Inspirations for Fri., Dec. 30, 2011

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald, 1917-1996, Jazz Singer

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- George P. Burnham
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There should be a solemn pause before we rush to judgment.
- Thomas Erskine

Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 29, 2011

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

- Mary Manin Morrissey, Speaker and Author

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Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build up their philosophy of life.
- A. J. Cronin
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Communication and reconciliation introduce harmony into another's life by sensing and honoring the need to be cared for and understood.
- Howard Thurman

Inspirations for Wed., Dec. 28, 2011

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
- Edward Thorndike
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Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-  Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

Christmas Eve & Christmas 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Dec. 27, 2011

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity. 
- Ruby Dee
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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
- John Morley
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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
-- F. Hawes

Christmas Dinner with The Moore Family

Inspirations for Mon., Dec. 26, 2011

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

- Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Author of The Power of Positive Thinking

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities.

- Maya Angelou

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

- Leon Suenens, 1904-1996, Clergyman

Inspirations for Fri., Dec. 23, 2011

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, 1908-1988, Novelist

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Honest criticism is the highest praise. 

- Author unknown

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Two important things to teach a child: to do and to do without. 

- Marcelene Cox

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Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 22, 2011

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

- Les Brown, Speaker

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer
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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
-  Charles Darwin

Inspirations for Wed., Dec. 21, 2011

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

- Esther Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, 1918-2002, Syndicated Advice Columnist

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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. 

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

- J. Sidlow Baxter, 1903-1999, Author and Theologian

Inspirations for Tue., Dec. 20, 2011

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. 
- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
-- James Buckham
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

Inspirations for Mon., Dec. 19, 2011

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I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
- Og Mandino
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

- Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Psychiatrist

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So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

- Price Pritchett, Author of You2

Inspirations for Fri., Dec. 16, 2011

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

- Diana Nyad, Author, Journalist and World Record Long-Distance Swimmer

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Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you when things go wrong. 

- Bralek's rule for success

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I will fight my battle and I will feel pain, and I will have no loss and I will remain, and I will stand proud and I will be strong, and I will shed my light and I will sing my song, and I will win and I will cry, and I will spread my wings and I will fly.

- Keith Perks, Cancer Survivor

Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 15, 2011

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.    
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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If you have left some important thing in your life undone, go back and finish the job, and the future will open up for you. Every unfinished task, big or small, weighs on your enthusiasm to start another job.
- Elwin Valley
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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, or take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.
- Elizabeth Berg

Inspiration, Wed., Dec. 14, 2011

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Inspirations, Tue., Dec. 13, 2011

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. 

- Belva Davis

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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.

- Dolly Parton, Singer/Songwriter

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, Writer

Inspirations for Dec. 12, 2011

We've got to decide if it's going to be this generation or never. 
- Daisy Bates
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Money is a “way of keeping score in life,” says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You can do that with a small amount of money...or not do it with a fortune.
-- Bill Bonner, financial journalist
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In the end the great truth will have been learned, that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, or rather that the effort is the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. 
- Benjamin Cardozo

CAAO Youth Innovation Forum - Dec. 12, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 8, 2011

The best inheritance you can leave your kids is an example of how to live a full and meaningful life.
-- Dan Zadra
Try to pursue excellence with no excuses.
- Bill Campbell
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The choices I make today will determine the rest of my life!

- Ginny Dye, Founder of The Ultimate Life Company

Inspirations for Wed., Dec. 7, 2011

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
-- Tom Morris
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. 
- Elbert Hubbard
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles
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Inspirations for Tue., Dec. 6, 2011

If success is not on your own terms - if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your own heart - it is no success at all.
- Anna Quindlen
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There's magic in fighting battles beyond endurance.
- Paul Haggis Million Dollar Baby
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When you reach the end of your life, do you want to be one of the people who are glad they did, or one of the people who wish they had?
- Author Unknown to Me

Inspirations for Mon., Dec. 5, 2011

Your imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
- B.J. Marshall
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Never hesitate to ask for help. No one succeeds alone.
- Micheline Bouchard

Inspirations for Fri., Dec. 2, 2011

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

- Harriet Tubman, 1822-1913, Abolitionist

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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable.

-  Robert G. Ingersoll

Inspirations for Thur., Dec. 1, 2011

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

- Eileen Caddy, Author

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In every moment, the quality of your life is on the line. In each, you are either fully alive or relatively dead.
- Dan Millman
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
- Will Rogers

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 30, 2011

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Author and Philosopher

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My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

- Susan Powter, Author

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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

- Matthew Arnold

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 29, 2011

I have never been a millionaire, but I have enjoyed a great meal, a crackling fire, a glorious sunset, a walk with a friend, a hug from a child, a cup of soup, a kiss behind the ear. There are plenty of life's tiny delights for all of us.
- Jack Anthony
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
- John Burroughs
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength. It has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries; it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
- Li Ka-Shing

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 28, 2011

"We WAIT for Thanksgiving to GIVE THANKS.  We WAIT for Christmas to GIVE GIFTS.  We WAIT for Valentine's Day to SHOW LOVE.  And meanwhile the clock ticks."

Above paraphrased from comments by Joel Osteen.

And the question is, Why are we waiting?

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 25, 2011

It is now long ago that I resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

-Booker T. Washington, 1856-1915, Educator and Author

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The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing. 

-John Harvey Kellogg

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The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work.

-Pat Clifford

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 24, 2011

The future is open; we decide what's in it.

-Wolfgang Sonnenburg - Founder of Winspiration Day

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

-Thomas Szasz - Psychiatrist and Author

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Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with them.
-- Unknown

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 23, 2011

The greatest gift you will ever receive is the gift of loving and believing in yourself. Guard this gift with your life. It is the only thing that will ever truly be yours.
-Tiffany Loren Rowe
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There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-Kurt Hahn
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If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

-Norman Vincent Peale - 1898-1993, Minister and Author

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 22, 2011

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

- Hannah Arendt - 1906-1975, Political Theorist

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Credibility is about your past, your present, and also your future. If you have aspirations about getting promoted, you have to think forward five years and start projecting and presenting that persona.

- Karen Berg

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If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives.
-- Mike Zimmerman

Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?
-- Parker Palmer
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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- Susan B. Anthony
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

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- Helen Keller - 1880-1968, Author and Lecturer


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Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 18, 2011

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
-- William Shakespeare   
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Watch your thoughts; they lead to attitudes.
Watch your attitudes; they lead to words.
Watch your words; they lead to actions.
Watch your actions; they lead to habits.
Watch your habits; they form your character.
Watch your character; it determines your destiny.
- Author Unknown 
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Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do. 
- Brian Tracy

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 17, 2011

Be able to overcome the adversity and obstacles that will come along. You've got to get up one more time than you fall down. 
- Homer Drew
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
- Bob Dylan
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

- Richard Bach - Author
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Inspirations, Wed., Nov. 16, 2011

Knowledge is only an instrument in the hand of wisdom. 

Daniel Payne

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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. 

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan
1934-1996, Astrophysicist and Author

Inspirations, Tue., Nov. 15, 2011

You all have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations in your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don't think you cannot. Think you can. 


Darwin P.Kingsley


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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

Mahatma Gandhi


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The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Mark Caine
Author

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 14, 2011

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Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 11, 2011

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Catholic Nun and Founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta


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Think as you work, for in the final analysis your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems but in anticipating them. 


Herbert H. Ross  

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 10, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 10, 2011


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Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson - Singer-Songwriter

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Love and laughter hold us together. 

Ingrid Trobisch  

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 9, 2011

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1821-1881, Writer

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One difference between successful people and all the rest is that successful people take action.

Bob Proctor - Speaker and Author



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Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 8, 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 8, 2011

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PLEASE VOTE!

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It's up to each of us to take the time and invest the energy to tap our wells of personal skills and talents. Scott C. Miller

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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.  

John Andrew Holmes

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Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. Author unknown


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Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 7, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Nov. 7, 2011

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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.

Marcia Wieder - Author and Speaker

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We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.

Desire-Joseph Mercier

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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man.  The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Hindu proverb


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Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 4, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Nov. 4, 2011

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.  

Duguet

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The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.

Dwight L. Moody


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Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 3, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Nov. 3, 2011

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

John Farrar - Australian Composer

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Have a reason for making a decision. You won't always be right, but be sure your reasoning was correct.

Eddie Kasko

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

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Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 2, 2011

Inspirations for Wed., Nov. 2, 2011

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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Harrison Ford - Actor

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Obey the voice within--it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive.

Kirk Douglas

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The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory.

Pristine Bradley



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Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 1, 2011

Inspirations for Tue., Nov. 1, 2011

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The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent.

Alfred Brendel

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

Earl Nightingale - 1921-1989, Author of The Strangest Secret

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I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

James Cash Penney
1875-1971, Entrepreneur and Founder of J.C. Penney Department Stores

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Inspirations for Mon., Oct. 31, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Oct.31, 2011

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The danger of choosing to be measured by the standards of others is that you may set artificially low limits on your own potential.  If what is available to you is the combined wisdom and experience of all who came before you, it is reasonable to believe that you can set new standards, standards which no one has yet dreamed of.  Therefore, respectfully reject the limits that have been set by others and in their place choose the universe as your limit.

Henry Ford - P. 22, Success is You

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Inspirations for Fri., Oct. 28, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Oct. 28, 2011

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Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons.

Douglas Adams - 1952-2001, Writer and Dramatist

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Today, I would like to become the man my dog thinks I am.

Jack Thomson - Entrepreneur

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The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude.  If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you.  But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend  most of your waking hours.    

Beatrice Vincent

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Inspirations for Thur., Oct. 27, 2011

Inspirations for Thur., Oct. 27, 2011

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Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between "I should" and "I did."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand.  That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.  

William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer

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It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher."

Joe Vitale - Author and Speaker


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Inspirations for Wed., Oct. 26, 2011

Inspirations for Wed., Oct. 26, 2011

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The degree of vision that dwells in a man is a correct measure of the man.

Thomas Carlyle


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Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.  

Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim; have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Orison Swett Marden - 1850-1924, Writer



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Inspirations for Tue., Oct. 25, 2011

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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick
Writer

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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for.

Maureen Dowd

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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.  

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Inspirations for Mon., Oct. 24, 2011

Inspirations for Mon., Oct. 24, 2011

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.  

W.J. Davison

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General

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Always err on the side of doing right. You and only you are responsible for your ethics.

Griffin Bell


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Inspirations for Fri., Oct. 21, 2011

Inspirations for Fri., Oct., 21, 2011

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Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, Comedian and Actor

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Always err on the side of doing right. You and only you are responsible for your ethics. 


Griffin Bell


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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby
Comedian, Actor and Author

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