INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES November 2013

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (Albert Einstein)

Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least. (Charley Willey)

We become what we think about. (Earl Nightingale)

Life is 10% of what happens to be and 90% of how I react to it. (John Maxwell)

Don't wait. The time will never be just right. (Napoleon Hill)

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. (Stephen Covey)

The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. (Mark Twain)

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism; do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. (Aristotle)

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. (Dale Carnegie)

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. (Henry Ford)

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. (Erma Bombeck)

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. (Indian proverb)

I remember things the way they should have been. (Truman Capote)

Angles can fly because they take themselves lightly. (G. K. Chesterton)

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself. (Jack Carson)

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it the most always like it the least. (Lord Chesterfield)

If I believed the polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning. (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

Character is power. It has influence: It makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage and support, and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honor and happiness. (Joel Hawes)

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. (Jean Cocteau)

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph Sockman)

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. (W. B.Prescott)

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what people do. (Andrew Carnegie)

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. (Winston Churchill)

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Don't ever confuse motion with progress. (Unknown source)

As you go through life, you are going to have opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Take advantage of all of them. (James Dent).

Believe you can and you're halfway there. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. (George Addair)

The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes. (Benjamin Disraeli)

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato)

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. (Christopher Reeve)

Fall seven times and stand up eight. (Japanese proverb)

The only person who can't be helped is that person who blames others. (Carp Rogers)

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. (John Lennon)

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. (Lao Tzu)

You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. (Unknown source)

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing (Walt Disney)

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Bill Cosby)

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. (Roger Staubach)

What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it. (Dan Rather)

The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves. (Garth Henrichs)

The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying. (Margaret Wheatly)

Make the best of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Ralph W. Anderson)

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. (Ken Keyes)

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. (Sydney Smiles)

The best and only way to avoid work is to love what you do so that it is no longer work. (Sidney Franklin)

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ((Unknown source)

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. (Abigail Van Buren)

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. (Farrah Gray)

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Joshua J. Marine)

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. (Evan Esar)

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today; to do the little parts of our work with more force than ever before. (Stewart Johnson)

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. (Unknown source)

The pioneers cleared the forests from Jamestown to the Mississippi with fewer tools than are stored in the typical modern garage. (Dwaine Lewis)

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. (Andrew Fitzpatrick)

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. (Unknown source)

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost)

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age, but only if the grapes were good in the first place. (Abigail Van Buren)

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. (Lawrence J. Peter)

The two words, information and communication are often used interchangeably, but they signify different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. (Sydney Harris)

When I was young I admired clever people. Now that I am older, I admire kind people. (Abraham Herschel)

People today are so contrary that if they should fall into a river, they would insist upon floating upstream. (Josh Billings)

Music is the shorthand of emotion. (Leo Tolstoy)

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Abba Eban)

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. (Charlie Brower)

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. (Edmud Burke)

A few SAVVY SAYIN'S quotes from Ken Alstad....

"If you'd like to know a man, find out what makes him mad."

"If you want to leave your mark, don't let the sun catch you in bed."

"Don't interfere with nothin' that don't bother you."

"A skunk don't trifle when it comes to his perfume."

"The farther you run, the longer the way back."

"Drunks sober up. Fools remain fools."

"For better or for worse means for good."

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. (Tyron Edwards)

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. (Norman Vincent Peale)

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