Inspirational quotes for January 2010

Sanderson

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

(Martin Luther King Jr.)

If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one there to hear it, how will the environmentalists react?

(Ken Dooley)

Nobody grows old by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

(Samuel Ullman)

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

(Igor Stravinsky)

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

(Alexis de Tocqueville)

If everybody’s thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.

(George Patton)

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

(Unknown source)

Mental floss prevents moral decay.

(Unknown source)

In memories we find comfort --- in time we find peace.

(Unknown source)

It’s the greatest of all mistakes to do noting because you can do only a little.

(Sydney Smith)

He was wise with a sense of humor and that’s an unbeatable combination.

(James Whitmore)

Butterflies count not months but moments and yet have enough time.

(Raymond Tagore)

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.

(Fred Allen)

The truth isn’t always dressed for the evening.

(Margaret Lewerth)

Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.

(James Brewer)

I don’t have a solution but I admire the problem.

(Source unknown)

He wasn’t afraid of losing and that freed him to enjoy the playing.

(Source unknown)

You don’t pick the times you grow up. They pick you.

(Pete Drexler)

Folks asked him why Jimmy didn’t play ball and he asked them why they didn’t take their kids to the library.
(Pete Drexler)

Reading fertilizes writing.

(Larry McMurtry)

I’ve had this dream since lunch and I’m not giving up on it.

(Source unknown)

To play it safe is not to play.

(Robert Altman)

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers but he poses the right questions.

(Claude Leve-Strauss)

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

(Gandhi)

Most official views are given by people who never have to act on them.

(Unknown source)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet.

(Unknown source)

I knew what I should say, which was nothing, and I kept on saying it.

(Unknown source)

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they ought to go.

(Rosalyn Carter)

There is something infinitely healing in the refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring comes after winter.

(Rachael Carson)

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

(Anna Quidnlen)

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

(Frank Scully)

Finish each day and be done with it. You’ve done what you could.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The world is nothing more than the little things you leave behind.

(From Grand Torino)

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

(Unknown source)

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

(Ronnie Shakes)

Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns.

(Unknown source)

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

(Steven Wright)

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise kids in a negative world.

(Zig Ziglar)

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

(Leo F. Buscaglia)

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

(Walt Schmidt)

Wit is educated insolence.

(Aristotle)

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just enough baggage.

(Charles Warner)

God doesn’t need us to sing his praises. He just wants us to be better people.

(Kirk Douglas)

Anything you’ve ever written would have been 25% better if someone had forced you to shorten it by 25%.

(Unknown source)

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

(Herb Caen)

Nothing is more dangerous to a person than success without achievement.

(Unknown source)

The average American has substituted clichés for thought.

(Unknown source)

I intend to live forever or die trying.

(Groucho Marx)

If he doesn’t do some serious soul searching he’s going to wind up being who he is for the rest of his life.

(Richard Price)

He wished he’s spent more time in school when he was in school.

(Richard Price)

Cynics know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

(Oscar Wilde)

A man’s reach should exceed his grasp.

(Source unknown)

Consider the lilies in the field…

Read in the backyard with

the sun on your face.

Learn to be happy.

And think of life as a

terminal illness, because

if you do you will live

it with joy and passion,

as it ought to be lived.

(Anna Quindlen)

Do not do what I do, rather take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.

(Mark Taylor)

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

(Mac McLeary)

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

(Confucius)

I’m an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

(Harold Wilson)

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper.

(Errol Flynn)

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

(Eden Phillpotts)

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

(Thomas Sowell)

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.

(John Ed Pearce)

There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast aside from a generous hand.

(Annie Dillard)

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

(Unknown source)

I ask you, what is the use of having your “cake” if you can’t eat it?

What exactly are you supposed to do with it?

Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

(T. Hary Eker)

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

(William Saroyan)

A sound mind in a sound body is a short by full description of a happy state in this world.

(John Locke)

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

(Unknown source)

The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

(Robert G. Ingersoll)

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

(Bernard M. Baruch)

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

(Horace)

Kind hearts are the gardens,

Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flower,

Kind deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds,

Fill it with sunshine

Kind words and kind deeds.

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)