INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES April 2014

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A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. (Thomas Jefferson)

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden)

I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become. (Oprah Winfrey)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein)

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. (Charles Kettering)

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. (Latin Proverb)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. (Voltaire)

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a candle in the wind:

Never fading with the sunset

Or when the rain sets in.

And your footsteps always fall here

On England's greenest hills;

Your candle burned out long before

Your legend ever will. (Elton John and Bernie Taupin)

A great statesman is one who can work for long-term goals which eventually suit situations as yet unforeseen. (Jean Monnet)

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to you own lot: to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. (Thomas Edwards0

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. (German proverb)

A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open. (Frank Zappa)

If you want your dreams to come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. (J. M. Power)

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson)

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. (Dennis P. Kimbro)

Winners lose much more often than losers. So it you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track. (Matthew Keith Groves)

An obstacle is often a stepping stone. (Prescott)

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. (Helen Keller)

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

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. (Zig Ziglar)

If not us, who? If not now, when? (John F. Kennedy)

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. (Dale Carnegie)

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. (Publilius Syrus)

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. (Joe Clark)

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. (Richard L. Evans)

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi)

Some men see things as they are and say why. It is better to dream things that never were and say why not. (George Bernard Shaw)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. (Sidney Greenberg)

Charity, good behavior, amiable speech, unselfishness -these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity. (Burmese proverb)

If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. (Epictetus)

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. (George Eliot)

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,

Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. (Juvenal)

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. (Doug Firebaugh)

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison)

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. (Zig Ziglar)

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Napoleon Hill)

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. (Bill Vaughn)

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. (Ray Kroc)

Thought is action in rehearsal. (Sigmund Freud)

It is a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. (Franklin Jones)

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress (David Rockefeller)

Copy from one person, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. (Wilson Mizner)

The person who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it. (Bill Copeland)

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. (Mary Montagu)

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. (Paul Harvey)

When Calvin Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts, two of the state senators had an argument which ended with one telling the other to "go to hell." The insulted politician went to see Coolidge and asked him to do something about it. Coolidge said calmly, "I have looked up the law, senator, and you don/t have to go." (Ken Dooley)

The future is the past returning through another gate. (Franklin Burke)

Four little words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did what was expected of them and a little bit more. (A. Louis Vickery)

He who likes cherries soon learns to climb. (Swedish proverb)

Love endures only when the two lovers love many things together and not merely each other. (Walter Lipmann)

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil. (Unknown source)

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. (Sara Teasdale)

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves; don't accuse the sun of partiality. (Chinese proverb)

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. (Tom Brokaw)

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. (Amelia Earhart)

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry-go-round. (Julie Andrews)

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. (Ann Landers)

The very essences of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. (Theodore Hesburgh)

Whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time you've got. (Art Buchwald)

The most beautiful discovery true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. (Elizabeth Foley)

The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it. (Satchel Paige)

If you get a reputation as an early riser, you can sleep till noon. (Irish proverb)

Gossip is that which no one claims to like - but everybody enjoys. (Joseph Conrad)

Taking the easy way in life always ends up being the hard way. There are no shortcuts in life. (Elizabeth Brandon-Brown)

A compulsion is a highbrow term for a temptation we're not trying too hard to resist. (Hugh Allen)

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: If we can take the worst, take the risk. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. (Martha Washington)

Good judgment comes from experience. Sometimes experience comes from bad judgment. (Christian Slater)

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. (Leonard Levenson)

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