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Inspirational quotes for December 2009

Sanderson

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

(Walt Disney)

Those who wish to sing along find a song.

(Swedish proverb)

View life as a continuous learning experience.

(DenisWaitley)

Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

(Albert Camus)

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

(Unknown source)

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

(John F. Kennedy)

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

(Lionel Hampton)

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.

(Sir William Osler)

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

(Arthur Schopenhauer)

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

(Abraham Lincoln)

There are two types of people – those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.”

(Frederick L. Collins)

When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changes. The future is yet in your power.

(Hugh White)

It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possible in only one way.

(Aristotle)

The man who doesn’t read good books has an advantage over the man who can’t read them.

(Mark Twain)

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your piece of mine.

(Christian Larson)

Persistence is to the character of mind as carbon is to steel.

(Napoleon Hill)

Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions, forms our true honor.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

(Robert F. Kennedy)

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

(Josh Billings)

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on the bathroom scale.

(Arthur C. Clarke)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

(Isaac Asimov)

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do… but she’s certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

(Ken Dooley)

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

(Scott Adams)

We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside of us to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: We must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others – not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it feels really good!

(Shakti Gawain)

Our character is what we do when we think no one else is looking.

(H. Jackson Brown)

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

(George Eliot)

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.

(Humphrey Davy)

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

(Mother Teresa)

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

(Harold Kusher)

Son, always tell the truth. Then you’ll never have to remember what you said the last time.

(Sam Rayburn)

I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

(Galileo Galilei)

The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book – and it makes a poor doorstop.

(Alfred Hitchcock)

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

(James Russell Lowell)

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

(Benjamin Disraeli)

Put more trust in nobility of character than in oath.

(Solon)

I find the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

(Thomas Jefferson)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

(A. J.Liebling)

Few things are harder than to put up with a good example.

(Mark Twain)

When you are feeling good, you must be thinking good thoughts. So you are on track and you are emitting a powerful frequency that is attracting back to you more good things that will make you feel good. Seize these moments when you are feeling good, and milk them. Be aware that as you are feeling good, you are attracting more good things to you.

(Rhonda Byme)

Listen to the mustn’ts, child

Listen to the don’ts

Listen to the shouldn’ts

The impossibles, the won’ts

Listen to the never haves,

Then listen close to me –

Anything can happen, child,

Anything can be.

(Shel Silversten)

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