Thursday, March 10, 2011

Here are just a few of my favorite quotes. What are some of yours?


"Food is the chief of all medicines."
The Upanishads (c.800-c.400BCE)

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first"
Shakespeare

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Mother Teresa

"What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me."
Helen Keller

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass"
George Herbert

"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise"
Mother Teresa

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J. Kaiser

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
Chinese Proverb

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph"
Author, Unknown

"Cheerfulness is the very flower of health"
Japanese Proverb

"joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside"
Melba Colgrove

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it eats him last" "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"
Winston Churchill

"Every time you hold your tongue when attacked or misrepresented your spiritual power grows. Humility gives you authority"
.Mt.27:12

"If you don't have any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble"
Bob Hope

"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
Samuel Smiles

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
Helen Keller

"After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box!"
Italian Proverb

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better."
Proverb

"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."
Samuel Smiles

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance"
Confucius

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” Thomas A.Edison

"God directs you from one emotion to another and teaches through opposites, so that you may have two wings to fly, not just one."
Jalal AD-Din Rumi

2 comments:

Shelly - Tropical Mum said...

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph"
Author, Unknown"

This was my favourite. I might bookmark this page for future inspiration. Thanks for sharing them.

nutritionalert said...

"Food is the chief of all medicines."

My favorite. Thanks for sharing.