INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES (Late July 08) SPECIAL THANKS TO JASON MOLESKY FOR HOSTING THIS PAGE SITE. When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) As with liberty, the price of leanness is eternal vigilance. (Gene Brown) The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. (Albert Einstein) One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. (Sam Levenson) Pleasant memories must be arranged for in advance. (Unknown source) Knowing what the right thing to do is usually easy, but consistently doing the right thing in the face of adversity is something else. That is the true test of character. (Judith Molloy) Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you. (John F. Kennedy) You give but little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. (Kahlil Gibran) When a person eats his words, that’s recycling. (Frank Clark) When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s, when you’re healed. (Jane Fonda) It’s easy to hold an opinion but hard work to actually know what one is talking about. (Paul Ford) To succeed, you must first improve; to improve, you must first practice; to practice, you must first learn; to learn, you must first fail. (Wesley Woo) Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence. (Henry Ford II) Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. (Dennis P. Kimbro) Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence. (Margaret Halsey) Beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most. (Unknown source)
The impossible is often the untried. (Jim Goodwin) Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. (Martin Buxbaum) What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. (Albert Pine) The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. (Shirley MacLaine) I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost) My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. (Clarence Kelland) If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would mean something to do with a shortage of flowers. (Doug Larson) People travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better places. (Willa Cather) Discipline yourself and others won’t need to. (Unknown source) A lie has speed but truth has endurance. (Edgar Mohn) These things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation. (The Talmud) Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. (Carl Sandburg) Happiness is not something you postpone for the future. It is something you design for the present. (Jim Rohn) One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what’s right about it and build on that. (Norman Vincent Peale) Forever is a long time, but not as long as it was yesterday. (Dennis H’Orgnies) There must be something to acupuncture - after all, you never see any sick porcupines. (Bob Goddard) Before criticizing you wife’s faults, remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband. (Unknown source)
Never try to out stubborn a cat. (Robert Heinlein) The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. (Christopher Morley) A smile is the whisper of a laugh, A grin always comes before a chuckle. As the thought precedes the deed And the lightening the thunder, A smile is the whisper of a laugh. (Ken Dooley) It takes a long time to grow an old friend. (John Leonard) A real patriot is the person who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. (Bill Vaughn) Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them. (Chaim Weizmann) How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. (David Norris) Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach) If we did all the things that we are most capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. (Thomas Edison) None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. (Unknown source) America is a tune. It must be sung together. (Gerald Lee) Some people strengthen the society just be being the kind of people they are. (John Gardner)
