“Grace, like water flows to the lowest part.” – Philip Yancey
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“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
“Grace is the very opposite of merit… Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite.” – Harry Ironside
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” – Aristotle
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. -Victor Hugo
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. -Elie Wiesel
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason. -Pope Francis
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. -Denis Waitley
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. -William Hazlitt
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. -Anne Lamott
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. -Charles Caleb Colton
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. -Marlene Dietrich
“Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; ‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home.” – John Newton
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Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. -David A. Bednar
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson
For dreams to come true, it requires diligence. Believing is the most important thing! -Yunho
“The natural consequence of diligence and persistence is competence and success.” ― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty ‘n’ Worthy African Proverbs – Volume 1
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. -Benjamin Franklin
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. -Arnold Palmer
Diligence is not easy, but we can’t reach our goals without it. -Henry Cloud
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. -Abigail Adams
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. -Confucius
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. -John Carmack
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“Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy” -Maya Angelou
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Don’t flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. -Bryant H. McGill
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required. -Joseph B. Wirthlin
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. -Bryant H. McGill
Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with. -John Wanamaker
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. -Christian Nestell Bovee
Whatever happened to courtesy? What can be so urgent that you have to look down at your phone in the middle of a dinner conversation with people who matter to you? You can’t wait five minutes before staring at your phone? -Martin Cooper
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. -Saint Basil
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. -Jacques Maritain
I’ve met the Queen a couple of times, and she’s been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: ‘What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I’ll do that.’ She’s all about courtesy. -Jools Holland
Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet. -Anonymous
The grace of God is courtesy. -Hilaire Belloc
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