{"id":2035,"date":"2011-06-23T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2011-06-23T10:17:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T14:17:27","slug":"2035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 favourite @ByGeorgeJournal Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <em>By George Journal <\/em>tweeted its 500<sup>th<\/sup> tweet.\u00a0 Our core mission on Twitter is to provide memorable quotes to motivate and inspire \u2013 and provoke. (We also offer views on Canada, public relations, the world of politics and business.) You can follow us:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ByGeorgeJournal\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ByGeorgeJournal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are our top 50 favourite tweets of the first 500 @byGeorgeJournal tweets (this is the first of a two-part post):\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. &#8211; Cynthia Ozick<\/li>\n<li>They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. &#8211; Carl W. Buechner<\/li>\n<li>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. \u2013 Aristotle<\/li>\n<li>Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. &#8211; Jim Rohn<\/li>\n<li>Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. &#8211; Jim Rohn<\/li>\n<li>Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. &#8211; John Stosssel<\/li>\n<li>If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. &#8211; David Viscott<\/li>\n<li>We were born to succeed, not to fail. &#8211; Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. &#8211; Thomas Edison<\/li>\n<li>You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round. &#8211; James J. Corbett<\/li>\n<li>Never mistake motion for action. &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li>Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>Ability will enable a man to get to the top, but character will keep him from falling. &#8211; American proverb<\/li>\n<li>You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life. &#8211; E Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. &#8211; Albert Einstein<\/li>\n<li>A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, &amp; his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. \u2013 Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>Strive for excellence, not perfection. &#8211; Jackson Brown Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Common sense is not so common. \u2013 Voltaire<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s no substitute for hard work. &#8211; Thomas Edison<\/li>\n<li>Happiness depends upon ourselves. \u2013 Aristotle<\/li>\n<li>Life is a series of commas, not periods. &#8211; Matthew McConaughey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, By George Journal tweeted its 500th tweet.\u00a0 Our core mission on Twitter is to provide memorable quotes to motivate and inspire \u2013 and provoke. (We also offer views on Canada, public relations, the world of politics and business.) 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