INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JANUARY 2012
Sanderson
Quotes number 1-11 relate to the thought of a NEW YEAR.
(1) Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill
in us. (Hal Borland)
(2) The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the
clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months. (Edward Payson Powell)
(3) The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. (George William Curtis)
(4) The merry year is born like the bright berry from the naked thorn. (Hartley Coleridge)
(5) One resolution I have made, and try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. (John Burroughs)
(6) Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. (Oprah Winfrey)
(7) Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you do
do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)
(8) The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. (G.
K. Chesterton)
(9) Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better
man. (Benjamin Franklin)
(10) We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is
called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
(11) We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done,
cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives …
not looking for flaws, but for potential. (Ellen Goodman)
----Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Persistence prevails when all else fails. (Unknown source)
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Benjamin Franklin)
May the best of the past be the worst of your future. (Irish toast)
Faith is taking the first step even why you don’t see the whole staircase. (Martin Luther King)
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity. (Leo Tolstoy)
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd
George)
The lessons of the past provide the path to the future. (Source unknown)
Death isn’t the enemy. Living in constant fear of it is. (Norman Cousins)
The only place some folks make a name for themselves is on a tombstone. (Ken Alstad)
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. (Dwight Eisenhower)
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. (Robert E. Lee)
When I am gone what will you do?
Who will write and draw for you?
Someone smarter - someone new?
Someone better - maybe you?
(Shel Silverstein)
The present you’re constructing should look like the future you’re dreaming. (Alice Walker)
Those who are the slowest in making promises are often the most faithful in keeping them. (John Jennings)
If the world is cold, make it your business to build a fire. (Horace Traubel)
Three worth living - Return love for hate, include the excluded, know how to say, “I was wrong.” (Sydney
Harris)
A good resolution is like an old horse, often saddled, but rarely ridden. (Mexican proverb)
It is the job never started that takes longest to finish. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a
solution everybody can understand. (Colin Powell)
If something has never been in style it can never be out of style. (Nora Ephron)
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see
you. (Nora Ephron)
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always right to do right. (Unknown source)
A friend is one who takes you to lunch even if you’re not tax deductible. (William Mack)
Insist on yourself. Never imitate. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere. (La Rochefoucauld)
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, have less, love more,
and good things will be yours. (Swedish proverb)
In the business world as well as in life, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield. (Warren
Buffett)
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be
sorry that you retire. (Samuel Johnson)
Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don’t count on it. Today is ready
cash. Use it. (Edwin Bliss)
A man kin die from a good poker hand if it’s too good - like 5 aces. (Ken Alstad)
Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there. (Marcus Washling)
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. (George S. Patton)
Oratory leaves a smokescreen; eloquence, a vapor trail; sincerity, and endowment (Thomas Siler)
I wish I had known sooner that if you miss a child’s play or performance or sporting event, you will have
forgotten a year later the work emergency that caused you to miss it. But the child won’t have forgotten that
you weren’t there. (Laurel Cutler)
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies. (Leon Uris)
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it never tried to contact us. (Robert
Thorpe)
A problem shared is a problem halved. (Lee Child)
You’ve gotta quit renting space in your head to bozos who aren’t good enough to take out your trash. (James
Lee Burke)
Hummingbirds are great because they’re so busy getting the best out of life. (Louise Moore)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Robert Benchley)
If you’ve got enough courage you don’t need a reputation. (Gone With the Wind)
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end, he may disagree sharply, but
because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is that he is disagreeing with. (Kenneth Wells)
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what
happens when he says, “I’m a failure.” (Ken Dooley)
It you wisely invest in beauty, it will be with you all the days of your life. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it. (Lena Horne)
It is better to have a heart without words than it is to have words without a heart. (Gandhi)