INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES March 2011

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Either a good or bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go. (Philip Chesterfield)

The road to business success is paved by those who continually strive to produce better products or services. It does not have to be a great technological product like television. Ray Kroc of McDonald’s fame did it with a simple hamburger. (Kingsley Ward)

Grey skies are just clouds passing over. (Ken Dooley)

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make the object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly. (George Bernard Shaw)

Behind every successful person there are a lot of unsuccessful years. (Unknown source)

Experience has no textbooks nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer her roll-call personally. (Minna Antrim)

You don’t want to be a sinking ship with no cargo to throw overboard. (Jon Baker)

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. (Josiah Stamp)

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent, you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. (Pearl Bailey)

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Woodrow Wilson)

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance. (Robert Quillen)

History is written by the winners. (Alex Haley)

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. (Daniel Webster)

People who cannot find time for recreation are obligated sooner or later to find time for illness (John Wanamaker)

We may be willing to tell a story twice but we are never willing to hear it more than once. (William Hazlitt)

Show me a person who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a person who cannot be trusted to do big things. (Lawrence Bell)

You can impress people from a distance. You can impact people only from up close. (William Richert)

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. (Hamilton Mabie)

There comes a time when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear. (David Mahoney)

Don’t tell me it can’t be done until you have spent at least four hours trying. (Bob Pierce)

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy. (G. S. Hillard)

Having a young child explain something exciting he has seen is the finest example of communication you will ever hear or see. (Bob Talbert)

He who will not apply new remedies must expect old evils. (Francis Bacon)

Men of principle are always bold, but bold men are not always men of principle. (Confucius)

Fate cannot be changed; otherwise it would not be fate. Man, however, may well change himself, otherwise he would not be man. (Victor Frankl)

Just as solid rocks are not shaken by the wind, so wise men are not moved by either blame or praise. (F. W. Boreham)

It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bull ring. (Spanish proverb)

Resist the usual. (Source unknown)

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they’re going to do. They rarely enjoy what they’re doing. (Eric Berne)

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. (G. K. Chesterton)

Your giving a reason for it will not make it right. You may have a reason why two and two make five, but they will still make but four. (Samuel Johnson)

Most of the successful people I’ve know are ones who do more listening than talking. You don’t have to blow out the other fellow’s light to let your own shine. (Bernard Baruch)

In good communication, people should be in no doubt that you have reached a conclusion. (John Adair)

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost. (Napoleon Bonaparte).

Fish for no compliments; they are generally caught in shallow water. (Unknown source)

The important of a decision is not what it will cost but how difficult it will be to reverse. (Peter Drucker)

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Louisa May Alcott)

The path of duty lies in the thing nearby, but men seek it in things for off. (Chinese proverb).

Forget your opponents; always play against par. (Sam Sneed)

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend; not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. (Thomas Haliburton)

A sense of humility is a quality I have observed in every leader I have deeply admired. (Dwight Eisenhower)

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. (Josiah Stamp)

There is no such thing as a minor lap of integrity (Unknown source)

Nothing fails like success because we don’t learn from it. We learn only from failure. (Kenneth Boulding)

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. (Frederick Phillips)

Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows vision, and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality. (James Womack)

Any fool can keep a rule. God gave him a brain to know when to break the rule. (Willard Scott)

No great idea was ever born at a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” (Sydney Harris)

Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus. (Laurent Daloz)

A much more effective and lasting method of face-lifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests and outdoor exercise. (Sara Jordan)

Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong. (Unknown source)

Let’s keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. (A. J. Carlson)

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. (Paul Dickson)

If a task once begun,

Never leave it till it’s done.

Be the labor great or small,

Do it well or not at all. (Unknown source)

There is no such thing as an insignificant human being. To treat people that way is a kind of sin and there’s no reason for it. None. (Debbi Fields)

America is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. (John Gunther)

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who sleeps. (Senegalese proverb)

What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don’t want to discourage it completely. (Franklin Jones)

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Seneca)

Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live. (Nancy Moser)

It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill so long as you don’t lose the cow. (Unknown source)

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. (Michael Iapoce)

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more. (Erica Jong)

Greatness lies not so much in being strong, but in the right use of strength. (Henry Ward Beecher)

You can’t hope to be lucky. You have to prepare to be lucky. (Timothy Dowd)

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

(Sidney Howard)

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. (Chinese proverb)

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