INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JUNE 2012

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If you rest, you rust. (Helen Hayes)

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. (Zig Ziglar)

The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time. (Joe Girard)

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. (Marie Osmond)

Pessimism never won any battle. (Dwight Eisenhower)

A person has to go back, really back - to have a sense, an understanding of all that’s gone to make them - before they can go forward. (Pauline Marshall)

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not opening it? (Robert Ballard)

To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it. (Unknown source)

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. (John F. Kennedy)

If you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and think. (Unknown source)

When I hear someone sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” (Sydney Harris)

It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer. (Albert Einstein)

There’s no half-singing in the shower, you’re either a rock star or an opera diva.” (Josh Groban)

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (Unknown source)

To get the best, simply give your best. (Soren Lauritzen)

It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. (Addison Walker)

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. (Frank Tyger)

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (William Ward)

The glory of great people should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. (Unknown source)

I touch the future. I teach. (Christa McAuliffe)

Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. (Doris Mortman)

If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable or fun, and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the heck are you doing there? (Robert Townsend)

You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put nickels in the machine. (Flip Wilson)

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. (Henry Ward Beecher)

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham)

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Molly Schantz)

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. (Adlai Stevenson)

An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. (Ken Dooley)

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. (Henny Youngman)

Patience is the ability to put up with people you’d like to put down. (Ulrike Ruffert)

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass. (George Herbert)

All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not in the head. (Suzanne Chazin)

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. (Eric Hoffer)

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)

A nation’s greatness resides not in her material resources, but in her will, faith, intelligence and moral forces. (James Hoppin)

Of all music, that which pleases the ear is applause. But it has no score. It ends and is carried off by the wind. Nothing remains. (Enrique Solari)

Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree. (Irving Batcheller)

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. (Kahlil Gibran)

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. (Michelangelo)

Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. (Victor Borge)

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. (Abraham Heschel)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (H. L. Mencken)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. (Lao Tzu)

Facts that are not frankly faced have a habit of stabbing us in the back. (Harold Bowden)

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

Grudges get heavier the longer they are carried. (P. K. Tomajan)

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog. (Mark Twain)

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Never forget that is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful of futile. (Adelaide Hasse)

A friend is like a flower,

a rose to be exact,

Or maybe like a brand new gate

that never comes unlatched.

A friend is like an owl,

both beautiful and wise.

Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,

whose spirit never dies.

A friend is like a heart that goes

strong until the end.

Where would we be in this world

if we didn’t have a friend? (Emma Gues)

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