Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Give A Penny, Get A Penny
Most gas stations in the South have little change dishes by the register. If you’re paying for a transaction and need an extra penny or two, you simply take one from the dish. People then reciprocate this good turn by dropping a few coins in the dish from time to time, thereby creating a community bank of sorts, based on goodwill.
So in that spirit, this is Southern Plate’s “Give A Penny, Get A Penny” page.” I dearly love positive quotes and am always scouring the web for more so I thought this would be a great place to compile all of those. I’ll post mine, you post yours, and we can all “Give A Penny” when we have one and come back to “Get A Penny” when we need one.
I’ll also draw on these quotes to include at the bottom of my posts and emails that I send out to Southern Plate readers and be sure to credit the person who provided it, so include a link to your blog if you have one.
I would consider it a personal favor if you’d take the time to share a quote of motivation or positivity in the comments section below. Quote yourself, your Mama, someone famous, or our best friend “Anonymous”, it doesn’t matter, long as you drop your penny and then come back on one of those days when you feel like you might need one yourself.
Gratefully,
Christy
Some of my favorite quotes to start us off
“Pretend you’re a star and poke a hole in someone’s darkness”
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“Squeeze every bit of love you can out of life, and life will HUG you back like never before” ~Ticha from Facebook
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Grandma always told me: “Be sweet and play nice”
“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”
Life is not about the number of breaths you take; it is about the number of moments that take your breath away. – Unknown
That’s the one I was trying to think of that I love but can only ever remember the moments part. Thanks!
My main one is from my never-to-be-forgotten MaMaw Ella Mae Russell: “Good, Better, Best. Never rest til good is better and better is BEST!” Have a great day in Him y’all……Everyday!
Allan K. Chalmers:
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
One of my favorites…
Get out of the bitter barn and play in the hay!
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway – John Wayne
That’s right.
“Kindness matters”
“Speak tasteful words . . . you may have to eat them.”
“Where God guides, God provides.”
“There are no mistakes, only lessons. As long as you are alive, the lessons do not end.”
One can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
I have been known to say this MANY times,” Just because I did it, it doesn’t make it right. Use your own judgement because it’s your act that you are doing !”
The path of least resistance makes rivers and men crooked.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Life if tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.
Any excuse will do if you do not want to do it.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice make perfect.
Those who don’t read, have no advantage over those who can’t read.
Ok, maybe not a penny but definitely a favorite of mine.
Put on the big girl panties and deal with it.
Another….I believe from Thoreau
Everything is a nail when all you have is a hammer. (very paraphrased)
Love it!!!
I always liked the little quote
“The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you”
and also
“For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness”
Google tells me that is from Julian Germain.
“There is as much dignity in plowing a field as there is in writing poetry.” Booker T. Washington
you didn’t want the hose to water the garden…not after last summers crop!!!!
Such a great idea, Christy. After reading all this inspiration, I feel positively empowered! The only thing I could add would be my grandmother’s advice: “Sit up straight, keep your ankles crossed and never put grapes in your chicken salad.” Amen!
From my so very wise grandmother:
“Don’t borrow troubles, life is tough enough.” Dorotha Lou Grubb
“Life is too short to eat cheap chocolate or drink cheap beer.”
–Tina Jordan
You can see where my priorities are!
Life isn’t about how to survive the storm,But how to dance in the rain.
Here are some quotes I have grown up with:
Smile! Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
What goes around, comes around.
The early bird gets the worm.
Nothing is impossible with God.
I don’t know the authors of some of these but we have always said them growing up.
Cin
This quote keeps me on track and helps me make daily decisions:
“A chief cause of worry and unhappiness comes from trading what we want most in life, for what we want at the moment.”
My favorite…
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!”
If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort. –Dave Weinbaum
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. –Mark Twain
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
When Nothing is for Sure, Anything is Possible
Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present. Unknown
Another one that my Granny gave me when I was pregnant with my one and only child. “Baby, be sure you raise him so that everyone can and will love him, not just you.”
I try to keep that in mind when I want nothing more than to buy him the moon and the stars, I wonder, after I give this to him, will everyone else be able to love him or will he be too spoiled rotten??
A few of my favorites….
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.”
~Maya Angelou
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
~Martha Washington
Always do what you are afraid to do.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like this one…and I’ve had it on my myspace page for a while…trying to make a point to my teenagers…
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide
I love quotes and get most of mine from http://www.quotegarden.com
These quotes are great!!! What a great idea for a post Christy!
Right on, Kimberli!
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave..
Native American Proverb
“The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.” Unknown
If you can do something about it “Why Worry”?
If you can do nothing about it “What is the since in Worrying”?
“Life is not a spectator sport. . . . If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re escaping your life.”
– Jackie Robinson, 1964
“Set aside one half hour a day to do all your worrying, and then, during that period, take a nap.” —Author Unknown.
didn’t see either of these, hope I’m not repeating.
God always answers our prayers, sometimes the answer is no.
*personal fav* (I even have it printed on business cards and leave them around town)
Watch your thoughts, they become your words
watch your words, they become your actions
watch your actions, they become your habits
watch your habits, they become your character
watch your character, it becomes your destiny
a smile is more contagious than a frown
smile at your enemy’s, it keeps them on their toes
the laughter of a child is the best medicine
a baby is gods opinion that the world should go on
today is the first day of the rest of your life
a childs work is to learn, a child learns through their play
they give everything they have, and learn more everyday
a mother understands her children intuitively, because they grew beneath her heart (this is the *slogan* for the moms support group I run)
just a giggle for your Give a penny, Get a Penny …
May the light always find you on a dreary day.
When you need to be home may you find your way.
May you always have courage to take a chance.
And never find frogs in your underpants.
Have a great night & wonderful tomorrow !
The rewards for a good deed is to have done it.
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
Trust is the most valuable thing you’ll ever earn.
Nothing is constant but change.
You never really lose until you quit trying.
If you give Satan an inch, he’ll be a ruler.
In life and in love, there are no impossibilites.
My own personal motto:
If you cain’t dazzle them with brilliance
Baffle ‘em with bullsh*t!!
I really live on Baffle Lane and have a “Dazzle Court” sign at the end of my drive…teehee
I am trying to figure that motto into being the epitaph on my headstone…
Isn’t that what everybody, except me, does?
“Our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of gratitude to God, whatever the experience.” – Albert Schweitzer
“When we long for a life with no difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds, and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
AMEN. Especially to the first one.
“When you bury the hatchet, be sure not to leave the handle sticking out.” Anon
“Your attitude determines whether a ‘failure’ creates a learning opportunity, temporarily slows you down, or stops you altogether.”
Eric Allenbaugh
Pretty darned good.
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.” Jean-Luc Picard
“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain anwsers.” Martina Horner
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.” Author Unknown
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows but only empties today of it’s strength.” Charles Spurgeon
I found this on a single serving bag of sugar in a restaurant and it has echoed thru my head many times.
NEVER EXPLAIN – YOUR FRIENDS DON’T NEED IT AND YOUR ENEMIES WON’T BELIEVE YOU ANYWAY.
I remember seeing this one on the final tv show “Thirty Something” as a quote left up on the screen at the very end: “Life if full of possibilities, not probabilities”.
As a teenager I had a poster with a sea gull flying and the quote ” I can because I think I can” and that has carried with me.
A great aunt that had been through alot, even poisoning by her stepdaugter but had a gentle spirit and always looked up in life. She knew I was having a rough time adjusting to a new school and told me to always remember ” You have to be a friend to have a friend”.
An 8th grade teacher in class told us “If you never have the first drink you never will be an alcoholic” well I may not have followed those words but they were strong enough to stick with me to this day.
The last I can think to share that I received from my Mom the last few weeks before she died was for me to remember “that in life you just need to try to be happy.” If we all just lived by that life could be so much simpler than trying to live up to other people’s goal or ideas. Happiness is a choice.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
You go, “girl.” You go.
Today you are you, that is truer than true, there is no one alive who is youer than you! Dr. Suess
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land amoung the stars!
One useful thought:
When my children would say they were “bored”, I would tell them:
” Intelligent people are never bored.”
This gave them something to ponder (such as, “I bet she will find something
useful for me to do.”… Maybe some chore or work to be done.
thanks for all the wonderful quotes……
I’ve learned…. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person
My life’s motto:
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO! What a ride!”
God listens to more than your words, He listens to your heart.
Walk with God and He will walk with you. He loves you- you know.
If you sow seeds of wickedness, sin’s harvest you will reap. But
scattered seeds of righteousness, yield’s blessings you can keep.
AMEN.
Be changed and the world around you begins to change.
–Dr. Gerald Epstein