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Sage sayings, maxims and quotable quotes
“Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.” – Muhammad Ali #quotes to #inspire & #motivate via @ByGeorgeJournal Via Twitter, we share on a daily basis great quotes to inspire and to motivate. For example, today we tweeted the following: The most important thing about goals is having one. – Geoffrey Abert Fortune befriends the…
There is no one thing that’s true. It’s all true. Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all other days that ever come depend on what you do today. “But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but…
Join us on Twitter @ByGeorgeJournal . One of our goals with our daily tweets is to provide thoughtful quotes and statements of motivation and inspiration. For example, below, here are our last ten quotes tweeted in the last few days. Below those you will find our last ten “favourites.” Connect with us on Twitter – http://twitter.com/ByGeorgeJournal …
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true Here are three of our favourite quotes to cheer in the New Year: * As we start the New Year, let’s get down on…
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By George Journal has been contributing to our growing Twitter community for a little more than 6 months. Our editorial mission is to provide memorable quotes to motivate and inspire – and provoke. Now, with more than 1200 tweets, we thought we’d produce a short-list of our top-10 profound tweets. Life’s most urgent question is:…
It is never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. – Bruce Lee We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge The world is all gates, all opportunities,…
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. – Henri Bergson Never limit your view of life by any past experience. – Ernest Holmes We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. – Woodrow Wilson There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mohandas Gandhi The…
One never tires of the remarkable verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson. To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To give…
Next month, we will be releasing a collection of inspirational and motivational quotes, verses and touching scripts. In the final edits of our book, we’ve re-discovered the moving power behind some very remarkable quotes, said by some very remarkable people. It’s not whether you get knocked down; It’s whether you get back up. – Vince…
He would have been 101 today… Here is renown basketball coach John Wooden’s twelve lessons in leadership: Good values attract good people Love is the most powerful four-letter word Call yourself a teacher Emotion is your enemy It takes 10 hands to make a basket Little things make big things happen Make each day your masterpiece…
What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words… Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. Niels Bohr (1885 – 1962)
The maple leaves are changing to a reddish-brown and there is a biting crispness in the morning air. This can only mean one thing in Canada: the puck is about to be dropped! To help us focus on rinks, sweat and sticks, here is a dozen unforgettable quotes on the greatest game on ice. He shoots! He scores! – Foster…
Ontario voters to to the polls this week. Here are some favourite “elections” quotes as we consider our choices: The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old. – (American) roverb Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody….
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. – Chester Bowles Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln Politicians are people who, when they see light at…
We have published a wonderful resource for all those politicos mastering the game of politics as well as those armchair critics who are avid fans of the sport. 1001 Quotes on Politics, Elections, Democracy and Government is now available – and you can obtain your book on-line with a payment via PayPal. Here is an introductory blurb…
With our loss this week of a great political figure – Jack Layton – Canadians have been mindful of life and death and the challenges a diagnosis of cancer brings to a person, their family and loved ones. It is with these sober reflections that we offer bons mots of hope, promise and caring. What seems…
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine. – Jay Baer Social Media is about sociology and psychology more than technology. – Brain Solis Principal of FutureWorks The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving. – Chris Brogan, author…
What’s required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found. – Chris Brogan, author of…
Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500 @byGeorgeJournal tweets (this is the second of a two-part post): Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson Insist on yourself. Never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Success is the…