INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES October 2013
Sanderson
Keep steadily before you the fact that true success depends at last upon yourself. (Theodore T. Hunger)
Blessed are those who have nothing to say and can't be persuaded to say it. (James Russell Lowell)
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain)
Character, like a kettle, once mended, always requires repairs. (James Silver)
People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. (Apple Computers)
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no
matter what happens. (Harper Lee)
You must be the change you want to see in the world. (Gandhi)
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me it
would defeat the purpose. (George Carlin)
If you don't scale the mountain, you won't see the view. (Unknown source)
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted
to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why
I succeed. (Michael Jordan)
God doesn't require that you succeed; He only requires that you try. (Mother Teresa)
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. (E. Joseph
Cossman)
Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open. (Unknown source)
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. (Henry Ford)
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. (Roy Goodman)
It is better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right. (Seymour Katz)
The more I want something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach)
When people boast about what they'll do tomorrow, we should try to find out what they did yesterday. (John
Jennings)
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. (Margo Kaufman)
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)
The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people
will begin to think like machines. (John Manning)
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. (Carol
Channing)
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small slabs. (Irene Sutcliffe)
The fence that makes good neighbors needs a gate to make good friends. (Unknown source)
We see things not as they are, but as we are. (H. M. Tomlinson)
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching some do something you said couldn't be done. (B. C. Forbes)
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. (Napoleon Hill)
Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming. (Unknown source)
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. (Steve Jobs)
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. (Babe Ruth)
Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships.
(Jeffrey Timmons)
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
(Fulton J. Sheehan)
In the race for quality, there is no finish. (Unknown source)
There are times when silence is the loudest voice. (Leroy Brownlow)
Seven deadly sins, according to Mohandas K. Gandhi:
1. Wealth without work.
2. Pleasure without conscience.
4. Business without morality.
5. Science without humanity.
7. Politics without principle.
3. Knowledge without character.
6. Worship without sacrifice.
You could make your work so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's. (Jeanne Laskas)
The trouble with talking too fast is that you may say something you haven't thought of yet. (Ann Landers)
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the
strategy. (Norman Schwartzkopf)
One of the best things about not saying anything is that it can't be repeated. (Suzan Weiner)
He is foolish to blame the sea who is shipwrecked twice. (Publilius Syrus)
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. (John
Nuveen)
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable element in another
person's life. (Joyce Brothers)
"Two things kept me from becoming a professional athlete," a man confessed to a friend. "When I played
baseball I could never hit a curveball. And when I played golf, I could." (Robert Orben)
The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a non-learner.
(Benjamin Barber)
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter, hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred
times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I
know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. (Ken Dooley)
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. (Henry van Dyke)
Your purpose explains what you are doing in life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your
goals enable you to realize your vision. (Bob Proctor)
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Theodore
Rubin)
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were
impossible. (Doug Larson)
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. (William Walton)
Never judge a book by its movie. (J. W. Eagan)
When I am having trouble with someone, it's a sure sign that person is exactly the gift I am needing in my life.
Sometimes it takes me years to write a thank-you note, though. (Unknown source)
Live up to you potential instead of imitating someone else's. (Martha Burgess)
Children won' often misquote you;
But at times you will find instead
They just repeat ...almost word for word
What you shouldn't have said.
(Nora Thompson)
The secret of happiness is to count up your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. (Jill Kraverts)
I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process. (Oprah Winfrey)
Who knows, somewhere out there in the audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my
footsteps and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well. (Barbara Bush)
The person who never makes a mistakes always takes orders from one who does. (John Dewey)
If you turn on your set and see nothing is happening, do not call a serviceman: You have tuned in the U.S.
Senate. (David Brinkley)
Too err is human ,but to really foul things up requires a computer. (Unknown source)
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. (Mary
Engelbreit)
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. (Aristotle)
"What makes you so wise?" a young attorney asked a famous judge.
"I've got very good judgment," replied the older man. "It comes from years of experience."
"And your experience?"asked the attorney.
"That," answered the judge, "comes from years of poor judgment." (Unknown source)
The best ability is responsibility. Nothing happens until someone steps forward and says, "You can count on
me." (John Maxwell)
The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it. (L. W. Lynett)
Living in a fool's paradise is great fun until the rent comes due. (Leo Burnett)
The only person who cannot be helped in that person who blames others. (Carl Rogers)