Inspirational quotes for October 2009
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To whom much is given, much is required.
(John F. Kennedy)
The wise learn things from their enemies.
(Aristophanes)
Think of the beauty still around us and be happy.
(Anne Frank)
Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.
(Terry Litwiller)
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
(Jimmy Carter)
This Republic was not established by cowards and coward will not preserve it.
(Elmer Davis)
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulders. But cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
(Marion Howard)
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
(James Russell Lowell)
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
(Elbert Hubbard)
Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage – the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to let never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
(Howard Cosell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
(Gandhi)
If you are afraid to die, you will not be able to live.
(James Brown)
Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
(Robert Frost)
A tooth inside another person’s mouth does not hurt.
(Russian proverb)
In putting off your tasks and ruing them, you waste more time than you would spend in doing them.
(Arthur Guiterman)
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The journey is the reward.
(Tao saying)
A minute of success pays for years of failure.
(Robert Browning)
You must learn from your past mistakes, but no lean on your past successes.
(Dennis Waitley)
The man who doesn’t practice what he preaches is no better than the rattlesnake, who warns and then strikes.
(Josh Billings)
The rule of life is to be found within yourself. Ask yourself constantly, “What is the right thing to do?” Beware of doing that which you are likely, sooner or later, to repent of having done.
(Confucius)
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
(Ingrid Bergman)
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them to the impossible.
(Arthur C. Clarke)
Don’t take up people’s time talking about the smartness of your children; they want to talk to you about the smartness of their children.
(Edgar Howe)
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
(George Eliot)
We have to learn to be our own best friends, because we fall too easily into the trap of
being our worst enemies.
(Roderick Thorp)
He who walks in another’s tracks leaves no footprints.
(Joan Brannon)
If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.
(Woody Allen)
Begin with the end in mind.
(Stephen Covey)
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. In investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
(Gordon Hinckly)
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
(Raymond Hull)
We make a vessel from a lump of clay. It is the space inside the vessel that makes it useful. Thus, while the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful.
(Tao saying)
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
(William Ward)
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
(David Brinkley)
Less me, more we.
(Unknown source)
The best way out is always through.
(Robert Frost)
Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.
(Helen Keller)
A friend is like a flower,
a rose to be exact,
Or maybe like a brand new gate
that never comes unlatched.
A friend is like an owl,
both beautiful and wise.
Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,
whose spirit never dies.
A friend is like a heart that goes
strong until the end.
Where would we be in this world
if we didn’t have a friend.
(Emma Gues)