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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“it’s easy to make a buck. It’s tougher to make a difference.” Tom Brokow
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.” – Ted Hughes
At cool of day, with God I walk
My garden’s grateful shade;
I hear His voice among the trees
And I am not afraid.
Anonymous
Love me when I least deserve it; that is when I need it most.
–Swedish proverb
Mother Marie J. Geissinger–Who doesn’t listen-has to feel.
“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.” – Gene Stratton-Porter
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
…Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa
“Real girls aren’t perfect. Perfect girls aren’t real.”
~Unknown
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author Unknown
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.”
~Unknown
“I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”
-Gilda Radner
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
~Unknown
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
~Dr. Seuss
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
~Unknown
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart . . . pursue those.”
~Unknown
“There’s only one God, ma’am.”
~Captain America!
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
~Yves Saint Laurent
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Have you prayed about it as much as you’ve talked about it?”
~Unknown
“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.”
Rosalind Russell
“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.”
Charles Dickens
WOOHOO!!! A whole treasury of new quotes!!!!!!
“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.” – Thomas Moore
“Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.” – Andrew Weil
“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” – Ernest Hemingway
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
We must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.”
~ Author Unknown
Yes! It’s the wisdom part that’s hard to come by. Thanks.
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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.” – Anon.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – George Herman “Babe” Ruth
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill
(From Knitt Witt https://www.facebook.com/?sk=welcome#!/KnittWitt)
“You can’t repent too soon because you don’t know how soon it will be too late.” ElRay L. Christiansen
“You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.” Aaron Tippin
“You have enemies? Good. That means that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life .” Winston Churchill
(From Knitt Witt https://www.facebook.com/?sk=welcome#!/KnittWitt)
“What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?” George Eliot
“Southern girls don’t sweat-we just glisten!” Unknown
““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore! Dream! Discover!” – Mark Twain
“WHO TAKES THE CHILD BY THE HAND TAKES THE MOTHER BY THE HEART” DANISH PROVERB.
What the heart gives away is never gone… It is kept in the hearts of others.
“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” – John E. Southard
Life without JESUS is like having a pencil with no point.
“Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path & Leave A Trail” ☺
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
_William Ellery Channing
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
So true. When you are truly grateful for your blessings, you want to share them with others so that they may feel the joy that comes from lving a life filled with gratitude.
“If you have nothing else to offer me, offer me your smile.” – Chinese proverb
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.” Charles Dickens
If I had a flower for every time you made me smile and laugh, I’d have a garden to walk in forever.
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” ~ Marilyn vos Savant
“Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly of you no one would believe it!” ~ Anonymous
Enjoy the little things in life…for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
“In life there is no time for being hurt. There should be no time to be
petty. A wise person will focus on principles of optimism and hope.”
~~~Marvin J. Ashton
Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
“I’ve learned that sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.”
Andy Rooney
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher
“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God, it will make in the end no difference what you have chosen instead.” William Law, English Clergyman of the 18th Century
“What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.” – David O. McKay
If you don’t believe in miracles, perhaps you’ve forgotten that you are one.