Jamon Mayes > Jamon's Quotes

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?”
― Benjamin Franklin

“It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.”
― Tyler Perry

“You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.”
― Tyler Perry

“People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.”
― Tyler Perry

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
― Joyce Meyer

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”
― T.D. Jakes

“Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.”
― Mark Driscoll

“If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.”
― Meg Moseley, When Sparrows Fall

“I have rightfully no other business each day but to do God's work as a servant, constantly regarding His pleasure. May I have grace to live above every human motive, simply with God and to God.”
― Henry Martyn

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“If you want your life to be a reflection of Christ, you need to take time to reflect on Christ.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Proverbs: Words of Wisdom from the Simple Life

“Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
― Robert Frost

“ You Chose

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

You chose to give away your love.
You chose to have a broken heart.
You chose to give up.
You chose to hang on.

You chose to react.
You chose to feel insecure.
You chose to feel anger.
You chose to fight back.
You chose to have hope.

You chose to be naïve.
You chose to ignore your intuition.
You chose to ignore advice.
You chose to look the other way.
You chose to not listen.
You chose to be stuck in the past.

You chose your perspective.
You chose to blame.
You chose to be right.
You chose your pride.
You chose your games.
You chose your ego.
You chose your paranoia.
You chose to compete.
You chose your enemies.
You chose your consequences.

You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.

However, you are not alone. Generations of women in your family have chosen. Women around the world have chosen. We all have chosen at one time in our lives. We stand behind you now screaming:

Choose to let go.
Choose dignity.
Choose to forgive yourself.
Choose to forgive others.
Choose to see your value.
Choose to show the world you’re not a victim.
Choose to make us proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
― Steven Brust, Jhereg

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis C.K.

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
― francis chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“‎"Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“Are we in love with God or just His stuff?”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
― John Piper

“If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.”
― John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting And Prayer