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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for OCTOBER 2010

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The biggest bonfire starts from the smallest spark.

(Richard Saunders)

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

(Ken Dooley)

If every man’s internal care

Were written on his brow,

How many would our pity share

Who raise our envy now?

(Pietro Metastasio)

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

(Wilson Mizner)

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

(Mary Bell)

Like the eagle, once we have learned to soar it is almost effortless.

(Unknown source)

What is hard to bear is sweet to remember.

(Portuguese proverb)

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside the windows today.

(Dale Carnegie)

Risk more than others think is safe.

Care more than others think is wise.

Dream more than others think is practical.

(Anton Chekhov)

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

(Maya Angelou)

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of sheep.

(Malayan proverb)

Expect more than others think is possible.

(Unknown source)

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

(Hugh Prather)

Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.

(Herbert Gardner)

Smart people waste no time thinking other pastures are greener; they do not yearn for yesterday or tomorrow. They savor the moment, glad to be alive, enjoying their work, their families, and the good things around them.

(Unknown source)

They can because they think they can.

(Unknown source)

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.

(Dorothy Fadiman)

The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.

(Abigail Van Buren)

I never got a job I didn’t create for myself.

(Ruth Gordon)

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,

Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

(Juvenal)

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

(John Raper)

“Wait’ll next year!” is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans and gardeners.

(Robert Orben)

Avoiding failure is not the same as seeking success.

(Roger Fritz)

I believe in give and take. I give orders and my kids take them.

(Unknown source)

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

(Evan Esar)

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman’s sink and a brilliant sculpture.

(Bob Kall)

If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

(Kevin Spacey)

When you’re green, you’re growing; when you’re ripe, you rot.

(Ray Kroc)

The proper means of increasing the love we bear out native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

(William Shenstone)

There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

(Ronald Reagan)

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.

(Michael Pritchard)

A politician is someone who can borrow $20, pay you back $10 and declare you’re even because you both lost $10.

(Unknown source)

Marry a woman who has brains for two and you’ll come out even.

(Ken Alstad)

It’s hard to put a foot in a shut mouth.

(Ken Alstad)

Surprise is a near-sighted porcupine fallin’ in love with a cactus.

(Ken Alstad)

I’ve learned that the older I get, the more I say “I don’t know.” When I was younger, I thought I knew it all.

(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

(Hyman G. Rickover)

A variety of nothing is better than a monotony of something.

(Jean-Paul Richter)

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

(Theodore Roosevelt)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

(Jack Benny)

If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

(Mel Brooks)

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what is my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

(Kirk Douglas)

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to do something else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

I don’t care how much money you have - free stuff is always a good thing.

(Queen Latifah)

Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable; faith means believing the unbelievable; and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.

(G.K.Chesterton)

The only thing you can be sure of improving is yourself.

(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Put off a hard thing makes it impossible.

(George Lorimer)

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

(Rebecca Richards)

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

(Robert Orben)

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great people.

(Unknown source)

I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.

(Paul McCartney)

Fools live to regret their words, wise men their silence.

(Will Henry)

The reason that lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.

(Ken Dooley)

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

(John Roper)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity if forever.

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

The average person thinks he or she isn’t.

(Ken Dooley)

I’ve learned that if you spend your life always looking for something else, the present just slips away.

(H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

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