INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES March 2015

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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. (Patricia Neal)

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. (John Tillotson)

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wisdom. (Ralph W. Sockman)

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ernest Demmet)

Haste is good only in catching fleas. (AllaYaroshinskaya)

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every person the reflection of his or her own face. (William Makepeace Thackeray)

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. (Dorothy Canfield Fisher)

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself. (O. A. Battista)

The egotist always hurts the one he loves - himself. (Bernice Peers)

Do not believe those people who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love. (Gerald Brenan)

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. (Unknown source)

Change starts when someone sees the next step. (William Drayton)

The best way to accomplish something is just to do it, and then find the courage afterward. (George Chapman)

Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and spiritual into the workable way of human life. (William L. Sidger)

Perhaps parents would enjoy their children more if they stopped to realize that the film of childhood can never be run through for a second showing. (Evelyn Nown)

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. (Unknown source)

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. (Donald Rumsfeld)

Nobody can take away the dances you've already had. (Gabriel Marquez)

He who turns the other cheek too far gets it in the neck. (Harold Hert)

A speech should be as long as a piece of string - long enough to wrap up the package. (Unknown source)

Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man's companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. (George Carlin)

Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. (Malcolm de Chazal)

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. (H. L. Mencken)

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end. (Jon Bon Jovi)

Ought is not a word we should use for other people. It's a word we should reserve for ourselves. (Sister Wendy Beckett)

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea. (Enoch Powell)

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry. (Tom Ferguson)

Luck is a way of rewarding people who don't rely on it. (Unknown source)

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. (Meryl Streep)

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Prejudice saves a lot of time because you can form an opinion without the facts. (Unknown source)

I stared at the TV hoping that sleep would ambush me. (Walter Mosley)

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

You're better off knowing the rules before you try to break them. (Stephen King)

"For example" shouldn't be confused with truth. (Yiddish proverb)

One must not criticize others on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. (Mark Twain)

How are you going to get out of this hole? The first thing to do is stop digging. (Mike Tomlin)

You can't create the future by clinging to the past. (Unknown source)

If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room. (Michael Dell)

It is easier to build a child than fix an adult. (Frederick Douglass)

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. (Mother Teresa)

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Henry Kissinger)

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. (Stanislaw Lec)

The longer the title the less important the job. (George McGovern)

If you take big paces you leave big spaces. (Burmese proverb)

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. (Don Henley)

Failure is never as frightening as regret. (Unknown source)

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive. (Robert Frost)

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. (Zig Ziglar)

You can't regret the life you didn't lead. (Unknown source)

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. (Desmond Tutu)

Far too many people are looking for the right person instead of trying to be the right person. (Gloria Steinem)

Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have the film. (Steven Wright)

If your dreams don't scare you they're not big enough. (Treme)

Wit is educated insolence. (Aristotle)

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. (Goethe)

Make sure that you don't die before doing something wonderful for humanity. (Maya Angelou)

When money becomes the answer you got a whole 'nother set of problems. (Treme)

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

You can't keep trouble from comin', but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on. (David Moore)

The test of courage comes when we're in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we're in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Joseph Brodsky)

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. (John Wooden)

The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media. (Daniel Boorstin)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in. (Unknown source)

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. (Joaquin Setanti)

Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. (Thomas Watson)

Be a fountain, not a drain. (Rex Hudler)

I'd rather work for someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. (Sam Donaldson)

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. (Orison Marden)

No one ever excused his way to success. (Louis Dedek)

To love means never to be afraid of the windstorms of life; should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. (Samuel Johnson)

Each problem has in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. (Joseph Sugarman)

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again. (James Agee)

Consensus is the negation of leadership. (Margaret Thatcher)

Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all. (Morris Mandel)

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. (Betsy Denison)

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