INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES April 2015

Sanderson

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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. (Charles Dickens)

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza. (Jacquelyn Mitchard)

A clear conscience is often the sign of a bad memory. (Ken Dooley)

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. (Al Batt)

Anyone can wave a flag. The real patriot lives his patriotism in everything he does. (John Devine)

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything. (Unknown source)

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. (John Updike)

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. (Eddie Cantor)

It's simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. (Aristotle)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim)

You change your life by changing your heart. (Unknown source)

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. (E. E. Cummings)

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. (Jim Bishop)

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. (Wallace Stevens)

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Victor Hugo)

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. (Eleanor Hamilton)

Though force can protect in an emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

People will accept your ideas more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. (David H. Comins)

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. (Lana Turner)

Character is what you are in the dark. (Dwight L. Moody)

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. (Unknown source)

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not in it. (Bernard Bailey)

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. (Thomas Merton)

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. (Groucho Marx)

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us see our own way more clearly. (Brendan Francis)

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? (Francios de La Rochefoucauld)

Birds sing in a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? (Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. (Unknown source)

Don't think or judge, just listen. (Sarah Dressen)

You will find that it is necessary to let things go simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie now weights to my ankles. (C. Joy Bell)

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. (Michelle Hodkin)

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. (Sigmund Freud)

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. (Robert Frost)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Albert Einstein)

Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door. (Kyle Chandler)

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big. (Donald Trump)

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did will under pressure. (Unknown source)

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers)

Try to be like a turtle -at ease in your own shell. (Bill Copeland)

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" (Sydney Harris)

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. (Roger Staubach)

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. (Voltaire)

Don't worry about the world coming to an end tomorrow. It's already tomorrow in Australia. (Charles Schultz)

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama)

First is is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. (Kristin Hunter)

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! (Bob Newhart)

There are no impossible dreams; there is just our limited perception of what is possible. (Unknown source)

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon)

I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. (Thomas Carlyle)

Displaying courage and bravery through your actions is the best form of motivation to those who are lucky enough to witness it. (Unknown source)

Laughter is America's most important export. (Walt Disney)

If for a tranquil mind you seek,

these things observe with care:

Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,

and how, and when and where. (Unknown source)

One man with courage is a majority. (Thomas Jefferson)

Walk away from anything or anyone who takes away from your joy. Life is too short to put up with fools. (Unknown source)

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at him. (Sidney Greenberg)

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take (Wayne Gretzky)

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves. (Greg Anderson)

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. (Ray Norda)

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the work. But I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going. (Sylvester Stallone)

Drive carefully ... It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker. (Betsy Denison)

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt)

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of tiny successes. The big ones come to infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. (Norman Lear)

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. (Ralph W. Sockman)

The only way to have a friend is to be one. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The difference in golf and government is that in golf, you can't improve your lie. (George Deukmejian)

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. (Carl Sandburg)

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. (Cherie Carter-Scott)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills)

Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. (Unknown source)

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. (Betsy Denison)

A HERKIMER SILLY PROBABILITY QUIZ.

What is the probability that:

1.  If lawyers can be disbarred and clergymen can be defrocked, that an electrician can

be delighted?

2.  If lawyers can be disbarred and clergymen can be defrocked, that a dry cleaner can

be depressed?

3.  If someone offers you a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth,

that you have wasted a penny?

4.   Since 81 is pronounced eighty-one and 91 is pronounced ninety-one, that a law could be passed

saying that 11 had to be pronounced onety-one?

5.  If mail you sent out is damp when it is returned, that is was returned because of postage dew?

6. If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to see it, that the other trees will make fun of it?

7. If marriages were outlawed, then only outlaws would have in-laws?

8. The second mouse to show up at the trap will get the cheese?

9. If you read an autobiography, that you will learn something about cars?

10. If a man says he will charge you nothing for his advice that his suggestions are worth the price?

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