{"id":4967,"date":"2014-03-10T14:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:36:04","slug":"our-quotes-to-motivate-inspire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=4967","title":{"rendered":"Our #quotes to #motivate &#038; #inspire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<o:AllowPNG\/>\n<\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\"><a title=\"By George on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByGeorgeJournal\" target=\"_blank\">@ByGeorgeJournal<\/a> produces a stream of motivational and inspirational quotes on our Twitter feed to help our followers get through the work day. Here is an example of our regular tweets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">10 quotes to motivate:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Don\u2019t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. \u2013 Howard Thurman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Many of the things you can count, don\u2019t count. Many of the things you can\u2019t count, really count. \u2013 Albert Einstein<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. \u2013 e.e. cummings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow \u2014 and that is likely to hurt. \u2013 Wei Wu Wei<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. \u2013 Harry Truman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. \u2013 Henry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. \u2013 Ann Landers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. \u2013 Henry David Thoreau<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">If we listened to our intellect, we\u2019d never have a love affair. We\u2019d never have a friendship. We\u2019d never go into business, because we\u2019d be too cynical. Well, that\u2019s nonsense. You\u2019ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. \u2013 Annie Dillard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It is never too late to be what you might have been. \u2013 George Eliot<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">10 quotes to inspire: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">You see things; and you say \u2018Why?\u2019 But I dream things that never were; and I say \u2018Why not? \u2013 George Bernard Shaw <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">A bird doesn\u2019t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. \u2013 Maya Angelou<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Whether you think you can or whether you think you can\u2019t, you\u2019re right. \u2013 Henry Ford <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. \u2013 George Bernard Shaw <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">There is no use trying, said Alice; one can\u2019t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven\u2019t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I\u2019ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. \u2013 Lewis Carroll<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another. \u2013 Richard Bach<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Never look down on anybody unless you\u2019re helping him up. \u2013 Jesse Jackson <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. \u2013 Elizabeth Kubler Ross<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The journey is the reward. \u2013 Chinese Proverb<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">10 FAVs from last week from our favourite tweeps: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. &#8211; Walter Elliot<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. &#8211; Mike Murdock<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men&#8217;s blood. &#8211; Daniel H. Burnham<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. &#8211; Coco Chanel<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">Strive for perfection in everything you do\u2026 Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough. &#8211; Sir Frederick Henry Royce<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">To know what is right and not to do it is the worst form of cowardice. &#8211; Confucius <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">There are no facts, only interpretations. &#8211; Friedrich Nietzsche <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It&#8217;s not selfish to love yourself, to take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It&#8217;s necessary. -Terry Alex<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. &#8211; Pablo Picasso <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"js-tweet-texttweet-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"js-tweet-texttweet-text\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';\">For regular bons mots, consider joining us on Twitter at <a title=\"By George on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByGeorgeJournal\" target=\"_blank\">@ByGeorgeJournal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@ByGeorgeJournal produces a stream of motivational and inspirational quotes on our Twitter feed to help our followers get through the work day. Here is an example of our regular tweets. \u00a0 10 quotes to motivate: Don\u2019t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. 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