Quotes and Quips for December, 2011

Al’s Quotes and Quips for December

• “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:  It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” (William Faulkner, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com)
• “When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
• “We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.” (Will Rogers, quoted in Townhall.com)
• “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” (Malcolm Gladwell, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
• “If you worship money, you’ll always be poor.” (Tom Sachs, quoted in The Wall Street Journal)
• “The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” (Alvin Toffler, quoted in the Associated Press)
• “True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our inertia, laziness, boredom.” (D.L. Moody)
• “Never complain about your age to someone older than you.” (Carol Leifer, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
•  “The most important thing in life is to make sure you don’t forget the most important thing in life.” (Lee Iacocca, quoted in Sermon Fodder)
• “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” (Henry J. Kaiser, quoted in the Associated Press)
• “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”  (Thomas à Kempis)

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” (Albert Einstein, quoted in the Monterey County, Cali

f. Herald)

 

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!