INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MARCH 2013

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. (Mae West)

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Unknown source)

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. (Marc Halprin)

Expert advice is a great comfort, even when it’s wrong. (Ellen Currie)

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit – and man is his own gardener. (James Allen)

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. (Groucho Marx)

Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you’d expect. (Robert Half)

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness and laryngitis. (William Ward)

There ain’t a hoss that cain’t be rode.

There ain’t a man that cain’t be throwed. (Ken Alstad)

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. (William Hazlit)

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk. (Peggy Noonan)

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Adlai Stevenson)

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. (Dalai Lama)

It’s the little bit of sunshine

Lighting up the dullest day,

That brings a glow of pleasure

As we journey on life’s way.

It’s the simple things that please us

Like a willing kindness done,

That soon blows away each storm-cloud

‘Till once more we see the sun. (John McLeod)

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. (James Dewar)

The bigger the mouth, the better it looks shut. (Ken Alstad)

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser)

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (Oscar Wilde)

A wise man makes more opportunities than he finds. (Sir Francis Bacon)

A true friend stabs you in the front. (Oscar Wilde)

Every jackass thinks he’s got horse sense. (Ken Alstad)

The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train. (Unknown source)

Do a deed of simple kindness

Though its end you may not see,

It may reach, like widening ripples,

Down a long eternity. (Joseph Norris)

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. (Pogo)

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters)

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. (Tom Peters)

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes)

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been. (Unknown source)

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer. (Unknown source)

There are only two ways to live your live. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)

What we think, we become.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world. (Buddha)

Never straddle a fence. Build one or tear it down. (Ken Alstad)

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. (Unknown source)

I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (Thomas Edison)

Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you. (Margaret Bourke-White)

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick. (Lawrence Shames)

If you cry because the sun has gone out of our life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore)

The invention of television can be compared to the introduction of indoor plumbing. Fundamentally it brought no change in the public’s habits. It simply eliminated the necessity of leaving the house. (Alfred Hitchcock)

A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future. (Robert Heinlein)

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. (Budd Schulberg)

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies and that is fighting without them. (Winston Churchill)

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. (English proverb)

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool. (L. M. Boyd).

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. (Herb Caen)

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. (American proverb)

I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary. (Yogi Berra)

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wiser and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and false. (Robert Cecil)

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. (Joseph Joubert)

To tell whether an action is right or wrong, ask what would happen if everyone did it. (Anna Quindlen)

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness. (William Cullen Bryant)

The people who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven’t time. (Melvin Evans)

Unless you know where you’re going, any road will take you there. (Vincent Ferrai)

Sometimes you earn more by doing jobs that pay nothing. (Todd Ruthman)

Malice sucks up the greater part of its own venom, and poisons itself with it. (Unknown source)

When a person is down, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. (Edward Lytton)

A long dispute means both parties are wrong. (Jared Dolan)

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop. (Robertson Davies)

Traditional thinkers say, “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.” But breakthrough thinkers say, “Fix it before it breaks.” (Gerald Nadler)

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. (Dr. Suess)

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass … It’s about learning to dance in the rain. (Unknown source)

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