Quotes March 24, 2021

Quotes courtesy of Henrik Edberg The Positivity Blog

“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
William Feather
 
 
 
 
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy
 
 
 
 
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
 
 
 
 
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
Jack Handey
 
 
 
 
“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s drama, repeat these word: Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
Polish Proverb
 
 
 
 
“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’”
Claude Pepper
 
 
 
 
“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”
Denis Waitley
 
 
 
 
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy
 
 
 
 
“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
Ethel Barrymore
 
 
 
 
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.”
Roy Orbison
 
 
 
 
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
Will Rogers
 
 
 
 
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Theodore Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
 
“You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
Sydney J. Harris
 
 
 
 
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin
 
 
 
 
“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is pre­determined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.”
Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
 
 
 
 
“I saw a study that said speaking in front of a crowd is considered the number one fear of the average person. Number two was death. This means to the average person, if you have to be at a funeral, you would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Jerry Seinfeld
 
 
 
 
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“It’s always darkest before the dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.”
Navjot Singh Sidhu
 
 
 
 
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
William James
 
 
 
 
“Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment.”
Betty White
 
 
 
 
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell

 
 
 
 
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
Chris Rock