INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES DECEMBER 2011 (including Math Christmas songs).

Sanderson

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. (Estonian proverb)

There is not enough darkness in the world to snuff out the light of even one small candle. (Martin Edelman)

You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might get there. (Yogi Berra)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living some else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinion drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition.

They somehow know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary. (Steve Jobs)

A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. (William James)

A word to the wise isn’t necessary; it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. (Bill Cosby)

I don’t know the key to success but I know that the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Bill Cosby)

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. (George S. Patton)

In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. (Derek Bruce)

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. (Unknown source)

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. (Herb Caen)

No one has it all together but together we have it all. (Herbert Willis)

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together. (Unknown source)

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments. (Joseph Addison)

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. (Confucius)

It’s amazing how much you can hear when no one is saying anything. (Elaine St. James)

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor was the reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolidge)

Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of our mouth. (Morris Mandel)

Aspire to inspire before you expire. (Unknown source)

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. (Sun Tzu)

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. (Mark Twain)

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument. (William Gibbs McAdoo)

After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. (Cato the Elder, 234-140 BC)

The number 317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way. (Godfrey Hardy)

If everything is under control, you are going too slow. (Mario Andretti)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need. (Roden, creator of statues)

If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, think that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity. (Umberto Eco)

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. (John Ruskin)

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Being a leader is like being a lady; if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren’t. (Margaret Thatcher)

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. (Chinese proverb)

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. (Linda Ellerbee)

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back what you are. (Thomas Dreier)

Ego trip: A journey to nowhere. (Robert Half)

Practice doesn’t make perfect, nor is it supposed to. Practice is about increasing your repertoire as a way to recover from your mistakes. (Joan Gutin)

The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. (Nelson Mandela)

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much. Wisdom is humble that she knows so little. (Unknown source)

We have come from somewhere and we are going somewhere. The great architect of the universe never built a staircase that leads to nowhere. (Robert Millian)

The person who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. (Newton Baker)

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. (Helen Keller)

Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice people most often finish first or very near it. (Malcolm Forbes)

The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. (Benjamin Mays)

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Theodore Vail)

You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create. (Mike Murdock)

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. (Mark Twain)

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set bad examples. (Source unknown)

Bad neighbors never hear their own dogs bark. (Source unknown)

A perfect marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It’s when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. (David Meurer)

True success is overcoming the fear of being successful. (Source unknown).

Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)

If you want your dreams to come true, don’t oversleep. (American proverb)

Tackling life’s problems is like eating an orange. They’re much easier to handle one section at a time. (Davis Zahka)

(WHAT IS BELOW WAS SENT TO ME BY SCOTT MACCONNELL, A COLLEGE FRIEND WHO NOW LIVES IN NOVA SCOTIA. SCOTT SAID THAT HE AND HIS WIFE FOUND THIS AT A TRUCK STOP. BOTTOM LINE: I DON’T KNOW THE ORIGINAL SOURCE.)

Before you say another word:

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead, and a place to sleep...you are richer than 70% of the world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If you woke this morning with more health than illness...you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.

If you never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you can hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful....you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

If you can hold someone's hand, hug them, or even touch them on the shoulder....you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.

If you can read this message, then you have just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and further more, you are more blessed then over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Have a good day and count your blessings.

MATH CHRISTMAS SONGS (I’ve had these for many years. I don’t know the original sources.)

RUDOLPH THE STATISTICIAN (Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

Rudolph, the statistician

Sampled data everywhere.

Mean heights and heart conditions

Calculated with great care.

All of his population

Gathered from coast to coast

Sought out his information;

He would always give the most.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve

Santa came to say,

"Rudolph, with your pencil write,

What gifts I should take tonight."

Quickly he polled the children,

Then Rudolph shouted out with glee:

"Stats did provide the answer:

Give Nintendo and Barbie!"

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ON THE FIRST DAY OF MATH CLASS (Sung to the tune of ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS)

On the first day of math class

My teacher said to me,

“The assignment is on page three.”

On the second day of math class

My teacher said to me,

“Get extra help: The assignment is on page three.”

On the third day of math class

My teacher said to me,

“Are there any questions? Get extra help: The assignment is on page three.”

On the fourth day of math class

My teacher said to me,

“We’ll have a test on Thursday. Are there any questions? Get extra help: The assignment is on page three.”

On the fifth day of math class

My teacher said to me,

“Please study hard. We’ll have a test on Thursday. Are there any questions? Get extra help: The assignment is on page three.”

JINGLE ALGEBRA (Sung to the tune of JINGLE BELLS)

Dashing through my text,

I’m getting so perplexed.

But if I go too slow

It gives me greater woe,

Oh, Oh, Oh!

I study Algebra

My brain stops: I say “Duh!”

So much I do not know

And so very far to go. Whoa!

Properties, Quantities,

Factors on their way;

Points to plot,

I think a lot

Success should come my way!

Rational ‘n radical

Equations have a say.

Slopes and lines,

I’ll make the time.

Math power’s here to stay! Yea!

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