INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES February 2014
Sanderson
Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. (Jeremy Collier)
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, "Thank you" ?
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. (Josh
Billings)
It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. (Latin proverb)
Careful thinking and hard work will solve nearly all your problems. Try and see for yourself. (Ullery)
Nature and wisdom never are at strife. (Plutarch)
Climb up some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you will find it there. (Robb
Sagendorph)
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. (William Penn)
Hear the meaning of the word. (William Shakesphere)
You must look into other people as well as at them. (Lord Chesterfield)
Kind words are the music of the world. (F. W. Faber)
The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, a woman after the birth of a child.
(Irish proverb)
There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. (Juan Montalvo)
I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity, to a time when a brotherhood award should be as
ridiculous as an award for getting up in the morning. (Daniel Mich)
Because you're able to do it and because you have a right to do it doesn't mean it's right to do it. (Dr. Laura
Schlessinger)
I used to want the words, "She tried," on my tombstone. Now I want, "She did it." (Katherine Durham)
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. (Andrew Mason)
Knowledge of another culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more
lovingly, our own. (Margaret Mead)
Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future. We
make discoveries about ourselves. (Gail Buckley)
How come we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? (Unknown source)
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he
becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself he becomes wise. (Alden Nowlan)
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be
taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. (Paul Mowrer)
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. (Carl Sagan)
Arguing with a fool proves there are two. (Doris M. Smith)
He who is carried on another's back does not appreciate how far off the town is. (African proverb)
If you play golf and bridge as though they were games, you're about as well adjusted as you are ever going to
be. (Unknown source)
Very few people know how to be happy. That's why you see so many books telling them how to be happy.
The other day I saw a book, "How to be Happy Without Money." The book cost $15. It goes to show you - if
you've got no money, you can't even find out how to be happy without it." (Jackie Mason)
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." (Menander)
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than it does to tolerate them. (J. Petit Senn)
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. (Lord Chesterfield)
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. (Sophocles)
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you," that would suffice. (Meister Echart)
Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go
away. (William Davis)
Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. (Ann
Landers)
Be not afraid of moving slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese proverb)
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance. (Bern Williams)
Attitude is the mind's paintbrush - it can color any situation. (Loring Forcier)
A great many people in this country are worried about law and order. And a great many people are worried
about justice. But one thing is certain: You cannot have either until you have both. (Ramsey Clark)
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. (G. K. Chesterton)
If it was going to be easy to raise kids, it never would have started with something called labor. (Ken
Dooley)
People go through four stages before any revolutionary development:
1. It's nonsense; don't waste my time.
2. It's interesting, but not important.
3. I always said it was a good idea.
4. I thought of it first.
(Arthur Clarke)
When I was younger I could remember everything whether it happened or not. (Mark Twain)
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee)
Make your mark in the world as if there were no erasers. (Jean Jones)
Conscience is a small, still voice that makes minority reports. (Franklin Adams)
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. (Bill Eardley)
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. (Jeremy Fitzgerald)
Enthusiasm is the great hill climber. (Elbert Hubbard)
Learn how to think, now what to think. (David Moore)
The genius of communication is the ability to be both totally honest and totally kind at the same time. (John
Powell)
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de SaintExupery)
Most fish would be bigger if the fisherman's arms were longer. (Unknown source)
If you look like your passport photo, then in all probability you need the journey. (Earl Wilson)
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful. They are sunshine, food and medicine to the
soul. (Luther Burbank)
Empty wagons always make the greatest rattle. (Unknown source)
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. (Arnold Glasow)
A closed mouth gathers no feet. (Unknown source)
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield)
It would be nice if the poor got even half the money that is spend studying them. (Bill Vaughn)+
There are so many people who can figure costs and so few who can measure values. (John Jennings)
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. (Joe Murray)
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish proverb)
Quit cryin' and start tryin'! (Bill Withers)
It's nice to have a manageable problem. It gives one the illusion of competence. (Robert Parker)
Live for yourself and you live in vain. Live for others and you live again. (Bob Marley)
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. (Ralph Hodgson)
The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to fear the lightening. (Charles Rollin)
Few of us are like the Mona Lisa. She keeps smiling even when her back is to the wall. (Lewis Gizzard)
If you don't think cooperation is necessary, watch what happens to a wagon when a wheel comes off. (Will
Rogers)
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous (Groucho Marx)
The world's shortest sermon - KEEP RIGHT. (Road sign)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tzu)