"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -- Malcolm S. Forbes, American Businessman

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1 inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 1InspirationalQuotesCourtesyofAudriandJimLanfordhtp:/ "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -- Malcolm S. Forbes, American Businessman "People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." -- Andrew Carnegie "You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well." -- Irvine Robbins, Co-Founder of Baskin- Robbins Ice Cream "You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle." -- George Lucas, Film Producer "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." -- Richard DeVos, Co-founder of Amway Corp. "So what do we do? Anything - something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late." -- Lee Iacocca "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now." -- P. T. Barnum, circus owner "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." -- William James

2 "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." -- Peter Ustinov "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." -- Jonathan Winters "Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory." -- Alan Alda "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge." -- Albert Einstein "Genius is talent provided with ideals." -- William Somerset Maugham "Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." -- Thomas Jefferson "It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet "It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet "If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one." -- Mark Twain "The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year." -- Samuel Johnson, Author "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event -- it is a habit." -- Aristotle "Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 2

3 other, a matter of time." -- Marabel Morgan "Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is - and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other." -- Mother Teresa "You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." -- Vincent Van Gogh, Painter "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." -- Greek Proverb "When you are through changing, you are through." -- Bruce Barton "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." -- Karl Wallenda "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." -- Anais Nin "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." -- Erma Bombeck "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." -- John Lubbock "I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message." -- Steve Irwin "Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty." -- Walter Lippmann, American Journalist "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 3

4 touched. They must be felt with the heart." -- Helen Keller "A goal is a dream with a deadline." -- Harvey Mackay "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." -- Jim Rohn, Author and Speaker "Live out of your imagination, not your history." -- Stephen Covey "One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." -- Dale Carnegie "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." -- Earl Nightingale "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -- Norman Vincent Peale "To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives." -- Denis Waitley, Author and Speaker "Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer "Analyze the record of any person who has accumulated great fortune, and many of those who have accumulated modest fortunes, and you will find that they have either consciously, or unconsciously employed the Master Mind principle." -- Napoleon Hill "Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing." -- Loral Langemeier, Author "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." -- Marianne Williamson, Author "Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it." -- Les Brown, Author inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 4

5 "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." -- H. Jackson Brown, Author of "Life's Little Instruction Book" "DREAM, PLAN, EXECUTE, and SOAR!" -- Patrick Snow, author of 'Creating Your Own Destiny' "If we had to overcome every possible objection before we got started, then nothing -- absolutely nothing -- would ever get accomplished." -- Richard Carlson "He who lives with his memories becomes old. He who lives with plans for the future remains young." -- Unknown "If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100]" -- Eubie Blake, American Song Writer, Composer "Music is love searching for a word." -- Sidney Lanier "A year from now you will wish you had started today." -- Karen Lamb "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -- George Washington Carver "If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." -- Anonymous "Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." -- Mary Ellen Kelly "When plans are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them." -- Sir William Osler, Physician "Success in life is truly a do-it-yourself project." -- Bob Rodale "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." -- Yogi Berra "Feelings aren't positive or negative, it's what you do with those feelings that becomes good or bad." -- Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." -- Charles de Gaulle "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 5

6 a light from within." -- Elizabeth Kubler Ross "You love the life you live, when you live the life you love." -- Joyce Chapman "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves." -- John Randolph "My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency...become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it.'" -- Rudolph Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City inspirational quotes - audri & jim lanford Page 6

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. Andrew Carnegie

We believe that according the name investors to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic. Warren Buffett There is scarcely an instance