Quotes for December … for those who like them.
Sanderson
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He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
(Unknown source)
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quite voice at the end of the day saying. “I will try again tomorrow.
(Mary Anne Radmacher)
There’s nothing so good for the inside of man as the outside of a horse.
(Ronald Reagan)
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
(Larry Wilde)
Tact is the ability to stay in the middle without getting caught there.
(Franklin Jones)
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
(Bennett Cerf)
People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.
(Gene Wilkes)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
(Unknown source)
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
(Dr. Seuss)
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
(Dr. Seuss)
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can’t be ultimately changed. It’s like the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.
(Sam Shepherd)
Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to day-to-day obstacles of life - facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.
(John Amatt)
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
(Charles Dickens)
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
(Warren Buffett)
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
(Bill Vaughn)
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
(Garrison Keillor)
Unless people undertake more than they can possibly do, they will never do all they can do.
(Henry Drummond)
I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I can understand them better.
(Jerry Brown)
Love is true when you don’t see eye to eye, but can still walk hand in hand.
(Unknown source)
More people fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent.
(Billy Sunday)
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.
(Walter Winchell)
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
(Karen Ravn)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
(Stephen Kaggwa)
“For example” is not proof.
(Yiddish proverb)
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
(Arab proverb)
You can observe a lot just by watching.
(Yogi Berra)
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics. I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
(Jack Kemp, politician and former football player)
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
(Gore Vidal)
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
(Unknown source)
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruples. Take it and copy it.
(Ken Hubbard)
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people never forget how you made them feel.
(Maya Angelou)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.
(Woodrow Wilson)
Prejudice saves a lot of time because you can form an opinion without the facts.
(Unknown source)
I am disturbed when I see a cigarette between the lips or fingers of some important person upon whose intelligence and judgment the welfare of the world in part depends.
(Linus Pauling)
Progress might have been all right once, but it’s gone on for too long.
(Ogden Nash)
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you’re trying to accomplish and what you’re willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
(Lee Iacocca)
If you would create something, you must be something.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
(Le Rochefoucauld)
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
(Aristotle)
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
(Julie Renard)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
(Martina Navratilova)
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else.
(Meryl Streep)
I keep the telephone of my mind open to piece, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and they’ll soon forget my number.
(Edith Armstrong)
Sincerity resembles a spice. Too much repels you and too little leaves you wanting.
(Bill Copeland)
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
(Dick Cheney)
Impatience never commanded success.
(Edwin H. Chapin)
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
(Jules Renard)
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
(Herbert Otto)
Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway.
(John Wayne)
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Since it is Christmas season I’ll throw in the following song which I have posted before.
I’ve had it for years. I didn’t write it.
I do now know the original source.
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!"