INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010

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Fame is delightful, but as collateral it does not rank high.

(Elbert Hubbard)

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

(Phil Silvers)

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, incredibly merciful.

(John Ruskin)

The things that come to those who wait are usually the things left by those who got there first.

(Ken Dooley)

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

(Gary Player)

Character is how you behave during the petty aggravations of everyday life.

(Unknown source)

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

(Hugo Monro)

Improvement of one’s economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.

(William Feather)

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind when they go.

(Frederick Faber)

Skating on thin ice is better than not skating on ice at all.

(John Shanahan)

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

(Unknown source)

A half truth is a whole lie.

(Yiddish proverb)

If poverty is the mother of crime, stupidity is the father.

(Spanish proverb)

Being president is like running a cemetery. You have a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.

(Bill Clinton)

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

(Jess Lair)

The only things we ever keep are what we give away.

(Louis Ginsberg)

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

(Norman Vincent Peale)

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

(John Steinbeck)

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

(Aesop)

Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright before you hear them speak.

(Tom Barry)

The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

(Robert Ingersoll)

In our daily lives we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

(Albert Clarke)

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

(Buddha)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow through you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you… while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

(John Muir)

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

(Helen Keller)

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

(John Masefield)

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay.

(Josh Billings)

No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.

(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Autumn carries more gold in its hand than all the other seasons.

(Jim Bishop)

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

(George Bernard Shaw)

If you’re seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to people when they go for a walk.

(Raymond Inman)

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

(Arnold Toynbee)

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

(Helen Hayes)

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent when two friends are arguing and you know both of them are wrong.

(Hugh Allen)

You can’t always go by expert opinion. A turkey, if you ask a turkey, should be stuffed with grasshoppers, grit and worms.

(Donald Thompson)

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

(Gilbert Chesterton)

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

(Hugo Monro)

Anyone kin look tall when surrounded by shorties

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

If you see a coward with a gun, it’s time go get scared or scarce.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

The hottest fire is made by the wood you chop yourself.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

When wise men are talkin’, let your ears hang down and listen.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

A drunken tongue tells what’s on a sober mind.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

You don’t need help fallin’down but a hand up is sure welcome.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

A cat has nine lives, but a lie can live forever.

(Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

 Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

(Helen Gurley Brown)

 It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person.  Always do what you are

afraid to do.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

 Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.

(H. Stein)

 The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

(Herbert Browne)

 Well it is known that ambition can creep as well a soar.

(Edmund Burke)

When it comes to staying young, a mind beats a face lift any day.

(Marty Burella)

 One does not make friends.  One recognizes them.

(Garth Henrichs)

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

(German proverb)

 

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

(Jack Manning)

 

Fools look to tomorrow; wise people use tonight.

(Source unknown)

  

Luck is always against the person who depends on it.

(Ken Dooley)

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.

(Michelangelo)

 

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.

(Jason Bell)

 

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.

Criticize me, and I may not like you.

Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

(William Arthur Ward)

 

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

(Sir Winston Churchill)

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

(Robertson Davies)

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

(James Liter)

The only thing that separates successful people from those who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.

(Helen Gurley Brown)

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