Inspirational quotes for January, 2009 HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Sanderson ======The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher)

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look into the happiness of its present owner. (Francios de la Rochefoucauld)

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John Cheney)

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)

Six essentials for success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom and charity. (Gerald Roque)

Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt. (Jan McKeithen)

In everything that ends well defined are the secret of durable success. (Victor Cousins)

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. (Scott Hamilton)

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Victor Hugo)

Silence is a text easy to misread. (A.A. Attanasio)

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done. (Cullen Hightower)

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner; so if one’s life is cold and bare, he can blame none but himself. (Louis L’Amour)

Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the spectrum. (Charles Spencer)

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position fails, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)

Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell. (Franklin Jones)

Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. (Goethe)

If things were really as we wanted them to be, people would still complain that they were no longer what they used to be. (Pierre Dac)

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi)

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. (Dennis Waitley)

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. (Brian Tracy)

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. (Michael de Montaigne)

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? (Robert Browning)

The significance of a man is not what he attains but in what he longs to attain. (Kahlil Gibran)

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. (Aldous Huxley)

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else. (Yogi Berra)

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Life can be pulled by goals as surely as it can be pushed by drives. (Viktor Frankl)

If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of His burden. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

What’s the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. (Samuel Goldwyn)

People who are quick to take offense will never run short of supply. (Unknown source)

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. (John F. Kennedy)

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)

The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. (Sir William Osler)

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. (Cathy Guisewite)

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. (Rosalind Russell)

I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place very day. (Albert Camus)

The trouble with America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has changed to advertising copy. (Mortimer Zuckerman)

Presence is more than just being there. (Malcolm Forbes)

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. (Alan Payton)

We never repent of having eaten too little. (Thomas Jefferson)

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. (Albert Schweitzer)

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. (Henry David Thoreau)

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Eduardo Galeano)

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. (Fred Allen)

When we are very young we try to hide our poverty. When we grow older we brag about it. (Brooks Atkinson)

A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest person needs advice. (Ken Dooley)

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. (Joshua Reynolds)

The biggest idiot can sometimes ask the questions the smartest man can’t answer. (Unknown source)

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible. (Cesare Pavese)

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. (Henry Ford)

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. (Seneca)

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. (Unknown source) Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark (David Ogilvy)

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. (Logan Persall Smith)

The woods are lovely dark and deep. But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost)