INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FEBRUARY 2013

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We live in a timeline, although many of us act like we don’t. (Steven Gleason)

A wise man doesn’t burn his bridges until he knows he can part the waters. (Ashanti proverb)

You want me to do something? Tell me I can’t do it. (Maya Angelou)

If you make every game a life or death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot. (Dean Smith)

The upper crust is a bunch of crumbs held together by some dough. (Joseph A. Thomas)

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshipping the ashes. (Gustav Mahler)

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him or her. (Unknown source)

Stature comes not with height but with depth. (Louise Moore)

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. (Blaise Pascal)

He commands respect because he doesn’t demand it. (Unknown source)

Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon. (David Moore)

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. (Zelda Fitzgerald)

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

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier to do don’t need to be done. (Andy Rooney)

The man who boasts he never made a mistake is often married to a woman who did. (Unknown source)

Creativity is intelligence having fun. (Albert Einstein)

When anger enters, wisdom departs. (Buddha)

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

Ain’t nobody full dead until no one remembers their name. (Walter Mosley)

Some minds are like concrete – thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. (Unknown source)

There is a destiny that makes us brothers,

None goes his way alone.

All that we send into the lives of others,

Comes back onto our own.

(Edward Markham)

It’s really rude to talk while I’m interrupting. (Unknown source)

When all is said and done, a lot more is said then done. (Unknown source)

I know everything about Algebra. Unfortunately, I’m sworn to secrecy. (Jonathan Winters)

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have. (Ring Lardner)

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine out of ten times it will. (Paul Harvey)

When if comes to good health it’s not only what you’re eating that’s important, but what’s eating at you. (Unknown source)

The more joy we have the more nearly perfect we are. (Benedict de Spinoza)

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. (Unknown source)

I find one common denominator among all the people I love – all of them make me laugh. (W. H. Auden)

Your children need your presence more than your presents. (Jesse Jackson)

The persons hardest to convince they’re at the retirement age are children at bedtime. (Sharon Fife)

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. (Unknown source)

Forecasting is hard, especially about the future. (Yogi Berra)

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep up from buying it. (William Feather)

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. (Thor Heyerdahl)

The other planets may not be able to support life, but it isn’t easy on this one either. (Donald Stone)

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. (Robert Benchley)

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure. (Unknown source)

There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle. (Samuel Butler)

Children are poor men’s riches. (English proverb)

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer “present” or “not guilty.” (Theodore Roosevelt)

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. (Edward Lytton)

We talk on principle, but we act on interest. (Walter Landor)

The young man who has not wept is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. (George Santayana)

We are never prepared for what we expect. (James Michener)

Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it. (Roger Clay)

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. (Everett Dirksen)

To have enough is good luck, to have more than enough is harmful. This is true of all things, but especially of money. (Chuang-Tzu)

If you can distinguish between good advice and bad advice, then you don’t need advice. (Arthur Bloch)

Some people have built-in filters that screen out the boos and amplify the hurrahs. These are the people who never know when they’re in trouble. (Tommy Davis)

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. (George Bernard Shaw)

Appeasing a tyrant is like hand-feeding a shark. (James Dailey)

If advertisers spent the same amount of money improving their product as they do on advertising, they wouldn’t have to advertise it. (Will Rogers)

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Clarence Darrow)

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. (Jean Paul Richter)

Life is easier than you think: all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. (Kathleen Norris)

Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make people laugh, you can make them think and make them like and believe you. (Alfred E. Smith)

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot. (Steven Wright)

It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. (Unknown source)

Life is just a journey

Full of twists and bends

But when you rely on family

And the value of your friends

You’ll find that journey easier

And the path not quote so rough.

Each step you take with others

Helps is not be so hard and tough. (Sharon Hendricks)

A few Ken Alstad western one-liner quotes:

Worry is like a rockin’ horse. It’s somethin’ to do that don’t get you nowhere.

A crooked tree will never straighten it branches.

Priceless ain’t free.

Tossin’ a rope before buildin’ a loop don’t catch the calf.

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