INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MAY 2013

Sanderson

The art of secrecy lies in being so open about most things that the few things that matter are not even suspected to exist. (H. Liddell Hart)

When your cart reaches the foot of the mountain, a path will appear. (Chinese proverb)

Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. (Sherman Finesilver)

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. (Henry Ward Beecher)

People with tact have less to retract. (Ann Landers)

A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. (Thomas Fuller)

A democracy is badly served when newspapers and television focus so intensely on the personal joys and tragedies of famous people. This kind of "news" crowds out more serious issues, and here is an important difference - as the Constitution's framers well knew, and as many people today appear to have forgotten - between the public interest and what interests the public. (Cass Sunstein)

The supreme sin is not to be able to forgive yourself. (Waldo Frank)

How people play the game shows something of their character; how they lose shows all of it. (Graham Greene)

A sure cure for a toothache is to tickle a mule's heel. (Ken Alstad)

It doesn't matter what position you're in. But it matters what direction you are moving. (Unknown source)

Not to decide is to decide. (Harvey Cox)

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family "gets together" alone. (Ashley Montagu)

Praise is like champagne; it should be served while it is still bubbling. (Leigh Hunt)

I teach in order to learn. (Robert Frost)

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it. (Unknown source)

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world. (Susan Cooper)

For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roof rack. (Laundry instructions on a shirt made by HEET (Korea))

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us. We can only trust there will be enough to carry us through trials which may lie ahead. (Andre Norton)

After some folks tell you all they know, they keep on talkin'. (Sam Alstad)

A person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned sixty or seventy times as much as a person who hasn't. (Mark Twain)

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him figure you figure. (Whitey Herzog)

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. (Norman MacEwan)

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, ,failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. (Jim Robin)

The reverse side also has a reverse side. (Japanese proverb)

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. (Thomas Jefferson)

Neither great poverty or great riches will hear reason. (Henry Fielding)

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But, if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue. (Alice Miller)

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. (Charles de Gaulle)

If you don't say anything, you won't be asked to repeat yourself. (Calvin Coolidge)

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stock boys. (Sam Walton)

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James)

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. (Robert Heinlein)

There is a foolish corner in the brains of the wisest people. (Aristotle)

You never know your luck 'til the wheel stops. (Ken Alstad)

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. (Sam Rayburn)

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is apt to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. (Ling Po)

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, the laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. (Carl Sagan)

The least said, the sooner mended. (Ken Alstad)

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. (W. B. Prescott)

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. (Unknown source)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)

A man all wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. (Unknown source)

To reach a goal, we must sail sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)

We set standards for drugs, because bad drugs cross state lines. Well, badly educated children cross state lines, too. (Adm. Hyman G. Rickover)

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." (Benjamin Franklin)

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (African proverb)

I couldn't wait for success so I went ahead without it. (Jonathan Winters)

One thing about experience is that when you don't have very much you're apt to get a lot. (Franklin P. Jones)

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. (Robert Frost)

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. (Sidney Goff)

Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. (Charles Spurgeon)

Please all and you please none. (Source unknown)

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. (Duke Snider)

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. (Mary Kay Ash)

It's impossible not to feel good about yourself if you make someone smile. (Enzo D'Alimonte)

Life without purpose

is barren indeed.

There can't be a harvest

unless you plant seed. (Unknown source)

Gold metals are not really made of gold. They are made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. (Unknown source)

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

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