INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES MARCH 2012
Sanderson
Nature and wisdom never are at strife. (Plutarch)
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves (Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Here is a test to find out if your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. (Richard Bach)
The more a man knows, the more he forgives. (Catherine the Great)
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. (Charles Dickens)
No man was ever wise by chance. (Seneca)
When everything is coming your way, you are in the wrong lane. (Unknown source)
Silence does not always mark wisdom. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. (Confucius)
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. (Latin Proverb)
A clear conscious is usually the sign of a bad memory. (Unknown source)
The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein)
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. (Thomas Huxley)
Years teach us more than books. (Berthold Auerbach)
Personally, I don’t think there is intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be different from this one? (Bob Monkhouse)
When you look up your family tree, just hope you are not the sap. (Rodney Dangerfield)
People think if must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. (Calvin)
On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows. (Edward Young)
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. (Menander)
Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. (Unknown source)
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives (Euripides)
I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button. (Sam Levenson)
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself. (Unknown source)
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do at the end. (Warren Buffet)
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say “I used everything you gave me.” (Erma Bombeck)
Wisdom is the reward you get for listening when you would have preferred to talk. (Doug Larson)
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and white notes together. (Richard Nixon)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. (Mother Teresa)
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. (Unknown source)
There is a simple test to find whether your mission on Earth if finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t. (Unknown source)
People who live in glass houses should always answer the doorbell. Your callers will know you’re in there. (Unknown source)
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum)
Have patience. In time, even grass becomes milk. (Unknown source)
If you think you are going to die in an elevator, be sure to push the UP button. (Unknown source0
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. (Unknown source)
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it. (Jonathan Winters)
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. (Thomas Fuller)
If the world is cold, make it your business to build a fire. (Horace Traubel)
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. (Miguel de Cervantes)
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it never tried to contact us. (Robert Thorpe)
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)
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches (English proverb)
If you try, you will never fail because you might find 1000 ways that don’t work. (Henry Ford)
Sometimes you earn more by doing the jobs that pay nothing. (Todd Ruthman)
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. (Herb Caen)
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. (Edmund Burk)
You open a book and find the pages are blank. You are handed a pencil so that you can put words on the blank pages. The title of the book is OPPORTUNITY. I suggest you title the first chapter TODAY. (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
Fear sometimes knocks on a door and faith sometimes opens it. When this happens, no one is there. (Old English Proverb)
People who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that a cow will back up to them. (Elbert Hubbard)
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and receive without forgetting. (Jeremy Fitzgerald)
Love is what’s left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed. (Cullen Hightower)
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. (William Blake)
The most important things in life aren’t things. (Unknown source)
If you carry on doing the same old thing, the same old thing will keep happening to you. To change your future, renew your mind and do something new. (William Crofton)
A leader who keeps his ear to the ground allows his rear end to become a target. (Angie Papadakis)
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. (Henry David Thoreau)
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes. (Doug Larson)
Manners are like the zero in arithmetic; they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of something else. (Freya Stark)
A person who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A person who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. (Malcolm S. Forbes)
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want if for things to remain the same but get better. (Sydney Harris)
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. (Kin Hubbard)
You cain’t never tell the way a pickle will squirt. (Ken Alstad)
Sometimes we forget that we will never find such people in our life again. (Dimitri Konstantindis)
Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything. (Walt Whitman)
You can’t hurt a tongue by speakin’ softly. (Ken Alstad)
There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting. (George Carlin)
Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. (Ken Alstad)
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know about us. (Thomas Paine)
If you have a hill to climb, waitin’ won’t make it smaller. (Ken Alstad)
There are three ways to get something done - do it yourself, hire someone to do it, or ask your kids NOT to do it. (Malcolm Kushner)
The man who boasts he has never made a mistake if often marred to a woman who did. (Ken Dooley)