INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES February 2011

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Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding. (David Moore)

One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese proverb)

Nine-tenths of the serious controversies in life result from misunderstanding. (Louis Brandeis)

There is a time to say nothing, and a time to say something, but there is not time to say everything. (Hugo of Fleury)

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. (Gen. Omar Bradley)

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. (A. C. Benson)

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. (William Hudson)

We must touch his weakness with a delicate hand. There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the fault without eradicating the virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith)

We make our decisions, then our decisions turn around and make us. (F. W. Boreham)

The personality and the ego scream, while the soul whispers. (Unknown source)

The purpose of life is to be happy and make other people happy. (Dali Lama)

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can’t. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. (Kathleen Norris)

The value of life isn’t in duration but donation. (Unknown source)

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. (William Hazlitt)

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. (Bruce Barton)

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not being very innovative in what you are doing (Hugh Allen).

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. (Thomas Paine).

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. (Arnold Toynbee)

A half-truth is a whole lie. (Yiddish proverb)

Where is the life we’ve lost in the living? (T. S. Eliot)

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is malleable is always superior to what is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. (Source unknown)

Evil doesn’t have a zip code. (James Lee Burke)

Courage is often lack of insight, while cowardice is based on good information. (Peter Ustinov)

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. (Ben Franklin)

Always borrow money from a pessimist. They don’t expect to get it back. (Ken Dooley)

Not to decide is to decide. (Harvey Cox).

If you are unhappy in your career choice after giving it a fair shake, quit. Leave it and look for an opportunity that will make you happy. No matter how well a job pays, if it is drudgery, it isn’t worth it. (Ed Koch)

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. (Oscar Levant)

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold our tongue. (Alice Miller)

Believe in something larger than yourself. Get involved in some of the big ideas of our time. (Barbara Bush)

Money is always there but the pockets change. (Gertrude Stein)

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. (Helen Gurley Brown)

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky)

It is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” (Graham Green)

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world. (Susan Cooper)

Always listen to experts. They tell you want can’t be done and why. Then do it. (Robert Heinlein)

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. (Sam Walton)

Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning. (Gen. George S. Patton)

Remember always that all of us, you and I especially, are descended from immigrants. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Ours is an age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of people who try to. (Mumford Jones)

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight. (Josh Billings)

An executive is one who never puts off until tomorrow what he can get someone else to do today. (Unknown source)

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power than can move the world. (Gandhi)

He who neglects to drink in the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. (Ling Po)

A person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned sixty or seventy times as much as a person who hasn’t. (Mark Twain)

May we kiss those we please, and please those we kiss. (Unknown source)

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. (Thomas Jefferson)

Work is the greatest thing in the world - so we should always save some for tomorrow. (Don Herold)

There is a foolish corner in the brains of the wisest people. (Aristotle)

The cause is just, rather than the price is right. (Robert Parker)

The one who lacks courage to start has already finished. (Louise Moore)

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. (Gandhi)

Slower minds keep right. (Bumper sticker)

Three things can’t be hidden - the sun, the moon and the truth. (Buddha)

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. (Alice Walker)

I’m for the separation of church and hate. (Unknown source)

If ignorance is bliss, then why aren’t more people happy? (Unknown source)

How much does it cost if it’s free? (Unknown source)

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne)

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. (Mark Twain)

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road after you have shown him the way. (Confucius)

You can cure rarely, heal often and comfort always. (David Moore)

The best fight is the one you don’t have. (Lee Child)

Drunks sober up. Fools remain fools. (Ken Alstad)

Boredom is a matter of choice, not circumstance. (Unknown source)

If you’re beginning to think you’re a person of influence try ordering someone else’s dog around. (Unknown source)

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. (Francis Bacon)

Sometimes it falls to a generation to be great. We can be that generation. (Nelson Mandela)

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (Leonardo Da Vinci)

It’s a slippery slope when you start using people as a means to an end. (Robert Parker)

We’ll extend a hand if you’re willing to unclench your fist. (Unknown source)

He couldn’t read or write, but he was nevertheless one of the most insightful people I’ve every known. (James Lee Burke)

A wise man doesn’t burn his bridges until he knows he can part the waters. (Ashanti saying)

As usual you need connecting flights to get to the point. (From Cheers)

You can never get enough of what you really didn’t need. (Unknown source)

A good horse is never a bad color. (Ken Alstad)

Whenever you fish for love, bait with your heart, not with your brain. (Mark Twain)

The nice thing about a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing someone else always does. (Louise Moore)

She was one of those rare individuals who invested as much in her listening as she did in her talking. (Dennis Lehane)

Your hand is never the worse for doing its own work. (Welsh proverb)

It isn’t the whistle that pulls the train. (Vermont proverb)

40 is old age of youth; 50 the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo)

When two egoists meet it’s an I for an I. (Unknown source)

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. (W. A. Ward)

Some men wouldn’t know a cactus if they sat on one. (Ken Alstad)

If I change I disappear because there isn’t anything but what I am. (Robert Parker)

The greatest things in life aren’t things (Unknown source)

Shallow rivers and shallow minds freeze first. (Ken Alstad)

I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. (Oprah Winfrey)

The end of all education should surely be service to others. (Cesar Chavez)

10,000 fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. (Martin Luther King)

Don’t set sail on someone else’s star. (African proverb)

Joy is not in things. It is in us. (Unknown source)

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become and the same is true of fame. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled by rarely ridden. (Mexican proverb)

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you. (Sharon Stone)

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. (Italian proverb)

Once you’ve failed, analyze the problem and find out why, because each failure is one more step leading up to the cathedral of success. The only time you don’t wait to fail is the last time you try. (Charles Kettering)

You can’t do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (George Carlin)

Too little temptation kin lead to virtue. (Ken Alstad)

Don’t confuse information with understanding. (Neil Postman)

A watched clock never tells the time. (Welsh proverb)

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend that you hate. (Nikka, age 6)

The shopkeeper was dismayed when a brand-new business, just like his, opened up in the storefront to the left of him and erected a huge sign that read BEST DEALS. He was thunderstruck when another competitive enterprise opened on his right and announced its arrival with an even larger sign reading LOWEST PRICES. The shopkeeper was panicked until he got an idea. He put the biggest sign of all over his own shop - it read MAIN ENTRANCE. (Ken Dooley)

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