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Yesterday, By George Journal tweeted its 500th tweet. Our core mission on Twitter is to provide memorable quotes to motivate and inspire – and provoke. (We also offer views on Canada, public relations, the world of politics and business.) You can follow us: http://twitter.com/#!/ByGeorgeJournal Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500…
Here are 10 beautiful quotes respecting motherhood (some wonderful thoughts to inscribe in your cards). Happy Mothers Day: When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren The mother’s heart is the child’s…
As regular readers of the By George Journal know, we are on Twitter, tweeting favourite quotes and observations about leadership, success, a healthy attitude and life. Here are our current Favourite 25: Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle A ship is safe…
Recently, By George Journal has begun tweeting a few poignant motivational and inspirational quotes each day. Here are ten of our favourite from the past two weeks… Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. – Thoreau Happiness comes of the capacity to feel…
In December 2005, CG&A COMM published their research on uncovering the most significant quotes through the ages. Here is an annotated list (in no particular order) of the ‘Top-Ten-Quotes-of-All-Time.’ Do onto others as you would have others do onto you. The Bible – This is known as the ‘Golden Rule’. It captures the…
Here are “the ten most popular inspirational quotes,” according to the Famous Quotes and Quotations website. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not? – George Bernard Shaw…
A government is not in power, it is in office, put there by the will of the people. – Stanley Baldwin I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests. – Aneurin Bevan Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness….
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. – Mark Twain When you are in politics you are in a wasp’s nest with a short shirt-tail, as the saying is. – Mark Twain Look at the tyranny of party — at what is…
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking. – Ann Coulter Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative. – Glenn Beck A group of…
There are more votes on Main Street than Bay Street. – John G. Diefenbaker In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. – Brian Mulroney In some ways, a vote is a little bit like falling in love. People do not fall in love with the best-qualified candidate. – David…
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. – John Stuart Mill The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. – John Stuart Mill A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or…
There are no lost causes in politics because there are no won causes. – Margaret Thatcher If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. – Margaret Thatcher The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. – George Bernard…
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin Honesty is the best policy. – Benjamin Franklin Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. – Benjamin Franklin The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin Words…
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness. – Thomas Paine The most fundamental problem of politics… is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. – Henry Kissinger Every statesman must attempt to reconcile what is considered just with what is considered possible. – Henry Kissinger Democracies are value-neutral….
New York Yankees’ Boss, George Steinbrenner, passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 80. Here are some of his pearls of wisdom in an Esquire “What I’ve Learned” column from 2002 – when he was a young 71. When you’re entrusted with a tradition, you’ve got to protect it. If you haven’t…
As a long-time reader of American magazine Esquire, I have always enjoyed the feature “What I’ve learned”. This is an invaluable collection of wisdom from guest columnists on the lessons learned through life. Here are a dozen gems from musicians Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris and Ray Charles. Songs are more powerful than books. – Elvis…
If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it, Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If only desire of it Makes you quite mad enough Never to tire of it, Makes you hold all other things tawdry…
When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill. When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life…
The budget should be balanced; the treasury refilled; public debt should be reduced; the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled; and assistance to foreign lands should be limited, lest the State become bankrupt. The people should be forced to work and not depend on Government for assistance. – Marcus Tullius Cicero The more…
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. – Woodrow Wilson Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is. – Woodrow Wilson I like the…