My MIL sent these to me - I adored Pres. Regan when I was little.  I was in 4th grade when he was elected to office.  It upsets me when the media slanders him.  We have books on his polices and those things that he did - I think he was the last of the greats...  until we wake up and elect another patroit anyway.  Here they are, Ronald Regan quotes:

 'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:  We win, they loose.'


'The most terrifying words in the English language are:  I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'



'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're! ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'


'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'



'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'


'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.'



'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.'

'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'


'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'


'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.'


'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.'


'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'



'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'

Quotes on debt:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."  ~Hamlet

"He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man."  ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This is beautiful.  I need to do this - I have inspiring thoughts all the time that are lost b/c I am in the middle of something....


"I have a little book that I carry with me, where I record the inspiration and thoughts that I receive from the Spirit. . . . As thoughts come to my mind, I write them down and then I try to do them.   I have found that many times, as I have done something on my list, my action was the answer to someone's prayer. There have also been those times that I didn't do something on my list, and I have found out later that there was someone I could have helped, but I didn't. When we receive promptings regarding God's children, if we write down the thoughts and inspiration we receive and then obey it, God's confidence in us increases and we are given more opportunities to be instruments in His hands."

Don R. Clarke, Ensign, November 2006, p. 99

In a gift shop up in Jackson they had several indian quotes with pictures - this is one that spoke to me:

"All people and all things of the Universe are joined to you who smoke the pipe

When you pray with this pipe you pray for and with everything."   ~ LaKota Teaching

I may not smoke a peace pipe, but the idea of prayers being interconnected gives me goose bumps, as it is my wish always for my prayers to do the greatest good.  Just thought I'd share.  :)

From LDS Copywork today:

It takes resolution to be virtuous when those around you scoff at virtue.

It takes commitment to abstain from harmful substances when those around you scoff at sobriety and at being free from drugs.

It takes courage to be a man or woman of integrity when those around you forsake gospel principles for expediency or convenience.

It takes love in our hearts to speak in peaceful testimony of the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ to those who would mock Him and belittle and demean Him.

There will be times that demand courage for each of us because disciples of the Lord are to live with their consciences. Disciples of the Lord are to live with their principles. Disciples of the Lord
are to live with their convictions. Each of us is to live with his or her testimony. Unless we do, we will be miserable and dreadfully alone.

~  Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Sep 2001, 2

"It's the job never started that takes the longest to finish."  ~J.R.R. Tolkien

This one needs to sit on my forehead.  I suffer from indecision - as a BLUE personality, I tend to NOT make decisions because then I have to choose.  I feel like if I do one thing I can't have the other - and what if the other was better?  BAH!  I think it needs to be on my children's foreheads as well - for washing dishes!  :)  I think I'll have one of those signs with the quotes written on them made up (you see them everywhere here) to hang in a prominent spot in our home. 

I read quite a few other J.R.R. Tolkien quotes - he was a funny guy!  I like these very much too:

"A pen to me is as a beak to a hen."

I really related to that!  LOL! 

last one:

""I am told I talk shorthand and then smudge it."

Hope you enjoyed these!  :)

I just posted some quotes about failure.  Now I want to post some about abundance.  I have been teaching myself to move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking...  I have over 4 generations of scarcity to overcome.  Some of my family doesn't believe in that stuff.  I don't understand it - all they have to do is look around.  Anyway, this is not about that.  Here's some abundance quotes for you to enjoy - my favorite is Charles Dickens:

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

 ~Wayne Dyer

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

 ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.

 ~Deepak Chopra

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

 ~Albert Einstein

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

 ~John Petit-Senn

Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

 ~Charles Dickens

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

~Cicero

It doesn't matter what you're doing, we all meet with "failure" from time to time.  I know many homeschool moms that feel like failures - there are times I feel that way too.  It doesn't just have to do with business!  Have you seen Meet The Robinsons?  I absolutely LOVE that movie - the whole concept of applauding a failure is fabulous!  What if we all viewed failures as stepping stones, not brick walls?  What we could accomplish then!  The only true failure in life is giving up, to settle for.  At least, in my humble opinion.  Here's some great quotes:

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
~ C. S. Lewis

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

~Napoleon Hill

Failure doesn't mean that you're a failure... it just means that you haven't succeeded yet.

~Robert Schuler

last one:

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome.

~Zig Ziglar