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:
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Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500 @byGeorgeJournal tweets (this is the first of a two-part post):
- To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. – Cynthia Ozick
- They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn
- Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. – Jim Rohn
- Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. – Albert Einstein
- Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. – John Stosssel
- If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. – David Viscott
- We were born to succeed, not to fail. – Henry David Thoreau
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
- You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. – James J. Corbett
- Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemingway
- Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. – Albert Einstein
- Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling. – American proverb
- You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. – Albert Einstein
- We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
- Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life. – E Roosevelt
- We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. – Albert Einstein
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, & his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde
- Strive for excellence, not perfection. – Jackson Brown Jr.
- Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire
- There’s no substitute for hard work. – Thomas Edison
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
- Life is a series of commas, not periods. – Matthew McConaughey
