INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES SEPTEMBER 2012

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Stumbling is not a bad thing. It means you were on the move instead of sitting down doing nothing. (George Pataki)

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them become better. But don’t be disappointed when they are not; it helps them keep trying. (Mari Brown)

Some people get lost in thought because it’s such familiar territory. (G. Behn)

Have some sense about work. No one ever dies muttering, “I wish I had spent more time at the office.” (Ann Richards)

Success is not something we achieve once and get to keep, but something we have to re-earn in our own way every day. (Dennis Fakes)

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolidge)

Lost time is never found again. (Benjamin Franklin

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned to learn and change. (Carl Rogers)

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Will Rogers)

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying that they made them. (John Hays)

The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever. (Bud Meyer)

Children are the only future of any people. (Frances Cress Welsing)

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. (Chinese proverb)

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor. (Seneca)

Sensitivity is closely aligned to egotism. Indeed, excessive sensitiveness is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for it is to make more of our objects and less of ourselves. (Christian Bovee)

One cannot walk into an April day in a negative way. (Malcolm Forbes)

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. (B. C. Forbes)

Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you. (Maori proverb)

I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things. (Lech Walesa)

The most important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. (John Lubbock)

I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence. (Publius Syrus)

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are often no longer strong. (Winston Churchill)

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in. (Harry S Truman)

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. (Benjamin Disraeli)

In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished. (Pico Iver)

How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. (Lascelles Abercrombie)

A good teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. (Thomas Carruthers)

April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded what we are on the other 364. (Mark Twain)

Charm is the way of getting the answer “yes” without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. (Unknown source)

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the “dahling” thing got started? (Eva Gabor)

If he can remember so many jokes

With all the details that mold them,

Why can’t he recall, with equal skill,

All the times he told them! (Ken Dooley)

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. (John Holcomb)

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those between people who live the same books. (Irving Stone)

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. (Angela Schwindt)

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin)

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time with a tremendous whack. (Winston Churchill)

If you wouldn’t write it or sign it, don’t say it. (Earl Wilson)

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese proverb)

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be. (Morris Adler)

When you are through learning, you’re through. (Vernon Law)

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. (Dutch proverb)

The sorrow of knowing that there is evil in the best is for out-balanced by the job of discovering that there is good in the worst. (Austin Riggs)

When I grow up, I want to be a little girl. (Diane Hodges)

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. (Joseph Joubert)

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. (Arthur Helps)

I’ve put on a lot of weight. I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born. (Red Skelton)

America’s future walks through the doors of our schools every day. (Mary Jean Letendre)

The greatest things ever done on earth have been done little by little. (Thomas Guthrie)

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. (Seneca)

You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust the sails. (Christopher Poizat)

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. (Frank Tyger)

Great ideas need landing gears as well as wings. (C. D. Jackson)

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. (Unknown source)

It is not doing what you like, but liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. (James Barrie)

Most people know what they hate, few what they love. (Charles Colton)

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the most devastating future disappointments will be. (Fred Gosman)

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there. (Lewis Carroll)

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general. (Chinese proverb)

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave. (Dakota)

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no trail and leave a path. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do. (W. T. Grant)

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