INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES January 2014

Sanderson

THIS ISN'T A QUOTE BUT YOU MIGHT FIND IT A BIT FASCINATING TO START OFF THE NEW YEAR: Could you talk logically and sensibly for one minute using at least 60 different words without using the letter A? (A way to do it appears at the end of the quotes.)

One of the reasons life works at all is because everyone in your tribe isn’t nuts on the same day. (Anne Lamott)

Imagination is more importance then intelligence. (Einstein)

Nobody gets into heaven without a letter from the poor. (Anne Lamott)

As we say in the sewer, if you’re not prepared to go all the way, don’t put on your boots in the first place.

(Ed Norton… on the Honeymooners)

It's hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but it is harder to give up when you know it's everything you want. (Unknown source)

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. (Denis Waitley)

Fortune favors the brave. (Publius Terence)

We are still masters of our fate.

We are still captains of our souls. (Winston Churchill)

If you devote your life to revenge first dig two graves. (Confucius)

Good things happen to those who wait. Greater things come to those who get off their butts and do what it takes to make it happen. (Unknown source)

Faith isn’t about how we feel; it’s about how we act. (Anne Lamont)

You are what you repeatedly do. (Aristotle)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)

Save that hate mail so you can show the kids what ignorance and appalling sentence structure look like.

(Unknown source)

Do not wait to strike 'till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. (William B. Sprague)

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. (Samuel Johnson)

Laughter is so much cheaper than therapy. (Unknown source)

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

(Unknown source)

An oak is not felled at one blow. (Spanish proverb)

In doubtful matters boldness is everything. (Publilius Syrus)

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else will. (Les Brown)

I don't regret the things I've done. I regret the things I didn't do when I had the chance. (Unknown source)

Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Joseph J. Marine)

The rooster may crow but the hen delivers the goods. (Unknown source)

Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that then you don’t know where the finish line is.

(Gary Shandling)

The way she listened was more eloquent than speech. (Source unknown)

Better make it four. I don’t think I can eat eight. (Yogi Berra, on cutting up a pizza)

Never place a period where God has placed a comma. (Gracie Allen)

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. (Unknown source)

An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it. (Don Marquis)

Some people reach the top of the ladder only to discover that it’s leaning against the wrong wall.

(Unknown source)

A lot of people go through life running from something that isn’t after them.

(Unknown source)

There is enough for the needy but not the greedy. (Ghandi)

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty. (Jefferson Davis)

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. (Democritus)

People with many interests live not only longest, but happiest. (George Matthew Allen)

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg. (Loring Forcer)

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. (Jose Narosky)

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. (James Robinson)

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. (Walter Bagehot)

Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all. (Sam Ewing)

How large an income is thrift? (Unknown source)

A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other people assume there's fire. (Dan Bennett)

Excuses are the nail used to build a house of failure. (Don Wilder)

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. (Dale Carnegie)

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. (Alstair Cooke)

Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality. (Kevin Eikenberry)

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our very own. Past opportunities are gone, future opportunities have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting to them too long, we shall find that both are soured with age. (Charles Caleb Colton)

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. (Helen Keller)

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. (Seneca)

If the wind will not serve,

take to the oars.

(Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe) (Latin proverb)

You are happiest while you are making the greatest contribution. (Robert F. Kennedy)

Cats have it all - admiration and endless sleep and company only when they want it. (Rod McKuen)

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. (William Ward)

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. (Voltaire)

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana)

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. (Marianne Williamson)

No star is lost once we have seen,

We always may be what we might have been. (Adelaide Proctor)

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. (Samuel Smiles)

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your own mind. (Unknown source)

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. (Arthur C. Clarke)

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish proverb)

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. (Epictetus)

It may not be your fault for being down, but it's got to be your fault for not getting up. (Steve Davis)

Happiness depends upon ourselves. (Aristotle)

The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. (Aristotle Onassis)

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Could you talk logically and sensibly for one minute using at least 60 different words without

using the letter A?

A POSSIBLE WAY TO DO IT: Start with 1 and count to 100.

(Source: David and Louise Moore)

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