Hi good folks…
September’s quotes… for those who like them.
Sanderson
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES (SEPT. 2008)
We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.
(Walker Percy)
Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax deductible or not.
(Dan Bennett)
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
(Unknown source)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
(Helen Keller)
It is our attitude toward life that will determine life’s attitude toward us.
(Unknown source)
Every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.
(Tom Stoppard)
To keep your character intact, you cannot stoop to underhanded acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next
time.
(Katherine Hepburn)
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
(Richard Bach)
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
(Peter Drucker)
You aren’t wealthy until you have something money can’t buy.
(Ken Dooley)
Do thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.
(Jeff Keller)
I’ve lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times … most of which never happened.
(Mark Twain)
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you don’t wait until he has struck before you crush him.
(Franklin D. Roosevelt)
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a
place where history comes to life.
(Norman Cousins)
What is more mortifying than to feel that you missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
(Unknown source)
Tenderness is passion in repose.
(Unknown source)
You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.
(Frank Clark)
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
(Robert Babson)
The perfect journey is circular - the joy of departure and the joy of return.
(Dino Basili)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free
will.
(Jawaharal Nehru)
Just when you think you graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.
(Mary Waldrip)
Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.
(James Brewer)
The point of tact is not sharp.
(Colleen Carney)
To err is human;
To refrain from laughing, humane.
(Lane Olinghouse)
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
(Joyce Brothers)
Every conviction was a whim at birth.
(Heywood Broun)
Silence is still a marvelous language that has few initiates.
(Roger Duhamel)
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
(Albert Einstein)
Habits are like supervisors that you don’t notice.
(Hannes Messemer)
Energy is beauty - a Ferrari with an empty tank doesn’t run.
(Elsa Peretti)
When we can’t get away for a vacation, we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person
that smiles.
(Susie Spanos)
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstandings,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
(Albert Schweitzer)
Throughout history, the most common debilitating human ailment has been cold feet.
(Robert Venditto)
You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
(Margaret Young)
In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.
(Charles Revson)
You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you are doing is work or play.
(Warren Beatty)
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
(Italian proverb)
We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.
(Earl of Beaconsfield)
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
(Jean Fountaine)
You don’t get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what’s eating you.
(Vicki Baum)
You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the
way.
(Walter Hagen)
We ought to think we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without
the others, without the tree.
(Pable Casals)
History doesn’t pass the dishes again.
(Louis Celine)
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful
things has more.
(Charlotte Gilman)
I never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it’s dangerous - but when you start thinking of the
danger, you might as well give up.
(Olga Korbut)
A big disappointment in life is the discovery that the person who writes the finance company ads isn’t the
one who makes the loans.
(Unknown source)
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the power to turn a life around.
(Leo Buscaglia)
Better shun the bait rather than struggle in the snare.
(John Dryden)
“The day, water, sun, moon night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
(Plato)
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”
(Ken Dooley)
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
(Elbert Hubbard)
Feelings are everywhere - be gentile.
(Eric Hoffer)
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cure for depression.
(Dodie Smith)
I learned that there are two ways I could live my life: follow my dreams or doing something else. Dreams
aren’t a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I am rehearsing my future.
(David Copperfield)
Hope is love’s happiness, but not its life.
(Letitia Landon)
Retirement should be based on the tread, not the mileage.
(Allen Ludden)
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
(Sir Thomas Brown)
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most
difficult.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can
find our greatest pleasure.
(Kal Menninger)
Character consists on what you do on the third and fourth tries.
(James Michener)
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
(William Feather)
The unexamined life is not worth living.
(Socrates)
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in
the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
(Seneca, 7BC - 65AD)