INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES AUGUST 2011

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The bend is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn. (Mary Worth)

To see things in the seed, that is genius. (Lao Tzu)

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. (Woodrow Wilson)

April is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” (Robin Williams)

Opportunities always look bigger going then coming. (John Joseph)

Courage does not always roar like a lion. Sometimes it is a quite voice at the end of the day that says, “I will try again tomorrow.” (Peter Sheridan)

In our life there is a single color, as of an artist’s Palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. (Marc Chagall)

The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destinations. (Unknown source)

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow. (James Stephens)

Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor. (Unknown source)

We may not return the affection of those who like us but we always respect their good judgment. (Libbie Fudim)

The three hardest things in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, “I was wrong.” (Sydney J. Harris)

The ultimate test of a man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. (Gaylord Nelson)

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. (J. M. Power)

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. (Sandra Carey)

What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative accessible and acceptable to oneself. (Stanley Kauffmann)

Talk doesn’t cook rice. (Chinese proverb)

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. (Vincent van Gogh)

The secret of giving advice is to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in anything to set people straight. (Hannah Smith)

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. (Doug Larson)

Of all band things by which

mankind are cursed,

Their own bad tempers surely

are the worst. (Richard Cumberland)

A belief is not true because it is useful. (Henri Ariel)

Distance tests a horse’s strength. Time reveals a man’s character. (Unknown source)

The main dangers in life are the people who want to change everything … or nothing. (Lady Astor)

Don’t stand shivering on the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over. (Sam Slick)

There is no way to make people like change. You can only make them feel less threatened by it. (Frederick Hayes)

A half-truth is a whole lie. (Unknown source)

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. (Shiquenori Kameoki)

Going through the necessary soul-searching of deciding whether to fight a battle or to run away from it is far more difficult than the battle itself. (Richard M. Nixon)

To an accountant, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall. (Hilary Alexander)

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances. (Don Herold)

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions. (Anthony Jay)

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. (Groucho Marx)

Never let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope. (Newark Mayor Cory Brown)

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who come from the best family. (Andrew Hamilton)

A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget. (Unknown source)

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. (Harriet Braiker)

Here’s to our fisherman bold,

Here’s to the fish he caught,

Here’s to the one that got away,

And here’s to the ones be bought. (Unknown source)

Whoever finds a faithful friend finds a treasure. (Jewish saying)

Be different. If you don’t have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage. (Ed Koch)

As a general rule, I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer. (Abraham Lincoln)

With clothes the new are the best, with friends the old are the best. (Unknown source)

Though much is taken, much abides, and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:

One equal temper of heroic hearts

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will,

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. (Tennyson’s Ulysses)

Worry is a misuse of imagination. (Dan Zadra)

I don’t want nobody to give me nothing - open the door, I’ll get it myself. (James Brown)

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. (Juan Montalvo)

In the end we don’t remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King)

The person who never makes mistakes always takes orders from one who does. (John Dewey)

If you don’t want to get tackled, don’t carry the ball. (Unknown source)

There are times when silence has the loudest voice. (Leroy Brouwlon)

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. (African Proverb)

Just because you are in the driver’s seat doesn’t mean you have to run over people. (Randy Pausch)

We can’t change the cards we’re dealt, just how we play them. (Randy Pausch)

Age teachings you to appreciate characters as well as character. (Gerald Halsam)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)

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