INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES OCTOBER 2011

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Heaven never helps the man who will not act. (Sophocles)

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. (Aristotle)

He who will not reflect is a ruined man. (Asian Proverb)

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. (H. G. Wells)

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese Proverb)

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. (Doug Firebaugh)

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. (Joseph Newton)

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,

Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. (Juvenal)

It’s amazing how much you can hear when no one is saying anything. (Elaine St. James)

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. (Abd-el-Kadar)

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. (Lord Chesterfield)

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. (Socrates)

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. (Daniele Vare)

An alibi is a reason for a bad reputation. (Unknown source)

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success. (Jack Manning)

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office. (Robert Frost)

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. (Unknown source)

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again. (George Miller)

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back, shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. (Robert Cushing)

The only journey is the journey within. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy, and with death as his greatest source of anxiety. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

Luck is always against the person who depends on it. (Unknown source)

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others. (Gordon Parks)

Getting an idea is like falling in love: Excitement is highest when you first meet. (Lisa Cool)

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by midnight. (Robertson Davies)

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. (German Proverb)

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so. (Ken Alstad)

Men soon the faults of others learn

A few their virtues, too, find out;

But is there one - I have a doubt -

Who can his own defects discern? (Swedish Proverb)

God ever works with those who work with will. (Aeschylus)

Clear your mind of can’t. (Solon)

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

You future depends on many things, but mostly on you. (Source unknown)

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but whatever you have committed to your mind is yours forever. (Louis L’Amour)

Every time you try to smother a truth, two others get their breath. (Bill Copeland)

The grass is always greener on the other side until you jump the fence and see the weeds up close. (Albert Grashuis)

Yesterday’s gone down the river and you can’t get it back. (Larry McMurty)

You can always tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. (Mahfouz Naguib)

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work , either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open, my chimney draws and I am happy. (John Burroughs)

If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all. (Unknown source)

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that people who sincerely try to help others always help themselves. (Charles Dudley Warner)

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in then than in 10 years by trying to get them interested in you. (Charles L. Allen)

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water. (James A. Michener)

There is a sacrifice for every success. (Pat Bell)

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you’re a vegetarian? (Dennis Wholey)

A name is made up of little promises kept to the letter. It is made up of faithfulness, loyalty, honesty, of efficiency in your work. In short, a name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, “What’s in a name?” I answer, “Just about everything you do.” (Morris Mandel)

Never confuse a single defeat with a final retreat. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. (Unknown source)

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. (Joseph Addition)

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. (Unknown source)

Life is the first give, love is the second, and understanding the third. (Marge Piercy)

No one has it all together but together we have it all. (Herbert Willis)

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