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Inspirational quotes for August 2009

Sanderson

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

(Gandhi)

If you haven’t charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

(Bob Hope)

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

(Golda Meir)

Remember the three universal healers: Calamine lotion, warm oatmeal and hugs.

(H. Jackson Brown)

Man and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

(Abba Eban)

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady uniform insensible operation, like that of the air we breath in.

(Edmund Burke)

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

(Dr. Haim Ginott)

Don’t complain about getting old. The only alternative is worse.

(Ken Alstad)

Never mistake endurance for hospitality.

(Unknown source)

You can communicate best when you first listen.

(Catherine Pulsifer)

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

(Chinese proverb)

Smiling in infectious, you catch it like the flu.

When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

I walked around the corner and someone saw my grin

And when he smiled I realized that I’d passed in on to him.

I thought about that smile and then realized its worth,

A single smile, just like mine, could travel round the earth.

So if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected,

Let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

(Russell Conwell)

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

(Peter F. Drucker)

Good actions ennoble us; we are the sons of our own deeds.

(Jean Paul Richter)

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy with it.

(Groucho Marx)

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

(Elbert Hubbard)

Never kick a mule and turn your back.

(Ken Alstad)

Never gamble with a man who knows both sides of the cards.

(Ken Alstad)

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

(Bertrand Russell)

Be true to your teeth or your teeth will be false to you.

(Dental proverb)

Do not give advice that has not been seasoned by your own performance.

(Henry Haskins)

What you way can mean anything, but what you do means everything.

(Ashleigh Brilliant)

The best way to teach people is by telling a story.

(Kenneth Blanchard)

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

(Mark Twain)

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

(Tom Peters)

Kind words will unlock an iron door.

(Turkish Proverb)

A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life doing nothing.

(George Bernard Shaw)

You have not lived a perfect day unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

(Ruth Smeltzer)

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

(Jonathan Swift)

The optimist sees the rose and not the thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

(Kahlil Gibran)

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature and music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

(Henry Miller)

Improvement begins with I.

(Arnold H. Glasgow)

The person we call a specialist today was formerly called a person with a one-track mind.

(Endre Balough)

To cultivate kindness is a valuable port of the business of life.

(Samuel Johnson)

Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles.

(Samuel Stiles)

When a pious victor inquired sweetly, “Henry, have you made your peace with God?” Henry Thoreau replied, “We have never quarreled.”

(Unknown source)

Life is mostly froth and bubble.

Two things stand like stone –

Kindness in another’s trouble,

Courage in our own.

(Adam Goron)

Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.

(Rene Jasenek)

When we are wrong, make us easy to change.

When we are right, make us easy to live with.

(Alfred Gruenther)

The closing years of our lives are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

(Arthur Schopenhauer)

The best face lift is a smile.

(Ken Dooley)

Eating slowly helps to keep one slim; in other words, hast makes waist.

(A. H. Hallock)

There is never enough time unless you’re serving it.

(Malcolm Forbes)

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

(Lena Horne)

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

(Elsa Maxwell)

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

(Sam Walton)

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

(Vince Lombardi)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It isn’t the whistle that pulls the train.

(Vermont proverb)

The farther you run, the longer the way back.

(Ken Alstad)

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

(Dalai Lama)

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