Quick Quotes

Quote that help me make it through the day

"Come in, sit down, relax, converse. Our house doesn't always look like this-- sometimes it's even worse!"

"Homemaking: The art of removing all evidence that anyone lives in your house."

"Motherhood will never be an Olympic event: they don't feature extreme sports."
Wendy Kay Donnahoo

"I do not know what lies ahead of you young men, but my advice would be to fasten your seal belts and hold on firmly to your principles!"
Elder Neal A. Maxwell

"You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time."
Dave Ramsey

"I realized one day I could go crazy trying to do everything perfectly and in order, or I could just relax and be crazy and let life happen. I realized that all the things I worried would happen to my kids never did. And some things I neglected to worry about did happen. But my worrying, in either case, did absolutely no good."
Becky Freeman "Peanut Butter Kisses and Mud Pie Hugs"

"God tends to pour blessing on people going in a direction He wants them to go."
Dave Ramsey

"Our children are like jewels, to be polished by us and presented to the Lord."

"The difference between a successful person and other is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi

"We don't have to do great things. We just have to hang on and do right things that become great."
Ardeth Greene Kapp

"God tends to pour blessing on people going in a direction He wants them to go."
Dave Ramsey

"One of the ablest women in this country, now the wife of a university president, was brought up in poverty. She recalls an occasion when, as a girl, she complained of her hardships to her mother. 'See here," said the mother. 'I have given you life. That is probably all I will ever be able to give you. Now you stop complaining and do something with it.'

Each of us has some things we could complain about, but what good would it do? Complaining seldom changes anything."
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"They can take everything, but the only way you lose your hope is you have
to surrender it."
A wise mother

"In the soft and gentle arms of a mother's love, children can come to know
the voice of the Lord."
Dwan J. Young

"One thing I've come to realize about my less than perfect housekeeping is that a little love an laughter and flexibility in a home will cover a multitude of dirty dishes and frozen pizzas."
From Becky Freeman's "Peanut Butter Kisses & Mud Pie Hugs"

"When I was a young man, I served as counselor to a wise district president in the Church. He tried to teach me. One of the things I remember wondering about was this advice he gave; 'When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time."
Elder Henry B. Eyring

"The good thing about principles is that they make life easy."
Dave Ramsey

"Problems give us the ability to hang on and that ability changes who we are. When our character is permanently molded by the trials we are stronger and the end result is hope."
Dave Ramsey

"The most important decision in achieving a goal is not what you are willing to do to achieve it, but what you are willing to give up to achieve it."
Earl Nightingale

"When a mother provides an example of joy, the children's world is one of happiness."
Barbara B. Smith

"Mother, you ought to cultivate in your hearts the spirit of peace; you ought to be like angels of God, full of every virtue."
John Taylor

"The family is eternal. Love must be nurtured. It must be spoken. We must put away our pride, our haughtiness, our shyness, our misunderstandings, and with humility say, "I love you. Is there something I can do to help you?" You can never be completely happy under any other circumstances."
Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Do not correct children in anger. An angry parent is not as well prepared to judge the amount of punishment which should be inflicted up on a child, as one who is more cool and exercised with reflection, reason and judgment."
Orson Pratt

"Motherhood is just another name for sacrifice....No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love"
David O. McKay

"Worry and fear are everywhere. Worry and fear are another sign that contentment is not in the house. Worry and fear paralyze us and have reached truly epidemic levels in our culture. Worry and fear cannot exist it the same house as contentment does."
Dave Ramsey

Let us observe a moment of silence in memory of Mom's sanity...

“We want to be [at our children’s sporting events] to cheer, should our child score a point; and we want to be ready should they need our medical insurance card and a ride to the emergency room.”Becky Freeman “Peanut Butter Kisses and Mud Pie Hugs”

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen, there will be something solid for us to stand on or God will teach us how to fly."
Patrick Overton

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accidents"
Mark Twain

"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."- Epicurus (341 - 270 BC) Greek philosopher

"The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing
nothing. And that is a very big mistake."
John Wooden

"People who don't see the sunrise miss half their life."
Clara Josephine Tuttle Haight, Elder Haight's mother

"I like the idea of having quiet time. Unfortunately, sometimes it feels like I have to pass through a war zone to get there."

"Children's questions can be so wise and ..we can encourage children to ask them."

"Having vision does not mean that all of a sudden your life will become
easy, but ..it will guide you toward your dream."
Dave Ramsey

"If we wish away the moments, they will be gone. The things we have wanted to leave-the mess, the noise, the obligations-will be gone, but so will the children! This is true of every moment of life. If we do not see its joys, if we do not make the most of it, it will pass-and so will its opportunities."
Jaroldeen Edwards

"The art of rearing children peacefully and pleasantly is the art of
becoming a child again, of growing up with them."
Emma Ray McKay

"Nothing a woman can ever do will have anywhere near as much importance as
the influence she has as a mother."
George D. Durrant

“Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results. It produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last.”
Hamilton Holt