INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MAY 2011 Sanderson Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (Robert Heinlein) Patience is a virtue, believe it if you can, It’s seldom found in woman and never in a man. (Ken Dooley) You might as well fall flat on your face as you lean over too far backward. (James Thurber) Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. (George S. Patton) I hold it more important to have the players’ confidence than their affection. (Vince Lombardi) Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. (Edward Eggleston) In the coldest February, as in every other month of the year, the best thing to hang on in this world is each other. (Linda Ellerbee) We may make mistakes, but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Existence was given to us for action. Our worth is determined by the deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. (E. L. Magoon) It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. (Barbara Kingsolver) In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. People come first. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two. (Lee Iacocca) It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. (William Corbett) Four things come not back: The spoken word; the sped arrow; time past; the neglected opportunity. (Ibn Omar) If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. (Unknown source) In matters of style, Swim with the currents. In matters of principle, Stand like a rock. (Thomas Jefferson) The president hears a hundred voices telling him he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him he is not. (Harry S Truman) If we are strong, our character will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. (John F. Kennedy) My success so far has only been won by absolute indifference to my future careers. (Theodore Roosevelt) He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help. (Abraham Lincoln) Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidders. (George Washington) Origins are of the greatest importance. We are almost reconciled to having a cold when we remember where we caught it. (Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach) Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can you produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggressors from abroad. (B. E. Hutchinson) The best cure for insomnia is a lot of sleep. (W. C. Fields) People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. (Peg Bracken) Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes. (Andrew Hamilton) If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. (P. J. O’Rourke) Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. (Unknown source) Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. (Ann Landers) You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed. I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. (Jane Addams) Preparation may be defined in three words: leave nothing undone. (George Allen) It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. (William Inge) The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn. (Laurence Peter) People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about practice, practice, practice. (Ted Williams). Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. (Doug Larson) Be cautious. Opportunity does the knocking for temptation too. (Unknown source) Flatters look like friends as wolves like dogs. (George Chapman) It has been said that beauty is a passport. But it’s not. It’s a visa and it runs out fast. (Julie Burchill) Too many people substitute effort for accomplishment. The reason for working is to get results. The person who gets the most results is working smarter and harder. Fatigue is not an indicator of success. (Zig Ziglar) I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked by people, “Do you think race and gender contributed to your success?” How the heck do I know? I can’t replace myself as a white male and see whether I would’ve gotten this far. (Condoleezza Rice).\ The only mystery about the cat is whey it ever decided to become a domestic animal. (Compton MacKenzie) A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than knowledge that is idle. (Kahlil Gibran) Every morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees it close. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. (Anne Frank) Love is not measured in how many times you touch each other but by how many times you reach each other. (Cathy Morancy) The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the problem you had last year. (John Foster Dulles) If you think you’re a winner, you’ll win, If you dare to step out, you’ll succeed, Believe in your heart, have a purpose to start, Aim to help fellow man in his need. Thoughts of faith must replace every doubt, Words of courage and you cannot fail, If you stumble and fall, rise and stand 10 feet tall, You determine the course that you sail. (Ken Dooley) Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. (Agnes Repplier) Some people drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. (Unknown source) Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. (African proverb) There are no losers in losing, only losers in not wanting to win. (Mario Trejo) Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. (African proverb)