Quotes for December

"If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!" W. Clement Stone

" If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." Pat Riley

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention." Richard Moss

"Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow." Swedish Proverb

"The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much of intermittent gloom." Margaret Drabble

"Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable." Joanna Field

"Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose -- these are the things that mar or bless human happiness." Joseph Fort Newton

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping." Claudius Claudianus

"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself -- forget about the impression you are trying to make." Dale Carnegie

"Appreciate life instead of resisting it." Judy Tatelbaum

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Sherlock Holmes

"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score." Bobby Hull

"Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent." Spanish Proverb

"If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer." St. John Chrysostom

"A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality." Pindar

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them." George Eliot

"Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." St. Francis De Sales

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind." John Neal

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Albert Einstein

"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted." Samuel Smiles

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharlal Nehru

"A stumble may prevent a fall." English Proverb

"As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest." Charles Joseph

"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else." Ivern Ball

"Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you practice is what you manifest." Grace Speare

"Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present." Sir John Lubbock

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves." Bruce Grocott

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment." Marcus Annaeus Seneca

"When facing impossible conditions, sometimes it is in your best interests to retreat." Confucius

"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." Edgar Watson Howe

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." Robertson Davies

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." Herbert Spencer

"He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical." G. K. Chesterton

"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about." Sam Ewing

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." Dame Rose Macaulay

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." Thomas H. Huxley

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." John Wooden

"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you." Calvin Coolidge

"When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under." Rosellen Brown