For September 2010

Inspirational Quotes For September 2010

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."

-- Babe Ruth

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."

-- Frederico Fellini

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."

-- Channing Pollack

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."

-- Bill Watterson

"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears."

-- Unknown

"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

-- Doug Larson

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."

-- Mel Brooks

"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys."

-- Jim Rohn

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men."

-- Captain J. A. Hadfield

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

-- Samuel Johnson

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."

-- Gerry Spence

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to
somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self."

-- Whitney Young

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next
generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."

-- Charles Schulz

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

-- Oscar Wilde

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny."

-- Albert Ellis

"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash."

-- Rita Mae Brown

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas Alva Edison

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

-- Milton Berle

"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success."

-- Diana Rankin

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

-- William A. Ward

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."

-- Aristotle

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."

-- Anonymous

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."

-- Margaret Atwood

"Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach."

-- Benjamin Mays

"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails." 

-- Richard Rybolt

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

-- Dolly Parton

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can
borrow."

-- Woodrow Wilson

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

-- Henry David Thoreau