INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES November 2015

Sanderson

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To write a love letter we must begin without knowing what we intend to say, and end without knowing what we have written. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. (Malcolm Forbes)

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one. (Jean Baptiste Moliere)

Whoever doesn't know the past must have little understanding of the present an no vision of the future. (Joseph Raymond)

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. (Carol Burnett)

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. (William Saroyan)

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it. (Frederick Leith-Ross)

Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. (Ginny Conway)

Those who reach their goals in life too easily have aimed too low. (H. Jackson Brown)

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. (Wilma Rudolph)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Unknown source)

If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary. (Jim Rohn)

Opportunities don't happen, you create them. (Chris Gosser)

When all is said and done, more is said than done. (Lou Holtz)

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength. (Marcus Aurelius)

Bygone troubles area pleasure to talk about. (Unknown source)

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside you. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The human species is composed of two distinct races; the people who borrow and the people who lend. (Edwin Land)

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. (Michael John Bobak)

When writers refer to themselves as "we" and to the reader as "you," it's two against one. (Judith Rascoe)

History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. (Leonard Levinson)

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

My own experience has taught me this: If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won or lasting happiness achieved. (Maurice Chevalier)

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. (George Bernard Shaw)

It's now what you look at that matters. It's what you see. (Unknown source)

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. (Socrates)

Life is as easy or a hard as you think it is. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. (Charles Kettering)

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman)

Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it. (Unknown source)

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. (Mother Teresa)

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle. (Randal Marlin)

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. (Lao Tzu)

Kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. (Barbara Kingsolver)

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant for us to stick it out. (Arthur Koestler)

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other. (Samuel Johnson)

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. (Jim Rohn)

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. (Michael Jordan)

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as rightfully possible today. (Charles Eliot)

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius)

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Helen Keller)

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. (Unknown source)

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are being punished by being governed by those who are dumber. (Plato)

I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits. (Pete Rose)

If God had intended us to fly, He would never have given us railways. (Michael Flanders)

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. (Mark Twain)

Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom. (Benjamin Franklin)

Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too. (Joseph Heller)

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. (Unknown source)

Washington is like a Roman arena. Gladiators do battle, and the spectators determine who survives by giving the appropriate signal, just as in the Coliseum. (Henry A. Kissinger)

The one who lacks the courage to start has already finished. (Unknown source)

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. (William James)

Good people are only half as good, and bad people are only half as bad as people regard them. (Elbert Hubbard)

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of aggressions without going to jail for it. (Heywood Hale Brown)

Many people take no care of their money till they come to the end of it, and others do the same with their time. (Johann von Goethe)

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which people send 150 lawyers, whose trade is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. (Thomas Jefferson)

It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes. (Mary Little)

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. (William James)

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. (William Hazlitt)

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise. (Homer)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)

Batman Forever almost lives up to its title. I thought it would never end. (Stanley Kauffman)

Travelers, there is no path. Paths are made by walking. (Antonio Machado)

I read within a poet's book

A word that starred the page;

"Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage!"

Yes, that is true, and something more:

You'll find, where'er you roam,

That marble floors and gilded walls

Can never make a home.

But every house where love abides,

and Friendship is a guest,

Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:

For there the heart can rest. (Henry Van Dyke)

There is one thing to be said for country clubs; they drain off a lot of people you wouldn't want to associate with anyway. (Joseph Prescott)

Decide what you want, and decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. (H.L. Hunt)

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. (Lenny Bruce)

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Another Herkimer silly quiz.

1. Who would you EXPECT to be lacking in self-confidence?

(A) Bill Grant (B) Lois Steem (C) Harry Martin

2. Who would you EXPECT to avoid large gatherings of people?

(A) Hank Jensen (B) Judy Collins (C) Thresa Crowd

3. Who would you EXPECT to run an automobile rental agency?

(A) Molly Thomas (B) Lisa Carr (C) Simon Brown

4. Who would you EXPECT to promote a healthy diet for everyone?

(A) Margaret Wilson (B) Jason Tiller (C) Eaton Wright

5. Who would you EXPECT to drive big trucks?

(A) Tim Palmer (B) Etienne Wheeler (C) Gus Malone

6. Who would you EXPECT to marry a much younger person?

(A) Sarah Jones (B) Gordon Weller (C) Robin D’Craydell

7. Who would you EXPECT to want to move to a bigger place?

(A) Nellie Mason (B) Joshua Siller (C) Juan Moorehouse

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