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Inspirational quotes for JULY 2010

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While this door is closing, another door is opening. It’s our job to go find that door.

(Matthew Perry)

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

(Anonymous)

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

(Ken Dooley)

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.

(Henry Ford)

Everything at a baseball game is a little brighter, a little sharper, a little more in focus. It’s a magical break from the worries and cares of everyday life.

(Larry King)

Cleaning your house

While your kids are still growing

Is like shoveling the walk

Before it starts snowing.

(Phyllis Diller)

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

(Abraham Lincoln)

If a June afternoon could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

(Bern Williams)

The cell phone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

(Robert McNamara)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

(William Saroyan)

If you wish to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you wish to know your future, look into your present actions.

(Chinese proverb)

Self-confidence and honesty are a great combination. Confidence in one’s ability is important, but it works best when matched by the honesty to recognize a few defects.

(Unknown source)

Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight.

(Old Scottish saying)

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

(Margaret Thatcher)

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don’t know what’s on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

(Robert Altman)

It’s not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

(Jennifer Garner)

The difference between a successful career and a mediocre one sometimes consists of leaving about for or five things a day unsaid.

(Unknown source)

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

(Franklin D. Roosevelt)

When I’ve had a rough day, before I go to sleep I ask myself if there’s anything more I can do right now. If there isn’t, I sleep soundly.

(Lester Colbert)

To most people, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illuminates only the track it has passed.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Don’t get discouraged. No one is perfeck.

(Unknown source)

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars. I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

(Warren Buffett)

Holding on the anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else - you are the one who gets burned.

(Buddha)

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

(Epictetus)

Slang is the language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

(Carl Sandburg)

Whenever I think some particularly nice about a person, I tell them. I might never get another chance.

(Unknown source)

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

(Olin Miller)

Inside every 70-year-old is a 35-year-old asking, “What happened?”

(Ann Landers)

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as the sun declines.

(Edward Young)

Speak softly and sweetly. If your words are soft and sweet, they won’t be hard to swallow when you have to eat them.

(James Thurber)

Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.

(Henry Ward Beecher)

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.

(Della Reese)

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill, he gave my six months more.

(Walter Matthau)

No great man ever complains about want of opportunities.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Consider this paradox: Almost everything that is publicly said these days is recorded. Almost nothing of what is said is worth remembering.

(Ted Koppel)

Those who devote 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as they thought themselves at 20.

(Thomas Jefferson)

A drunken tongue tells what’s on a sober mind.

(Ken Alstad)

Do not wait; the time will never by “just right.” Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

(Napoleon Hill).

A baby-sitter is a teenager who comes in to act like an adult while the adults go out and act like teenagers.

(Harry Marsh)

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

(Bertrand Russell)

Saddle your horse before sassin’ the boss.

(Ken Alstad)

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when opened.

(Thomas Dewar)

Internal Revenue agent to Sherlock Holmes: “You make a lot of amazing deductions.”

(Ken Dooley)

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

(Henry Van Dyke)

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can’t stand Picasso, those who can’t stand Raphael, and those who’ve never hear of either of them.

(John White)

If you build castles in the air, your work may not be lost: That is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

(Henry David Thoreau)

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

(Wilson Mizner)

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

(Bruce Lee)

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

(Lou Holtz)

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.

(Henry David Thoreau)

Each of June’s new graduates

Has left his college hall.

The world is now his oyster,

The future is his thrall.

He thinks he knows a great, great deal

More than his parents do -

And speaking of that state of mine,

The chances are it’s true.

(Leverett Lyon)

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