INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES APRIL 2013

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I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches. (Thomas Jefferson)

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. (Florence Nightingale)

Advice is like cooking – you should try it first before you feed it to others. (Herbert Browne)

If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a person with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. (Marc Chagall)

Celebrate what you want to see more of. (Tom Peters)

To know what is right and not do it is as bad as doing wrong. (Ken Dooley)

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

Waldo Emerson)

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. (Nancy Donahue)

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of faraway places. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. (Carl Burns)

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. (Carlos Castaneda)

The most destructive criticism is indifference. (Unknown source)

Obstacles are things people see when they take their eye of the goal. (Robert Thorpe)

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. (Erich Segal)

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. (Mark Twain)

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. (Charles Kettering)

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand you can improve. It may make you wealthy, but it is more likely that it will make you happy. (George Adams)

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. (Victor Hugo)

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain. (Charles Newcomb)

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. (Doug Larson)

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. (Albert Camus)

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views … which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. (Dr. Who)

I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. (Mike Todd)

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a few people can swallow it. (Emily Post)

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. (Mortimer Zuckerman)

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. (Savielly Tartakover)

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new ones. (Raymond Murphy)

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: It is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. (Salvador Dali)

The beauty of mother nature is her ability to make complex things seem simple.” (Louis Samuels, MD)

Make one person happy each day, and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least. (Charles Willey)

The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. (Unknown source)

The pioneers cleared the forest from Jamestown to the Mississippi with fewer tools than are stored in the typical modern garage. (Dwaine Laws)

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. (G. K.Chesterton)

The people who follow the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The people who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been. (Alan Ashley-Pitt)

Do you know what poverty is? It is never have a big thought or a generous impulse. (Jerome Fleishman)

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided "No." (Charles Simmons)

Experience is very valuable. It keeps a person who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time. (Brook Benton)

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one's silver and the other is gold. (Unknown source)

What the future holds for us depends on what we hold for the future. Hard working todays make high-winning tomorrows. (William Holler)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

The knowledge that a secret exists is half of the secret. (Unknown source)

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, and make footprints on our hears, and we are never, ever the same. (Susan Wilbur)

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. (Will Durant)

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. (John Burroughs)

A necessity is almost any luxury you see in the home of a neighbor. (Unknown source)

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Ken Dooley)

You always pass failure on the way to success. (Mickey Rooney)

October, where the leaves take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. (Archibald MacLeish)

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. (William Hoad)

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. (P. L. Travers)

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

He was one of the greatest scientists the world has ever known, yet if I had to convey the essence of Albert Einstein in a single world, I would choose simplicity. (Banesh Hoffman)

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. (Herbert Hoover)

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Enthusiasm is a great hill climber. (Elbert Hubbard)

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. (Robert Heinlein)

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Cervantes)

A FEW MORE "SAVVY SAYIN'S" (Ken Alstad)

A drunken tongue tells what's on a sober mind.

It don't take long for a gamblin' cowboy to put money into circulation.

If you have a hill to climb, waitin' won't make it smaller.

A fool kin ask more questions in an hour than 10 savvy men kin answer in a year.

A good friend is one who tells you your faults in private.

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

Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

You'll sure get out-pointed if you pick a fight with a porcupine.

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