Inspirational words


Wednesday, 22. May 2013

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* When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D Roosevelt

* The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

* You never learn anything like you learn it by experiencing it. Alice Neel

* If your experiences would benefit anybody, give them to someone. Florence Nightingale

* If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. Carolyn Kenmore

* Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. Dean Acheson

* Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life. Sir Phillip Sidney

* If things go wrong , don’t go with them. Roger Babson

* Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

* You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it himself. Galileo

* You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey

* You can cry, but don’t let it stop you. Don’t cry in one spot – cry as you continue to move. Kina

* Feel the fear and do it anyway. Susan Jeffers

* Let no one ever come to you without leaving you better and happier. Mother Teresa

* The wise person reads both books and life itself. Lin Yutang

* There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills

* It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Al Batt

* When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in our hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen  

* Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. Thomas Szasz

* The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph Sockman

* A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H Glasow

* A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Lois Wyse

* I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Charles R Swindoll

* A friend should bear a friend’s infirmities. William Shakespeare

* A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. Donna Roberts.

* A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself. Frances Ward Weller

* We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. Letty Cottin Pogrebin

* A friend is the one who comes in the whole world has gone out. Grace Pulpit

* The best time to make a friend is before you need one. Ethel Barrymore

* Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin

* Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Sir Wilfred Grenfell

* The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Bishop Mandell Creighton

* If you risk nothing then you risk everything. Geena Davis

* The only real risk is of thinking too small. Frances Moore Lappe

* Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. Who conquers now shall rule the coming year. Sarah Knowles Bolton

* Remember the past gives power to the present. Faye Myenne Ng

* Every exit is an entry somewhere. Tom Stoppard

* They can take away everything except your talents. Carleedancer

* Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

* Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

* You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt

* You maybe disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. Beverly Sills

* Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else. Judy Garland

* I believe he most important thing is not to lose the perspective of where one is heading. Benazir Bhutto

* You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the one who’ll decide where to go. Dr. Seuss

* Don’t let your personal troubles prevent you from being a blessing to others. Carleedancer

* The world is round and only the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest.