INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FEBRUARY 2012

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We think that comfort and luxury are the chief requirements in life, when all we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Richard Morehead)

Teenagers are people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike. (Ken Dooley)

When here is great love there are always miracles. (Source unknown)

You must love people and use money, not love money and use people. (Tom Luu)

Two simple words are the key to kicking off conversations: “Tell me.” Most people ask closed questions that already contain the answer. This relates the other person to confirming or denying what you just said.

“Did you have fun at the dance?” “Yeah.” Did you enjoy the ballgame?” “It was OK.”

“Tell me” - as in, “Tell me about the dance” - gives people a hook on which to hang a conversation.

(Sam Horn)

No one ever listened himself out of a job. (Calvin Coolidge)

It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure. (Unknown source)

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. (Judy Garland)

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

(Colin Wilson)

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have of changing others. (Jacob Braude)

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. (Unknown source)

Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin)

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. (A. Bronson Alcott0

To be successful have your heart in your business and your business in your heart. (Thomas Watson)

Do not keep the alabaster box of love and friendship sealed until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words, while there ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier.

The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before you go. (George Childs)

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.

(Albert von Szent-Gyorgy)

It’s good to have a train of thought, providing you have a terminal. (Unknown source)

An eye for an eye makes everyone blind. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. (Hecato, Greek philosopher0

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Erma Bombeck)

When you go into court, you are putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. (Norm Crosby)

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade, they never learn the trade. (Peter Davison)

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. (Ann Landers)

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we should just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. (Earl Nightingale)

Use the talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best. (Henry Van Dyke)

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it’s like the difference between romantic love and an arranged marriage. (Terrence Rafferty)

As we look into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. (Bill Gates)

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. (Nelson Mandela)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Sir Francis Bacon)

Heed the small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. (Marquise de Deffand)

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison)

No one can make you angry, jealous, vengeful or greedy - unless you allow it. (Unknown source)

You can measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. (Robert Savage)

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been. (Unknown source)

In the final analysis, it is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. (Ann Landers)

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito. (Anita Roddick)

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. (Napoleon Hill)

Change is a door that can only be opened from the inside. (Terry Neil)

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. (Pogo)

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil - there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. (Frank Clark)

Flattery is counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. (Samuel Johnson)

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. (Tom Brokaw)

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of their tires. (Dorothy Parker)

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes)

This is a youth-oriented society and the joke is on them, because youth is a disease from which we all recover. (Dorothy Fuldheim)

Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out. (Unknown source)

Some people would not hesitate to drive up to the gates of heaven and honk. (John Holmes)

Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper. (Francis Bacon)

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick. (Bill Lemley)

Success is a ladder than cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket. (American proverb)

Trouble is part of your life. If you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. (Dinah Shore)

Searching is half the fun: Life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. (Jimmy Buffet)

A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future. (Robert Heinlein)

Opportunity man knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. (Unknown source)

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. (Johathan Winters)

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser)

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

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. (Thomas Fuller)

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