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Inspirational Quotes: Norman Vincent Peale, Lin Yutang

December 15th 2007   Quotes   0 comments

Inspirational quotes for 15th December 2007.

Lin Yutang: “A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”

Norman Vincent Peale: “The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly… which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties, he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

St. Francis de Sales: “How are we to be patient with our partner’s, our children’s, our friends’, and our neighbors’ faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? They who are fretted by their own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”


Inspirational Quotes: Francis Bacon, Douglas Adams

December 1st 2007   Quotes   2 comments

Inspirational quotes for 01st December 2007.

Francis Bacon: “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

Douglas Adams: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Margaret Thatcher: “I think [success] is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

Barbara Jordan: “Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”


Inspirational Quotes: Joseph Addison, Franklin Pierce Adams

September 22nd 2007   Quotes   0 comments

Inspirational quotes for 22nd September 2007.

Og Mandino: “To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.”

Franklin Pierce Adams: “While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don’t constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.”

Joseph Addison: “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”


Inspirational Quotes: Helen Keller, Karl Menninger

September 15th 2007   Quotes   0 comments

Inspirational quotes for 15th September 2007.

Karl Menninger: “Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.”

Seneca: “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.”

Helen Keller: “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

Charles Caleb Colton: “Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination - happiness; but few are going by the same road.”


Inspirational Quotes: Thomas Jefferson, George Patton

September 8th 2007   Quotes   0 comments

Inspirational quotes for 08th September 2007.

Logan Pearsall Smith: “There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.”

Robert Cushing: “The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

Thomas Jefferson: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

George Patton: “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”