For June 2010

Inspirational Quotes For June 2010

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."
-- Clint Eastwood

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
-- Dawna Markova

"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?"
-- Basil S. Walsh

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-- Samuel Beckett

"Don't be afraid of showing your feelings; be afraid of regretting it when you didn't."
-- Laura Springer

"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
-- Walter Anderson

"Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
-- Henry Van Dyke

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
-- St. Augustine

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
-- Jim Rohn

"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
-- Madame de Tencin

"The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole."
-- Anonymous

"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."
-- Brian Adams

"Building a better you is the first step to building a better America."
-- Zig Ziglar

"Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration asm conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
-- Ann Landers

"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes... they're just friends waiting to be made."
-- Dr. Jeffret Borenstein

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."
-- Titus Livius

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
-- Bill Cosby

"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."
-- Carol Channing

"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"
-- Marvin Phillips

"Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
-- Walt Whitman

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
-- Henry Ford

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
-- H. Jackson Browne

"You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
-- Scott Adams

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down."
-- Sean Stewart

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
-- Benjamin Jowett

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
-- Barbara Hall

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time."
-- Linda Shalaway

From Soul For Soul