Apple Seeds

August 2008
A month of inspirational quotes
Compiled by
Barb Stutesman

The price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unrelenting devotion to the things you
want to see happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Clothes are there to suit your life, not to run it. ~ John Weitz
Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same. They both come from fear. ~ Dr. Richard
Anthony
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~ James G. Blaine
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because
someday in life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~ James Baldwin
It is better to protest than to accept injustice. ~ Rosa Parks
If you can’t be funny, be interesting. ~ Harold Ross
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ~ George Eliot
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ~ Thomas Edison
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day sky, is hardly a waste
of time. ~ John Lubbock
Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it. ~ Lin Yuang
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star. ~ Confucius
An intellectual is someone who can listen to “The William Tell Overture” and not think of
the Lone Ranger. ~ unknown
The world is moving so fast these days that the person who says it can’t be done is generally
interrupted by someone doing it. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Every beast roars in its own den. ~ Bantu proverb
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what
makes the right important. ~ Walter Lippmann
Love thy neighbor, yet don’t pull down your hedge. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don’t. ~
Peter Scotese
That is how the world moves: not like an arrow, but a boomerang. ~ Ralph Ellison
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Indira Gandhi
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ~ Joseph Conrad
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~ Sam Keen
A good scare is worth more to a person than good advice. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where
it leads. ~ Erica Jong
Service is the rent you pay for room on this earth. ~ Shirley Chisholm
Memory is the one paradise out of which we cannot be driven. ~ Sacha Guitry
Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them – and then you destroy yourself. ~
Richard Nixon
Inconsistency is the only thing in which people are consistent. ~ Horace Smith
Too much agreement kills a chat. ~ Eldridge Cleaver

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