INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES May 2015

Sanderson

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Constant dripping hollows out a stone. (Lucretius)

If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it was probably worth it. (Unknown source)

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. (Andrew Carnegie)

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. If you shouda. and coulda, you woulda done it. (Pat Riley)

Life doesn't kick you around. You kick yourself around. (Wally Amos)

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. (Les Brown)

No one has ever drowned in sweat. (Lou Holtz)

Life is mostly froth and bubble.

Two things stand like stone -

Kindness in another's trouble,

Courage in our own. (Adam Goron)

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. (Oprah Winfrey)

Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time because you won't have a leg to stand on. (Unknown source)

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (Betsy Denison)

When everything's coming your way you are in the wrong lane. (Unknown source)

I don't regret the things I've done. I regret the things I didn't do when I had the chance. ((Unknown source)

Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. (Joshua J. Marine)

The best revenge is massive success. (Frank Sinatra)

When we are wrong, make us easy to change.

When we are right, make us easy to live with. (Alfred Gruenther)

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks drop off. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

It isn't the whistle that pulls the train. (Vermont proverb)

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. (Mark Twain)

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. (Farrah Gray)

When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say. (Unknown source)

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don't have a plan. (Larry Winget)

I am thankful for all those who said NO to me. It is because of them I'm doing it myself. (Albert Einstein)

Forget all the reasons it won't work and believe the one reason it will. (Unknown source)

Ability is a poor man's wealth. (John Wooden)

No rewards are offered for finding fault. (D. S. Kopplin)

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

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. (Betsy Denison)

We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box. (Betsy Denison)

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (Unknown source)

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist. (Jesse Ventura)

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Accept the fact that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue. (Betsy Denison)

Patience is the art of hoping. (Lec de Clapiers)

Veni, vidi, Visa. We came, we saw, we went shopping. (Jan Barrett)

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. (Susan Ertz)

Publicity is like poison. It doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. (Joe Paterno)

The optimist sees the rose and not the thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. (Kahlil Gibran)

One of the most important keys to success is having the discipline to do what you know you should do, even when you don't feel like doing it. (Unknown source)

Don't worry about failures. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. (Jack Canfield)

To go nowhere - follow the crowd. (Dorothea S. Kopplin)

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. (Abba Eban)

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy with it. (Groucho Marx)

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. (Jerry Brown)

I'm grateful for all my problems. As each of them was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those yet to come. I grew on my difficulties. (J. C. Penney)

When a pious victor inquired sweetly, "Henry, have you made your peace with God?" Henry Thoreau replied, "We have never quarreled."

Always be smarter than the people who hire you. (Lena Horne)

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. (Elsa Maxwell)

If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. (Bertrand Russell)

Do not give advice that has not been seasoned by your own performance. (Henry Haskins)

Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer. (Unknown source)

Remember the three universal healers: Calamine lotion, warm oatmeal and hugs. (H. Jackson Brown)

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

The best face lift is a smile. (Unknown source)

Eating slowly helps to keep one slim; in other words, haste makes waist. (A. H. Hallock)

Three things you can't recover in life: the WORD after it's said, the MOMENT after it's missed and the TIME after it's gone. Be careful. (Unknown source)

There is never enough time unless you're serving it. (Malcolm Forbes)

When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say. (Unknown source)

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. (Samuel Smiles)

Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyone. (Mehmet Idan)

Good things happen to those who wait ... greater things come to those who get off their butts and do anything to make it happen. (Unknown source)

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star. (P. T. Barnum)

The test of good manners is being able to put up with the bad ones. (Josephine Baker)

During my 87 years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. (Bernard Baruch)

You have to know the past to understand the present. (Carl Sagan)

Just remember there is someone out there who is more than happy with less than what you have. (Unknown source)

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of people. (Walter Bagehot)

The difference between playing to win and playing not to lose is the difference between the successful person and the security-hunting mediocre person. (David Mahoney)

Until the donkey tried to clear the fence, he thought himself a deer. (Arthur Guiterman)

Liars are never specific. You may believe a fisherman when he announces the length of his fish in feet and inches. You smile only when he measures his catch with a gesture. (James Adams)

As you go through life make this your goal;

Keep your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole. (Sign in doughnut shop)

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will (Anthony Robbins)

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. (Napoleon Hill)

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Herkimer silly probability quiz:

WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY THAT

1. If a worker at a parsley farm owes back taxes, that the government would garnish

his wages?

2. If you are told that it’s raining cats and dogs, that you will step into a poodle if you

go outside?

3. An atheist will have financial problems because he is a member of a non-prophet

organization?

4. A minister who prepares his sermon at the last minute doesn’t practice what he preaches?

5. If a fool and his money are soon parted, that someone will wonder how the fool and his money got

together in the first place?

6. The purchaser of a container of sour cream will wonder why it

has an expiration date?

7. You could actually get a deer to cross the road at the yellow sign?

8. Someone will eventually ask why the word abbreviation is so long?

9. If your conscious is always clear, that you have a bad memory?

10. Santa’s elves are just a bunch of subordinate Clauses?

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