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Inspirational Quotations #147

December 13, 2006 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

The most damaging phrase in the language is: it’s always been done that way.
—Grace Hopper

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
—Norman Mailer

Never cut what you can untie.
—Joseph Joubert (French Essayist)

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
—John Lubbock

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows wither he is going.
—David Starr Jordan (American Zoologist)

A rising tide lifts all boats.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
—Peter Drucker (Austrian-born Management Consultant)

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it’s difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.
—John-Roger, Peter McWilliams

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
—Plato (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

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