<p>Inspirational quotes for January, 2009 HAPPY NEW YEAR.</p><p>Sanderson ======The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher)</p><p>Before strongly desiring anything, we should look into the happiness of its present owner. (Francios de la Rochefoucauld)</p><p>The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (John Cheney)</p><p>A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. (Francis Bacon)</p><p>Six essentials for success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom and charity. (Gerald Roque)</p><p>Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt. (Jan McKeithen)</p><p>In everything that ends well defined are the secret of durable success. (Victor Cousins)</p><p>The only disability in life is a bad attitude. (Scott Hamilton)</p><p>Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Victor Hugo)</p><p>Silence is a text easy to misread. (A.A. Attanasio)</p><p>People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done. (Cullen Hightower)</p><p>It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. (Mark Twain)</p><p>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)</p><p>Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the spectrum. (Charles Spencer)</p><p>Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position fails, your ego goes with it. (Colin Powell)</p><p>Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell. (Franklin Jones)</p><p>Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. (Goethe)</p><p>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)</p><p>Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi)</p><p>Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. (Dennis Waitley)</p><p>Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. (Brian Tracy)</p><p>The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. (Michael de Montaigne)</p><p>Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? (Robert Browning)</p><p>The significance of a man is not what he attains but in what he longs to attain. (Kahlil Gibran)</p><p>Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. (Aldous Huxley)</p><p>If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else. (Yogi Berra)</p><p>We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)</p><p>Life can be pulled by goals as surely as it can be pushed by drives. (Viktor Frankl)</p><p>If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of His burden. (Ashleigh Brilliant)</p><p>What’s the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? (Henry David Thoreau)</p><p>A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. (Samuel Goldwyn)</p><p>People who are quick to take offense will never run short of supply. (Unknown source)</p><p>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)</p><p>The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)</p><p>Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)</p><p>The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. (Sir William Osler)</p><p>Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens. (Cathy Guisewite)</p><p>Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. (Rosalind Russell)</p><p>I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place very day. (Albert Camus)</p><p>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)</p><p>Presence is more than just being there. (Malcolm Forbes)</p><p>When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. (Alan Payton)</p><p>We never repent of having eaten too little. (Thomas Jefferson)</p><p>Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. (Albert Schweitzer)</p><p>Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. (Henry David Thoreau)</p><p>We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Eduardo Galeano)</p><p>You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. (Fred Allen)</p><p>When we are very young we try to hide our poverty. When we grow older we brag about it. (Brooks Atkinson)</p><p>A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest person needs advice. (Ken Dooley)</p><p>A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. (Joshua Reynolds)</p><p>The biggest idiot can sometimes ask the questions the smartest man can’t answer. (Unknown source)</p><p>Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible. (Cesare Pavese)</p><p>There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. (Henry Ford)</p><p>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)</p><p>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)</p><p>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)</p><p>The woods are lovely dark and deep. But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost)</p>