musician

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