INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JULY 2012

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Never look for birds of this year in the nest of the last. (Miguel De Cervantes)

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. (Ellen Burstyn)

Throughout the centuries there were man who took the first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. (Ayn Rand)

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. (Confucius)

Never be afraid to do something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the titanic. (Anonymous)

It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference. (Paul “Bear” Bryant)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost).

We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. (Martha Grimes)

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us. (Unknown source)

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: You know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault. (Robert Hutchins)

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. (Warren Buffet)

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find out our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. (Van Wyck Brooks)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself. (English proverb)

Action is the antidote to despair. (Ken Dooley)

Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective on your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never have enough. (Oprah Winfrey)

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. (Pearl Buck)

Hold fast to dreams

For it dreams die,

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

(Langston Hughes)

Success is never final, but failure can be. (Bill Parcells)

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided but surely the most underemployed talent in the world. (Christine Collange)

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scores excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. (John Gardner)

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Malachy McCourt)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; it we did not sometimes have a taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)

Discipline is remembering what you want. (David Campbell)

The mask, given time, comes to the face itself. (Unknown source)

If you would have your son to walk honorable through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. (Anne Bronte)

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. (Doug Larsen)

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. (Les Brown)

Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then. (Dave McIntyre).

Women’s place is in the House - and the Senate. (Gloria Schaffer)

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then you time on earth will be filled with glory. (Betty Smith)

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. (Susan Spanno)

Misers are not fun to live with, but they make great ancestors. (Tom Snyder)

There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Irene Kassorla)

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. (Shirley MacLaine)

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. (Buddha)

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things … I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. (Leo Buscaglia)

I like nonsense, it wakes up brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and than enables you to laugh at life’s realities. (Theodor Geisel (Dr. Suess))

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the blank and the white notes together. (Richard M. Nixon)

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. (Unknown source)

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;

When health is lost, something is lost;

When character is lost, all is lost.

(German proverb)

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables. (Swedish proverb)

You can buy a person’s time; you can buy his physical presence in a given place; you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per year. But you cannot buy enthusiasm. You cannot buy initiative. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn those things. (Clarence Francis)

There is no economy without education. (Yvonne Chan)

You have to slow down the train before you turn it around. (Kim Tredick)

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