Bonus quotes for the New Year

Perhaps the best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Dean Acheson

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
~ John Quincy Adams

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
~ Aristotle

accomplishment, hurry, leadership

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
~ Thomas Edison (1847-1931) U.S. inventor

Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.
~ Igor Stravinsky

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
~ Dennis Peer

Some quotes for Christmas

There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."
~ Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )

The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.
~ Sir Colin Marshall

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
~ Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

Standards, Worrying, Freedom

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.
~ Jeph Jacques

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
~ Winston Churchill

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Scarcity, Senility, Knowledge vs Emotion

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
~ Goethe

Don't worry about senility - when it hits you, you won't know it.
~ Bill Cosby

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
~ Bertrand Russell

Wealth, Life, Diplomacy

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
~ Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
~ Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English author

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Lee Frost

Patriot, Variance, Dance

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country,
right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived
that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
~ Mark Twain

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance
is everything.
~ Jack Welch

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~ Japanese Proverb

SIlver lining, Misery, Face it

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you
want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what
people think of you.
~ Charles Kingsley

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be
changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin

Good Nature, Quiet, Drug Testing

Commonsense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of
life not too difficult.
~ William Somerset Maugham

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that
ideas will have a chance of connecting.
~ Eric Maisil

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
greed and love of power.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

Quotes just for fun

May your troubles be less,
May your blessings be more,
May nothing but happiness come through your door!
~ Irish Blessing

Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that
are required.
~ Warren Buffett

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown

No Fast Pass, Yelling, Be the Change

Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don't want a
fast pass. You only have one ride through life so make the most of it
and enjoy the ride.
~ Advice

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
~ David Oman McKay

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Blessed, Originality, Cynics

Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
~ Advice

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a
wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
~ U.S. Andersen

Successful day, Swimmers, Bayonets

Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: "I
am thankful for __________. Today I accomplished _________."
~ Advice

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
~ Steven Wright

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
~ Boris Yeltsin

Family, Humor, Intellect

Call your family often.
~ Advice

No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
~ Albert Einstein

Civilization, and Misery Loves Company

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
~ Advice

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
~ Will Durant

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
~ Henry David Thoreau

UPDATE:

Leadership, Misunderstandings

The best is yet to come.
~ Advice

He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
~ Anonymous
[I disagree. It's not followers who define leadership. It's principles. – K]

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
~ William James

envy, patriotism, silence

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

~ Advice

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

~ Lin Yutang

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) U.S. 16th President

the future, and patriotism vs. rights

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

~ Advice

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

~ Arthur C. Clarke (1917-) English novelist - science fiction writer best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edge sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.

~ Julius Caesar

freedom and good books

Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will stay in touch.

~ Advice

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

~ Noam Chomsky (1928-) U.S. author

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

~ Ernest Hemingway

change, and interrupting

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
~ Advice

With a stop light, green means "go" and yellow means "slow down". With a banana, however, it is quite the opposite. Yellow means "go", green means "whoa, slow down" and red means "where the heck did you get that banana?"
~ Mitch Hedberg

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

The Healer, catchphrase, and environmental attitude

GOD heals everything, not necessarily the way you would like & there may be scars.
~ Advice

This book fills a much-needed gap.
~ Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

thinking of you, coffee, and theory vs reality

What other people think of you is none of your business.
~ Advice

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
~ Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

Forgiveness, the future, rules for writing

Forgive everyone for everything.
~ Advice

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
~ W. Somerset Maugham

Perpective, Brotherhood

Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
~ Advice

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
~ Jane Wyman

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there."
~ Jef Mallett

Happiness, Accomplishments and Wonder

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
~ Advice

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do.
~ Garfield (after seeing Odie sitting on a tree branch.)

One must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know.
~ Victor Weisskopf, The Privilege of Being a Physicist

No comparisons

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
~ Advice

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato

Dwell in possibility.
~ Emily Dickinson

The past, and hope in failure

Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
~ Advice

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats

Arguments, Silver Lining, Good Intentions

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
~ Advice

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
~ Peter Drucker

Seriously, folks - Freedom, and Rhythm

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
~ Advice

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis Presley

Avoiding Lazy Habits

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
~ Advice

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein

life

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
~Advice

We are wiser than we know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Laughter, sorrow, knowledge

Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
~Advice

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
~ George Bernard Shaw

eating habits, one-liner, and liberty

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
~ Advice

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
~ Henny Youngman

Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
~ William Penn

Learn from the possibilities of life - and laugh

Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
~ Advice

People do great things by focusing on their possibilities, not by dwelling on their limitations.
~ Henry Kissinger

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~ W. H. Auden

Wasted energy, Honesty, Fine Quotations

Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
~ Advice

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~ Arthur C. Clarke

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
~ Joseph Roux

Declutter, Learn, and Shine!

Clear your clutter from your house, your car, your desk and let new and flowing energy into your life.
~ Advice

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.
~ James Thurber

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
~ Ray Bradbury

Encountering minds, and who is education for?

Try to make at least three people smile each day.
~ Advice

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education is that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
~ Mark Twain

Truth, Persistence

Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, wild Alaskan salmon, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
~Advice

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
~ John Calvin Coolidge

Experimentation

Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
~ Advice

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
~ Anonymous

Dreaming, Logic and Saying the Right Thing

Dream more while you are awake.
~ Advice

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
~ Laurence J. Peter

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
~ George Bernard Shaw