INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES May 2016
Sanderson
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As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. (Donald Trump)
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. (John C. Maxwell)
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? (George Carlin)
Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucius)
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't. (Warren G. Tracy)
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. (Napoleon Hill)
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. (Steve Martin)
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. (Yiddish proverb)
Try to be like a turtle - at ease in your own shell. (Bill Copeland)
Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that. (Ellen Degeneres)
Change is not a four letter word .... but often your reaction to it is! (Jeffrey Gitomer)
If you fall, I'll always be there. (The Floor)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. (Walt Disney)
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. (W. C. Fields)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)
The road to success is always under construction. (LilyTomlin)
Some people have such open minds that nothing stays in them long. (J. Tudor Rees)
I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. (John Cage)
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George)
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. (Charles Schultz)
The worst part about being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. (LilyTomlin)
He never says a foolish thing nor ever does a wise one. (John Wilmot)
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. (Russell Baker)
The only fool bigger than the person who know it all is the person who argues with him.. (Stanislaw Jerszy Lec)
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. (Native American proverb)
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. (Mark Twain)
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of sheep. (Malayan proverb)
Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie. (Hyman G. Rickover)
A variety of nothing is better than a monotony of something. Jean-Paul Richter)
If you spend your life always looking forward to something else, the present just slips away. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. (Jack Benny)
The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals. (Comte de Rivrol)
If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively. (Mel Brooks)
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Theodore Roosevelt)
You can change without improving, but you can't improve without changing. (Leo Damkroger)
Look out for the fellow who lets you do all the talking. (Kin Hubbard)
A goal without a plan is only a wish. (Hal Becker)
No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. (Kirk Douglas)
Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day-to-day living that wears you out. (Anton Chekhov)
There are two equally dangerous extremes: to shut reason out and to let nothing else in. (Blaise Pascal)
The biggest bonfire starts from the smallest spark. (Richard Saunders)
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. (Unknown source)
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does. (Mary Bell)
Like the eagle, once we have learned to soar it almost seems effortless. (Unknown source)
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. (Wilson Mizner)
What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. (Portuguese proverb)
Nine tenths of education is encouragement. (Anatole France)
Expect more than you think is possible. (Unknown source)
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Edmund Burke)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. (Oprah Winfrey)
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. (Edmund Hillary)
Whatever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable; faith means believing the unbelievable; and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless. (G. K. Chesterton)
There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. (Hugh Prather)
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. (Herbert Gardner)
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
The breakfast of champions is not cereal - it's the opposition. (Nick Seitz)
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman. (Winston Churchill)
There are advantages to being President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. (Ronald Reagan)
The average person thinks he or she isn't. (Unknown source)
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Avoiding failure is not the same as seeking success. (Roger Fritz)
When there are two Ph.D.s in a developing country, one he Head of State and the other is in exile. (Marcus Samuel)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great people. (Unknown source)
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that. (Paul McCartney)
Part of today's problem is that our paychecks are minus tax and our bills are plus. (John Raudonis)
The older I get, the more I say, "I don't know." When I was younger, I thought I knew it all. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Fools live to regret their words, wise men their silence. (Will Henry)
Status quo. Latin for the mess we're in. (Jeve Moorman)
The reason lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. (WillieTyler)
You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing. (Michael Pritchard)
To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time. (John Roper)
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. (Kevin Spacey)
Putting off an easy things makes is hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. (George Lorimer)
Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. (Rebecca Richards)
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More Herkimer moan-and-groaners....
1. Why did Herkimer put a burning candle on top of a wheelbarrow full of bricks?
2. Why was Herkimer upset when his girl friend said that she hoped to see him pretty soon?
3. When Herkimer brought his dirty friend, Hans, home for lunch what did his mother say?
4. Why does Herkimer think that a school playground is larger at recess time?
5. Where does Herkimer buy ice cream in Arizona?
Solutions...
1. He wanted to lighten the load.
2. Because he thought he was pretty now.
3. "Wash your Hans before eating"
4. Because it has more feet in it.
5. From the Good Yuma Man.