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Inspirational Quotations #344

October 3, 2010 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

People are lucky and unlucky … according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
—Samuel Butler

It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given.
—Elisabeth Elliot (American Christian Author)

Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.
—Mark Van Doren

Exchange the words ‘have to’ with ‘get to.’ Exchange the word ‘can’t’ with ‘unwilling.’
—Jamie Lee Curtis (American Children’s Books Writer)

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the, estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight … .
—Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
—Edward Everett Hale (American Unitarian Clergyman)

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
—George Meredith

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