INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES for January 2011
Sanderson
Just keep going. Everybody bets better if they just keep at it. (Ted Williams)
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in. (Gail Sheehy)
If we have our own “why” of life, we can bear almost any “how.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Advice should always be consumed between two think slices of doubt. (Walt Schmidt)
When we are confident, all we need is a little support. (Andre Laurendeau)
I like the dreams of the future better than the dreams of the past. (Thomas Jefferson)
To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. (George Orwell)
Man is a strange animal. He doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. (Adlai Stevenson)
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a person on a mountain road at night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. (C. S. Lewis)
Don’t take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)
The cheapest way to have your family tree traced is to run for public office. (Source unknown)
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy)
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. (John Locke)
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. (Albert Clark)
Never trust a tree that says, “We’re out of the woods.” (Robert Morgan)
Never try to lick ice cream off a hot sidewalk. (Snoopy)
Gratefulness is the key to a happy live that we have in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy. (Brother David Steindl-Rast)
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscious. (French proverb)
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
We are only young once. That is all society can stand. (Bob Bowen)
If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we’d saved enough to enjoy it. (Jim Fiebig)
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for a handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it; friends make life a lot more fun. (Charles R. Swindoll)
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves. (Buddha)
Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too. (Bill Vaughn)
Democracy is not a spectator sport. (Marian Edelman)
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. (Sam Rayburn)
Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies. (Franklin Jones)
In words as fashions the same rule will hold
Alike fantastic if too new or old;
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Alexander Pope)
A crooked tree will never strengthen its branches. (Ken Alstad, Savvy Sayin’s)
The best way to convince a tenderfoot is to let him have his own way. (Ken Alstad, Savvy Sayin’s)
Never pack a 6 gun with 6 pills in the wheel. If you cain’t do the job with 5 shots, it’s time to get the hell out of there. (Ken Alstad, Savvy Sayin’s)
A man that’s quick of tongue might have to be quick on the trigger. (Ken Alstad, Savvy Sayin’s)
God gave burdens, also shoulders. (Yiddish proverb)
It isn’t failing that spells one’s downfall; it’s running away, giving up. (Michael Greco)
I offer the wise words of the Maharani of Jaipur. She said once, “Keep an open mind; an open mind is a good thing, but don’t keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.” (William Bennett)
Almost as many individuals fail because they try to do too much as fail because they do not do enough. (J. Paul Getty)
The reverse side also has a reverse side. (Japanese proverb)
I teach in order to learn. (Robert Frost)
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give a bad example. (Francois de la Rochefouauld)
You can only be ridden if your back is bent. (Neil Tyson)
Ask any decent person what he or she thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one the answer will be “kindness.” (Kenneth Clark)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the whole family “gets together” alone. (Ashley Montagu)
It is courage that counts. And it counts much more when you employ it on behalf of other, for purposes beyond personal advantage. (John McCain)
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it. (Oscar Wilde)
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a greater feeling of impotence. (Henry Kissinger)
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. (Ginger Rogers)
Ambition lubricates the mind. (Source unknown)
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. (Charles de Gaulle)
Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader. Don’t fall victim to what I call the “ready - aim - aim - aim -aim syndrome.” You must be willing to fire. (T. Boone Pickins)
BELOW IS A MATH CHRISTMAS SONG I HAVE POSTED BEFORE. I’ve had this for many years and I do not know the original source of it. This is the original version. Perhaps someone can alter the last line to make it a bit more modern.
RUDOLPH THE STATISTICIAN(Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)
Rudolph, the statistician
Sampled data everywhere.
Mean heights and heart conditions
Calculated with great care.
All of his population
Gathered from coast to coast
Sought out his information;
He would always give the most.
Then one foggy Christmas eve
Santa came to say,
"Rudolph, with your pencil write,
What gifts I should take tonight."
Quickly he polled the children,
Then Rudolph shouted out with glee:
"Stats did provide the answer:
Give Nintendo and Barbie!"