For August 2010

Inspirational Quotes For August 2010

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
-- Joe Moore

"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

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga."
-- David Ogilvy

"There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing."
-- Louis Armstrong

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."
-- David M. Burns

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
-- Franz Kafka

"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he ever knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant."
-- Richard Nixon

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
-- William James

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."
-- John Erskine

"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
-- Napoleon Hill

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
-- Elvis Presley

"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together."
-- Yo-Yo Ma

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Make your life a mission --- not an intermission."
-- Arnold Glasgow

"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."
-- Don Cornelius

"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
-- Malcolm Forbes

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-- Walter Bagehot

"A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires."
-- Unknown

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people."
-- Zig Ziglar

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-- Charles Schulz

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
-- Benjamin Franklin.

"I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation."
-- Robert Brault

"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin."
-- Allan Pinkerton

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby."
-- Ruth Renkel

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
-- Lao-Tzu

"I want to put a ding in the universe."
-- Steve Jobs

"A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done."
-- Cardinal Newman

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
-- James Allen

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- Albert Einstein

From Dream For Dreamer