Encouraging Words for the Blessing Bowl

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. —Walt Disney

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. —Robert Kennedy

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. —Maya Angelou

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Mahatma Gandhi

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —Winston Churchill

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. —Mother Teresa

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. —Albert Einstein

We do not sing because we are happy; we are happy because we sing. —William James

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. —M.K. Gandhi

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
—Alexander Graham Bell