INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES January 2016

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You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. (Shri Nehru)

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. (Lawrence Peter)

It was involuntary. They sank my boat. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy, being asked how he became a WWII hero)

Anyone kin look tall when surrounded by shorties. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

If you see a coward with a gun, it’s time to get scared or scarce. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

The hottest fire is made by the wood you chop yourself. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

When wise men are talkin’, let your ears hang down and listen. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

A drunken tongue tells what’s on a sober mind. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

You don’t need help fallin’down but a hand up is sure welcome. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

A cat has nine lives, but a lie can live forever. (Ken Alstad, SAVVY SAYIN’S)

Not failure, but low aim is a crime (Ernest Holmes)

Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know what half to believe. (Ken Dooley)

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money ,power and influence. (Henry Chester)

Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you're the one who gets burned. (Buddha)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. (Unknown source)

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. (Unknown source)

Someone has to give way. There is rule in sailing that the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (David Bly)

Some people storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties that do not exist. (Unknown source)

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every possible pebble on the road. (Henry Ward Beecher)

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. (Vic Gold)

Simple solutions seldom are. (Unknown source)

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground and win a little more later. (Louis L'Amour)

A friend never gets in the way, unless you happen to be on the way down. (Evan Esar)

To change and change for the better are two separate things. (Unknown source)

There are no shortcuts to the top. There is one thing worse than not getting to where you want to go and that is not being equipped once you get there. (Unknown source)

Winners make their goals; losers make excuses. (Unknown source)

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby)

Some people are confident they could move mountains if only somebody would just clear the foothills. (Unknown source)

The person who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before deciding never decides. (Henri Amiel)

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it. (Unknown source)

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. (Lyndon Baines Johnson)

I don't try to jump over seven-foot bars. I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. (Warren Buffet)

Obstacles are those frightful things you wee when you take your eyes off your goals. (Unknown source)

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. (Jean de L Bruyere)

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. (Unknown source)

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time. (Unknown source)

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. (Golda Meir)

It takes over 20 years to make an overnight success. (Eddie Cantor)

The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein)

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Breault)

Ride the horse in the direction it's going. (Werner Erhard)

The great dividing time between success and failure can be expressed in five words" "I did not have time." (Unknown source)

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (Bill Bradley)

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job (Malcolm Forbes)

It's amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. (Sandra Swinney)

It's never too late to be what you might have been. (George Elliot)

The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development. (Alfred North Whitehead)

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy - unless you let them. (Joseph Joubert)

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum)

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. (Unknown source)

A shortcut is often the quickest way to some place you weren't going. (Unknown source)

In thinking, keep to the simple.

In conflict, be fair and generous.

In governing, don't try to control.

In work, do what you enjoy.

In family, be completely present. (Tao-Te Ching)

A trip to nostalgia now and then is good for the spirit, as long as you don't set up housekeeping. (Dan Bartolovic)

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. (C. D. Jackson)

There are a lot of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. (Josh Billings)

Reputation is what you are perceived to be. Character is what you are. (John Wooden)

When you concede a critic's good will, you disarm an attacker and encourage an enemy.

Experience is what you get by not having it when you need it. (Unknown source)

Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the one you develop on your own. (Lee Iacocca)

It's no longer possible to solve today's problems with yesterday's solutions. Over and over again people are finding out that what worked two years ago won't work next week. (Roger van Oach)

If it weren't for the rocks in the bed, the stream would have no song. (Carl Perkins)

Stand up when others choose to sit down; Step forward when others prefer to step back; Speak out when the voices of silence are so deafening. (Unknown source)

It's better to sleep on what you intend doing than to stay awake over what you have done. (Bill Gold)

Go for the big fish. You'll spend the same time baiting the hook. (Kevin DuPont)

It is our choices that show who we really are, far more than our abilities. (J. K. Rowling)

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do. (W. T. Grant)

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong actions in the past. (Tyron Edwards)

One of the hardest things to learn in life is where your business ends and somebody else's begins. (Oscar Guilbert)

Those who fall for anything stand for nothing. (Alexander Hamilton)

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. (Fred Allen)

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. (Unknown source)

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. (Buddah)

Great minds like a think. (Chris Burns)

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. (Livy)

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. (Joseph Manning)

Some more silly Herkimer moan-and-groan jokes.

1. Why did Herkimer think he was always on the outside looking in?

2. What did Herkimer say when the strings on his tennis racquet broke?

3. How did Herkimer attempt to explain his losses at a Nevada casino?

4. When Herkimer returned from a trip to New York City, why did he claim that he had seen the first

President's dentures?

5. Why did Herkimer think that Cleopatra was a very negative person?

Solutions-------------------------------------------------------->

1. He was a window washer.

2. "It was a gut reaction."

3. He said, "I haven't the Vegas idea."

4. He saw the George Washington Bridge.

5. Because he heard she was the queen of denial.

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