INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for December 2010



INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES July 2015

Sanderson

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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. (Kenny Rogers)

To go nowhere, follow the crowd. (D. S.Kopplin)

You can let the parade walk over you, or you can jump in front and pretend it's your parade. (Robert Strauss)

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. (Thomas Paine)

When you can't decide which of two evenly-balanced courses to take - choose the bolder. (W. J. Slim)

"Tomorrow will be better."

"But what if it's not?" I asked.

"Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow

will be better." (Morgan Matson)

New roads, new ruts. (G. K. Chesterton)

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

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

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

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)

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

Life is not a stress rehearsal. (Loretta Laroche)

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. (Jimmy Carter)

Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears. (Terry Litwiller)

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

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

This Republic was not established by cowards and cowards will not preserve it. (Elmer Davis)

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulders. But cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. (Marion Howard)

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. (James Russell Lowell)

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others. (Elbert Hubbard)

We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations." (W. Clement Stone)

I do with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I could find them, but I seldom use them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them to the impossible. (Arthur C. Clarke)

A promising young man should go into politics so he can keep on promising for the rest of his life. (Robert Byrne)

Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. (Howard Cosell)

A good memory test: Try to remember the things you worried about last week. (Dorothea Kopplin)

Don't take up people's time talking about the smartness of your children; they want to talk to you about the smartness of their children. (Edgar Howe)

Never ask of money spent

Where the spender think it went

Nobody was every meant

To remember or invent

What he did with every cent. (Robert Frost)

A tooth inside another person's mouth does not hurt. (Russian proverb)

In putting off your tasks and ruing them, you waste more time than you would spend in doing them. (Arthur Guiterman)

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. (Vince Lombardi)

The rule of life is to be found within yourself. Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Beware of doing that which you are likely, sooner or later, to repent of having done. (Confucius)

A minute of success pays for years of failure. (Robert Browning)

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. (Dennis Waitley)

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher. (Mark Twain)

Pull out a gray hair and seven will come to its funeral. (Pennsylvania Dutch saying)

A good marriage is like a casserole: Only those responsible for it know what really goes in it. (Unknown source)

Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows. (Peggy Noonan)

My ear is open for appreciation, but for criticism, you have to make an appointment. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants, and then burn a hold in the coat. (Dr. Laurence Peter)

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our needs from our greeds. (Dan Robinson)

You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, quietly called dandelions. (Henry Ward Beecher)

A good scare is worth more to a person than good advice. (Edgar Howe)

He who is contented is rich. (Lao Tzu)

This above all, to thine own self by true. (William Shakesphere)

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ((Chinese proverb)

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace for those with eyes to see beyond. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. (Beverly Sills)

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball. And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. (Ogden Nash)

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. (Harlan Ellison)

Change what you see by changing how you see. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie)

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. (Mark Twain)

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell)

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. (Unknown source)

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. (Tom Hopkins)

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow)

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. (John Wooden)

Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has . (Margaret Mead)

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass ... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. (Vivian Greene)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Harper Lee)

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. (Lao Tzu)

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Robert Bach)

Impossibility is an opinion, not a fact. (Unknown source)

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. (C. S. Lewis)

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. (Carl Sandburg)

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. (Abraham Lincoln)

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A Herkimer Silly Probability Quiz.

What is the probability that:

1. Since a wise man makes good decisions, that a wise guy will also?

2. If a salesman tells you that a purchase will “pay for itself in time,” that will honor a request to send it to

you when it does?

3. Since one must pass a civil service exam to work for the government, that a taxpayer will have to take

the test?

4. If you pretend to be sick when it is raining, someone will consider you a liar if you say you are “under

the weather?”

5. If someone who squanders money gets paid in cold cash, the money won’t stay in his pocket long

enough to get warm?

6. An endangered animal would refuse to eat an endangered plant?

7. A bank would charge you a non-sufficient funds fee on money that they already know you don’t have?

8. Since light travels faster than sound, someone might appear to be very bright before you hear him

speak?

9. A college graduate would realize that there are five syllables in the word monosyllabic?

10. A thinking individual wonders why one drives on a parkway and parks in a driveway?

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