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Sage sayings, maxims and quotable quotes
These memes have appear through this past year both on By George Twitter @ByGeorgeJournal and on the BGJ Facebook page. The Dalai Lama provides inspiration and reason to pause for millions around the world. He is truly a spiritual guiding light. Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer…
Follow the three R’s: respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality….
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has…
I’ve put my genius into my life; I’ve only put my talent into my works. A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Good artists exist simply in what…
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. When writers and speakers pondered upon words and weighed each of them before making a sentence. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Winston Churchill I have never killed a man,…
In a person’s quest for success and happiness, literary giant Tolstoy wrote ten rules to follow. Interestingly, he wrote these rules when he was 18 years old. Through his life, he broke many of them. (ed. – I can’t help wondering what he would have written as rules in his later years?) Tolstoy’s “10 Rules…
Citius, altius, fortius (Faster, higher, stronger) – Olympic Motto The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. – Pierre…
In By George’s endless search for the most remarkable thoughts and moving quotes, we came across the “Top 10 Inspirational Quotes” from the About.com Guide. Here are a great “top 10” bons mots. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did…
A Day in the Life of Man is a source of personal energy – a perfect gift for family, friends and co-workers For Chris George, remarkable quotes and verse help to put life into perspective – the magic and mysteries of our world and of man are translated through poignant thought. So, it…
Margaret Thatcher’s musings have provided motivation for many around the world. Here’s a favourite on the topic of success: What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and…
One of the greatest thinkers this world has seen is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Here’s how he defined success. To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, To find the best…
Here are ten great motivational quotes we saw yesterday on our Twitter feed – @ByGeorgeJournal. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. – Robert Kennedy The dictionary is the only place where success comes before…
A few of our favourite bons mots at By George…. Strive for excellence, not perfection. – Jackson Brown Jr. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. – Albert Einstein Live this day as if it were your last. The past is gone. The future is not guaranteed. –…
Nice, Istanbul, Madrid, Paris, Brussels… As our world attempts to absorb one horrific tragedy after another, By George offers these quotes of reflection – bons mots of hope, promise and caring. Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings…
Brian Vaszily, founder and editor in chief of IntenseExperiences.com, has provided us with his 25 greatest motivational quotes. Here they are (counted down to Vaszily’s #1 selection): 25) Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count. – Albert Einstein 24) Everything that irritates us about…
We’ve almost completed our first day back. Here are another dozen quotes on work and effort that we found rather amusing today. (ed. – Thank you to all those who contacted us with words of encouragement on this day). Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. – Heywood Hale Broun Ya gots to work with what you gots to…
Our 2016 Nova Scotia summer vacation has ended and now back to work…. So, what better way to ease into our first day back than to comb through bons mots on “work”. Here are a dozen favourites: The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. – Arnold Toynbee Far and away the best…
All government, of course, is against liberty. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. For every complex problem there…
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. – Plato The problem with political jokes is they get elected. – Henry Cate, VII We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop I have come to the conclusion…
By George presents 6 of our FAV memes extolling the virtue of a simple approach to life. Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @ CG&A COMMUNICATIONS.