Versey Quotes

#1. Life is about choices. Choose your influences carefully. Be selective of everything you see, hear, read, and say. The very things we constantly surround ourselves with... we become. Reevaluate your influences your very life depends on it." ~Jason Versey

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#2. Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. "Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:18). ~Jason Versey

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#3. Worry is the enemy of optimism and personal progress. ~Jason Versey

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#4. Christianity, true Christianity, is experienced when we crucify the anger, pride, vanity and lust that dwells within ourselves and consciously replace it with the sacrificial love, humility, modesty and chasteness of the One who so many profess to believe in and follow. -Jason Neville Versey

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#5. It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.

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#6. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

James Burrows

#7. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.

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#8. A life of fulfillment is essentially unattainable less we quest to empty ourselves first.

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#9. The man that wars with others is lost. The man that wars with himself is found.

Jason Versey

#10. The man that wars and judges others is eternally lost. The man that wars and judges himself is eternally found.

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#11. That is the beauty of reading a meaningful quote. Just as it is with the spirit of our hearts, sometimes we must feed the doves in order to hear them sing.

Jason Versey

#12. In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine.

Leonard Mlodinow

#13. A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.

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#14. It was clear then, so painfully clear, that people fell in love to find something in themselves that they'd had all along.

Catherine Lacey

#15. Within the beautiful struggle of a cocoon all butterflies are made.

Jason Versey

#16. Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.

John Henry Newman

#17. In our moments in the sun beware of casting dark shadows.

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#18. Recognize your failures when they happen but don't dwell on them. Instead, focus on the successes you have had in your life. If you've done it once, you can do it again. Build on that. Letting thoughts of past failures creep into your mindset are nothing but dream killing distractions.

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#19. Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it a foothold in your life and you'll chase away every dream, dreamt and every friend, befriended.

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#20. Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third...Humanity.

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#21. My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Ruby Dee

#22. Our truest reflection reveals that we are what we think, we are what we say and we are what we continuously do.

Jason Versey

#23. When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

Kate Fleetwood

#24. Belief creates conviction, conviction creates persistence, persistence creates perseverance and perseverance creates unlimited opportunities for greatness.

Jason Versey

#25. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#26. Beloved,if you refuse to go within...you will, sadly, go without.

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#27. The character of those who continually persevere and sacrifice are eventually completely reborn and when they rise from the darkness they've endured no stone can hold them down." -Rise...Roll Away The Stone

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#28. Our purpose is often found in our pain.

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#29. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

Jerry Spinelli

#30. A dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart.

Jason Versey

#31. It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.

Jason Versey

#32. flirt. Why the hell not? I'm single. You're single. Let's mingle. Just because I'm not going to fall in love doesn't mean I can't have some fun.

Jillian Dodd

#33. The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

Jason Versey