INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES SEPTEMBER 2011

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There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli)

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see him nor follow him. (George Brandes)

My will shall face the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. (Elaine Maxwell)

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. (Elie Wiesel)

“The trouble is, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “you are so afraid that you cannot hear or see properly; for one of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than they are. (Miguel De Cervantes)

Having one child makes you a parent. Having two makes you a referee. (David Frost)

When you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. (Ken Dooley)

Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back into the same box. (Italian proverb)

It’s not easy to…

apologize, begin over, take advice, be unselfish, keep on trying, be considerate, think and then act,

profit by mistakes, forgive and forget, shoulder a blame

… but it usually pays.

(Unknown source)

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words” “I did not have the time.” (Franklin Field)

The more intelligent people are the more they see differences. To the unimaginative, everything looks alike. (Harold Hamlin)

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White)

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later. (George Patton)

If you would like to know the value of money, go try to borrow some. (Benjamin Franklin)

He how seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. (Unknown source)

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. (Faith Baldwin)

I always have a question for everything. It saves original thinking. (Dorothy Sayers)

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. (John Ruskin)

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain)

Life is about chasing after the things you truly believe are worth it, even if they don’t happen. I’d rather have nothing but know I didn’t settle for something I didn’t want. (Salma Hayek)

Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off. (Ralph Buss)

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. (Percy Ross)

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. (Haitian proverb)

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. (S. I. Hayakawa)

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians (Edward Langley)

May there always be work for your hands to do,

May your purse always hold a coin or two,

May the sun always shine on your windowpane,

May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain,

May the hand of a friend always be near to you,

May God fill your hear with gladness to cheer you. (Irish Blessing)

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done. (Unknown source)

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. (Unknown source)

No man ever complains of want of opportunity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The real judges of your character aren’t your neighbors, your relatives, or even the people you play bridge with. The folks who really know you are waiters, waitresses, and clerks. (Katherine Piper)

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. (Robert Southey)

We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us. (J. Dabney Day)

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

I would rather persuade a man to go along, because once he has been persuaded he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. (Albert Camus)

Use soft words and hard arguments. (Unknown source)

The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington)

Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit. (Dianne Feinstein)

One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Dale Carnegie)

Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you get. (Unknown source)

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

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. (Frank Tibolt)

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is do indispensable, none so powerful as hope. Without hope man is only half alive. (Charles Sawyer)

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. (Mother Teresa)

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. (John Updike)

Old wood is best to burn; old horses to ride; old books to read; old wine to drink; so are old friends most trusty to use. (Leonard Wright)

The indispensable first step in getting the things you want in life is this: Decide what you want. (Ben Stein)

When I look back on these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his line, most of which never happened. (Winston Churchill)

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. (Lane Olinghouse)

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. (Dwight Eisenhower)

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. (Ken Dooley)

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