INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES December 2014

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. (Ali ibn-Abi-Talib)

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John Churton Collins)

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. (Al Batt)

The reason most people don't reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. (Denis Watley)

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. (Christopher Morley)

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. (Austin O'Malley)

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. (Walt Schmidt)

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. (William James)

A politician without a prepared text is like Boris Becker without a tennis racquet, a dog biscuit without a dog, or opera glasses without an opera. (Carl Bowra)

Wit is educated insolence. (Aristotle)

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins. (Stuart Chase)

There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. (Leigh Hunt)

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not. (James Feibleman)

There are two insults no American will endure: the accusation that he has no sense of humor and the assertion that he has never known trouble. (Sinclair Lewis

It is an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed. (Storm Jameson)

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years. (Unknown source)

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. (Walt Streightiff)

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. (Charles Warner)

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears.

Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.

And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

Who conquers now shall rule the coming years. (Sarah Bolton)

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. (David Grayson)

Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. (Clarence Day)

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. (Herb Caen)

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. (Jessamyn West)

Civilization is the victory of persuasion over force. (Plato)

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not without enchantment then where is it to be found. (J. B. Priestley)

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a word that we cannot enter in any other way. (Caroline Gordon)

Character is a strange blend of flinty strength and pliable warmth. (Robert Schaffer)

A leading authority is one who has guessed right more than once. (Frank Clark)

Honesty is something you can't wear out. (Waylon Jennings)

A good speech is like a good haircut - it's all in the trimming. (Robert Orgen)

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. (Calvin Coolidge)

Nothing is more dangerous to a person than success without achievement. (Unknown source)

Never assume the obvious is true. (William Safire)

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. (Theodore Roosevelt)

I do not believe in recovery. The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each for each of us forever, and it should be. (Lillian Hellman)

Movie morals have changed. When I was a kid, a film was obscene if the horse wasn't wearing a saddle. (Danny Thomas)

The liar's punishment is not that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. (George Bernard Shaw)

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. (Peter Fleming)

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Lack of willpower and drive cause more failures than lack of intelligence and ability. (Harry Banks)

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. (Frederick William Faber)

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys more. (Erastus Wiman)

Look to be treated by others and you have treated others. (Pullilius Syrus)

I have made it a rule to never to be with a person ten minutes without trying to make him happier. (Unknown source)

Charity, good behavior, amiable speech, unselfishness - these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. (Burmese proverb)

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (J. M. Barrie)

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future. (Richard Corliss)

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Honesty is a stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but never heals. (Gretel Erlich)

Human dignity, economic freedom, individual responsibility - these are the characteristics that distinguish democracy from all other forms of government. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. (Mignon McLaughlin)

You really have to know a lot before you know how little you known. (Unknown source)

The word "no" carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say "yes." (Joyce Maynard)

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. (Glenda Jackson)

Would you buy a used car from yourself? (Sparky Anderson)

We are, of course, a nation of differences. These differences don't make us weak. They are the source of our strength. (Jimmy Carter)

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. (G. K. Chesterton)

Happiness walks on busy feet. (Kitte Turmell)

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. (Dag Hammarskjold)

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. (Seth Godin)

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. (William Shakespeare)

To have more, desire less. (Unknown source)

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions. (Arthur Rubenstein)

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. (Henry Steele Commager)

The truth will ouch. (Arnold Glasow)

Inventors and men of genius have always been regarded as fools at the beginning - and very often at the end - of their careers. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Recall it as often as you wish - a happy memory never wears out. (Libbie Fudim)

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