INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES JUNE 2011
Sanderson
Be mindful even if your mind is full. (De LaVega)
March is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. (Doug Larson)
May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. (Irish toast)
Time and tide wait for no man - but time always stands still for a woman of 30. (Robert Frost)
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. (John Ciardi)
Friendship is like a book. It takes a few seconds to burn, but it takes years to write. (Bob Banner)
There is something much worse than losing your eye sight. It is losing your vision. (Bob Banner)
He who is carried on another’s back does not appreciate how far off the town it. (African proverb)
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does not that indicate something about your size? (Sydney J. Harris)
A detour is a straight road which turns on the charm. (Albert Brie)
Friendship isn’t a big thing. It’s a million little things. (Unknown source)
The trouble with giving advice is that people repay you. (Unknown source)
I prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. (Rudyard Kipling)
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. (George Orwell)
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. (Gil Steen)
They talk most who have the least to say. (Matthew Prior)
Do you know why a car’s windshield is so large and the rear view mirror is so small? Because our past is not as important as our future. So, look ahead and move one. (Bob Banner)
A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass. (Colin Powell)
The friend is a person who knows all about you - and still likes you. (Elbert Hubbard)
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. (Bob Hope)
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be falling down. (Arnold Glasow)
A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. (Bennett Cerf)
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
I’ve learned that no situation is so bad that losing your temper won’t make it worse. (Unknown source)
The only time you really live fully is from 30 to 60. The young are slaves to dreams; the old, servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. (Harvey Allen)
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. (Unknown source)
Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
(Rev. Billy Graham)
People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait. (Ann Landers)
Well done is better than well said. (Ben Franklin)
You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. (Lawrence Peter)
If you devote your life to revenge first dig two graves. (Confucius)
What we tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don’t like about ourselves. (William Wharton)
All things in life are temporary. If things are going well enjoy them, since they will not last forever. If things are going wrong don’t worry, they can’t last long either. (Bob Banner)
A mouse never trusts its luck to one hole only. (Plautus)
Whoever finds a faithful friend finds a treasure. (Jewish saying)
Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want. (Robert Allen)
A plagiarist is someone who improves on something that was poorly written. (Herbert Prochnow)
I haven’t asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older. (Konrad Adenauer)
The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.
(Edmund Bentley)
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. (John D. Rockerfeller)
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. (Brendan Hills)
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay awhile and leave footprints in our hearts. (Source unknown)
An airport is a place where you go to waste time waiting that you’re going to save flying. (Ken Dooley)
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. (Unknown source)
If you cry “Forward!” you must without fail make it plain what direction to go. Don’t you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite. (Anton Chekhov)
When you go far enough to the right you meet the same kind of idiots coming around from the left. (Clint Eastwood)
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings)
If we have our own “why” of life, we can bear almost any “how.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The only things we ever keep are what we give away. (Louis Ginsberg)
Temptation usually comes through a door that has deliberately been left open. (Arnold Glasow)
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. (Will Rogers)
A circle is round and has no end. That’s how long I want to be your friend. (Unknown source)
The opposite of pro is con,
That fact is clearly seen.
If progress means move forward,
Then what does congress mean.
(Nipsey Russell)
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. (John Steinbeck)
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. (Gilbert Chesterton)
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. (Frederick Faber)
God wants religious fruit, not religious nuts. (David Moore)
If you are getting better with age, does this mean you left yourself a lot of room for improvement? (Unknown source)
How come wrong numbers are never busy? (Unknown source)
Advice should always be consumed between two thick slices of doubt. (Walt Schmidt)
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. (David Moore)
Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong. (Gandhi)
The things you remember most aren’t things. (Unknown source)
He does not preach what he practices until he practices what he preaches. (Confucius)
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present. (Lao Tzu)
Failure is never as frightening as regret. (David Moore)
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good end; and to have the two as close together as possible. (George Burns)
I never make mistakes. I thought I did once but I was wrong. (Unknown source)
Victory has 100 feathers and defeat is an orphan. (John Kennedy)