INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JULY 2011

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To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. (George Orwell)

Man is a strange animal. He doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is against it. (Adlai Stevenson)

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. (Haim Ginett)

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. (Julian Barnes)

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)

Remember if your teenager doesn’t think you are a real embarrassment and a hard-nosed bore, you are probably not doing your job. (H. Jackson Brown)

The cheapest way to develop your family tree is to run for public office. (Jim Dooley)

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. (French proverb)

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanation. (H. H. Munro)

A rich person should leave his kids enough to do something, but not enough to do nothing. (Warren Buffet)

It’s not so much where we are but where we’re headed. (Paige Glenister)

A good teacher is like a candle; it consumes itself to light the way for others. (Unknown source)

Just think how happy you’d be if you lost everything you have and then got it all back. (David Moore)

Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation. (Ken Hubbard)

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. (Abigail Van Buren)

People seldom live up to their baby pictures. (Rodney Dangerfield)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes)

Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it you can. (Danny Kaye)

Never answer an angry word with an angry word. It’s the second one that makes the quarrel. (W. A. Nance)

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. (Albert Einstein)

We need to narrow the gap between the world as it is and what it should be. (Michelle Obama)

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot harder to make a difference. (Tom Brokow)

He who opens a school door closes a prison. (Victor Hugo)

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Charles Kettering)

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. (Unknown source)

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. (Chinese proverb)

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. (Dennis Wholey)

When the best leader’s work is done, people think they’ve done it themselves. (Lao Tzu)

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. (Josh Billings)

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. (Pat Conroy)

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than others do. (Willa Cather)

You can outdistance that which is running after your, but not what is running inside you. (Rwandan proverb)

It is never wise to seek or wish for another’s misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. (Charlie Reese)

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same. (Unknown source)

I hated every minute of the training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and life the rest of your life as a champion.” (Muhammad Ali)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. ((SaviellyTartakower)

Any coward can fight a battle he’s sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he’s sure of losing. (George Eliot)

The mediocre teacher tells.

The good teacher explains.

The superior teacher demonstrates.

The great teacher inspires. (William Ward)

First things first, second things never. (Shirley Conran)

Life can be long or short; everything depends upon how we live it. (Paulo Coelho)

According to most studies, people’s No. 1 fear is public speaking, No. 2 is death. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. (Jerry Seinfeld)

It’s where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us where we are.” (Joyce Oates)

Forget the past. No one becomes successful in the past. (Richard Bell)

The wise person questions himself; the fool others. (Henri Arnold)

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (Thomas Edison)

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. (Charles William Stubbs)

Other people’s faults are like bees - if we don’t see them, they don’t harm us. (Luis Vigil)

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out? (Will Rogers)

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. (Chinese proverb)

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Unknown source)

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. When there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go far wrong. (Ella Fitzgerald)

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening and hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all.

You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality to build a self-image with which you are able to live. (Maxwell Maltz)

Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you. (Unknown source)

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home and think about besides homework. (Lily Tomlin)

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. (Phyllis Diller)

Truly grown is he who hasn’t lost his child’s heart. (Meng Tsen)

To be the father of a great nation is an honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy. (Nelson Mandela)

The average person thinks he isn’t. (Father Larry Lorenzoini)

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. (John Collins)

Keep me away from wisdom which doesn’t cry, philosophy that doesn’t laugh and greatness which doesn’t bow down before children. (Kahlil Gibran)

The greatest strength is gentleness. (Iroquois proverb)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler)

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? (Abraham Lincoln)

If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument. (Unknown source)

Good timber does not grow with ease;

The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. (J. Willard Marriott)

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

Don’t be so humble - you are not that great. (Golda Meir)

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - not lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And - which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son! (From “If,” by Rudyard Kipling)

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