INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JANUARY 2013
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When you fall into a river, you’re no longer a fisherman, you’re a swimmer. (Gene Hill)
Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. (John F. Kennedy)
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: That one often comes from a strong will, and the other
from a string won’t. (Ken Dooley)
Money talks but credit has an echo. (Bob Thaves)
Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve never tried. (Mae West)
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought
to be. (Sydney Harris)
When you’re rising you should also be lifting. (Unknown source)
Everyone is a fool for a t least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit. (Elbert
Hubbard)
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage
is demanded is to know where you stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
(William Faulkner)
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. (Sidney
Greenberg)
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? (Satchel Paige)
You know you are living in the 21st Century if you just tried to enter your password on the microwave. (Ken
Dooley)
The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it
yourself. (Benjamin Franklin)
When I was younger, I could remember everything, whether it happened or not. (Mark Twain)
You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. (James
Bilker)
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. (David Moore)
If you can’t explain it to a six year old you don’t understand it yourself. (Albert Einstein)
Any team can have a bad century. (Chicago Cubs T-shirt)
Don’t meet trouble halfway. It’s quite capable of making the entire journey. (Bob Edwards)
Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schroeder)
There’s one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. (Victor
Hugo)
A problem adequately stated is well on its’ way to being solved. (Buckminster Fuller)
It’s possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen. (Mamie Van Doren)
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. (Harper Lee)
It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one. (Unknown source)
Things I have learned…
-If you spread the peas out on your plate it looks like you ate more.
-Almost no quality product sells for a cheap price.
-You should never be too busy to say “Please” and “Thank you.”
-If chewing gum has been dropped on the sidewalk within the last 48 hours, my shoes will find it.
-Good advice is hard to give but even harder to follow.
-It doesn’t cost anything to be nice.
-It’s hard to argue with someone when they’re right.
-Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.
-A strong code of ethics is as reliable as a compass.
-You can tell a lot about a man by the happiness of his wife and the respect given him by his children.
(H. Jackson Brown)
Keep away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which
does not bow before children. (Kahlil Gibran)
A child becomes an adult with the realization that he or she has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
(Thomas Szasz)
Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions. (Edgar Cayce)
It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. (Addison Walker)
Better to be a strong person with a peak point, than to be a weak person with a strong point. A diamond with a
flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw. (William Boetcker)
Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet. (Roberta Lieberman)
Back of ninety-nine out of one hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing but the unwillingness
to do it. (William Feather)
Friendship increases by visiting friends, but by visiting seldom. (Benjamin Franklin)
If you’re going to do something you’ll feel sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. (Henny Youngman)
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. (Martin Luther King)
If only closed minds came with closed mouths. (David Moore)
The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Henry Kissinger)
Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you cry. (Carl Sandburg)
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. (Clyde Campbell)
A journey of a thousand miles starts with an argument over how to load the car. (Unknown source)
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. (African proverb)
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back
up but you don’t give up. (Chuck Yeager)
I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time. (Marilyn Monroe)
The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration
of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
(From article on grown and federal regulations in the National Review)
Some critics are like chimney sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests
above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of
cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to antagonize at length and be right too late.
(Marilyn Kennedy)
Forbidden fruits create many jams. (Source unknown)
A ship ought not be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. (Epictetus)
Your days on earth
are just so few
that there’s exactly
time to do
the things that don’t appeal to you.
(Piet Hein)
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. (Unknown source)
I believe every man is an island, but there are no limits to the bridges or harbors he can build. (Roy Cook)
Few things are more upsetting than getting a second opinion that you like less than the first. (James Siddell)
Democracy is the worst form of government except all others. (Winston Churchill)
No bird soars too high if it soars with its own wings. (William Blake)