INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Sept 2015

Sanderson

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. (Steve Jobs)

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. (Margaret Thatcher)

When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. (Lolly Daskal)

The only place where success becomes before work is in the dictionary. (Vidal Sassoon)

You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you many only fail if you don't mind failing. (Philippos)

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath him. (Henry Kravis)

The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. (Mark Caine)

Fortune sides with him who dares. (Virgil)

I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

People will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but they won't forget the way you made them feel. (Unknown source)

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. (Saadi)

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Samuel Ullman)

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? (Seven Wright)

Religion is for those who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it. (Unknown source)

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. (Leo F. Buscaglia)

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. (Igo Stravinsky)

You've got to get up in the morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. (George Lorimer)

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.

Plan more than you can do, then do it. (Unknown source)

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the work you first thought of. (Burt Bacharach)

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. (Ralph Nader)

Always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. (Sam Rayburn)

There was a young woman named Jenny,

Whose limericks weren't worth a penny.

Her rhythm and rhyme

Were perfectly fine

But when she tried to write any,

She always had one line too many. (Ken Dooley)

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. (Zig Ziglar)

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his states and are their clans are preserved. (Confucius)

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. (Harold Wilson)

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. (Errol Flynn)

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. (Thomas Sowell)

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. (John Ed Pearce)

Humor helps us think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs? (Unknown source)

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. (Unknown source)

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. (Earl Wilson)

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. (William Saroyan)

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A ma can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. (Bernard M. Baruch)

Kind hearts are the gardens,

Kind thoughts are the roots,

Kind words are the flowers,

Kind deeds are the fruits,

Take care of your garden

And keep out the weeds,

Fill it with sunshine,

Kind words and kind deeds. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise. (Horace)

May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays: Someone to love and someone who loves you. (John Sinor)

Life is a state of mind; imagine the one you want, and then create it. (Unknown source)

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. (Garth Stein)

Those who want to succeed will find a way; those who don't will find an excuse. (Leo Aguila)

A person can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting an error, especially when he or she gets caught at it. (Robert Ruark)

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. (Washington Irving)

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. (Elinor Glyn)

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. (Jordan Belfort)

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. (F. Scott Fitxgerald)

I grew up in a gentler, slower time. When Ike was president, Christmases were years apart, and not it's about five months from one to the next. (Garrison Keillor)

Every new year is an adventure into which we must go. (Unknown source)

They talk most who have the least to say. (Matthew Prior)

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. (Anne Frank)

I've learned that saying "Hi" to somebody today can result in a new friend tomorrow. (Unknown source)

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. )Karen E. Quinones Miller)

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. (Leo Buscaglia)

When all is said and done, more is said than done. (Lou Holtz)

Some people don't look for the truths of life; the only search for some to agree with them. (Unknown source)

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. (Chuck Palahniuk)

The soul is healed by being with children. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. (Baruch Spinoza)

Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay. (Dick Enberg)

To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. (Herbert Spencer)

People always lose half of what was gained by violence. What is gained by argument, is gained forever. (Wendell Phillips)

When a person retires and time is no longer of urgent importance, his or her colleagues generally present him with a watch. (R. C. Sheriff)

Etiquette is knowing how to yawn with your mouth closed. (Unknown source)

They pick a president, and then for four years they pick on him. (Adlai Stevenson)

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A HERKIMER SILLY STATISTICAL QUIZ

1.

What is the most likely reason for the great fall experienced by Humpty Dumpty?

(A) He was careless.

(B) He was distracted.

(C) He wanted to make up for a lousy summer.

2.

Which event is most likely to be worse than raining cats and dogs?

(A) A drought.

(B) Heavy winds.

(C) Hailing busses.

3.

If Herkimer broke his arm in two places, what is he most likely to do?

(A) Go to a doctor.

(B) Call 911.

(C) Stay out of those two places.

4. What did George Washington most likely say to his men just before they got in the boat?

(A) "Be brave!"

(B) "Be strong!"

(C) "Men, get in the boat."

5.

What is most likely to be as smart as a talking dog?

(A) A cat with a long tail.

(B) A donkey

(C) A spelling bee

6.

What is probably the best explanation for why bees hum?

(A) Because they are happy

(B) Because they are bored.

(C) Because they don’t know the words to the song.

7.

What are you most likely to be able to count on if you are experiencing a tough period in your life?

(A) Your parents

(B) Your closest friend

(C) Your fingers

8.

What is probably the best way to keep an angry herd of elephants from charging

(A) Offer them peanuts

(B) Ignore them

(C) Take away their credit cards

9.

Why is it highly unlikely that a letter to Washington will get a personal response?

(A) Politicians are too busy to respond.

(B) Politicians don’t pay any attention to their mail

(C) He passed away a long time ago

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