MOM'S FAVORITE QUOTATIONS

 

In looking through her notebooks after Mom died, I found her collection of quotations:

 

 "The more good we find to say about a person, the more good that person will become."

"Charity begins at home, and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise."

"Giving out the best today is the recipe for a better tomorrow."

"You'll be happier if you give people a bit of your heart rather than a piece of your mind."

"The vision to see, the faith to believe and the will to do will take you anywhere."

"One of the best things a person can have up his sleeve is a funny bone."

"There are two kinds of fishermen—those who insist they fish for sport and those who catch something."

"One of the greatest labor saving devices of today is tomorrow."

"To share with a friend is to see twice the beauty."

"See as a child sees—the joy, the wonder, the hope."

"More knowledge enters your head through open ears than through an open mouth."

"A house is built by human hands, but a home is built by human hearts."

"Kind words never wear out the tongue."

"Ideas bring in nothing unless carried out."

"If we don't appreciate what we have, we could be miserable in paradise."

"Do not let what you cannot do, interfere with what you can do."

"The trouble with experience is that it usually teaches you something you really didn't want to know."

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say.  I just watch what they do."

"Happiness consists not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess."

"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you can't do."

"Success comes in cans, not in can'ts."

"For some, the most satisfying kind of gardening is planting oneself in a lawn chair."

"Don't count your years.  Make your years count."

"Children need models more than they need critics."

"Only a child can catch a raindrop or see the value in puddles."

"Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."

"Love is the one commodity that multiplies when you give it away."

"Goals are dreams with deadlines."

"The federal income tax was introduced as a temporary measure—on February 25, 1913."

"Tact is the act of convincing people that they know more than you do."

"It's better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same."

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizons."

"Speak kind words and you'll hear kind echoes."

"It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart."

"There are three kinds of people:
those who make things happen,
those who watch things happen,
and those who wonder what happened."

"Make more friends.  Almost anyone will make a better friend than an enemy."

"Success lies in doing not what others consider to be great, but what you consider to be right."

"Make the most of yourself, for that's all there is of you."

"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down-to-earth when everything else is up in the air."

"Social Security:  A government guarantee of a steak in your old age—when your teeth are all gone."

"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts."

"Simplicity is making the journey through life with just enough baggage."

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself."

"Remember when TV bloopers were rare mistakes, not entire shows?"

"Never try to teach a pig to sing.  It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."

"All of us are smart at ages 5 and 18.  At 5 we know all the questions, and at 18 we know all the answers."

"The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it."

"We need a few clouds in our lives to make beautiful sunsets."

"Recall it as often as you wish—a happy memory never wears out."

"Children may close their ears to advice, but they open their eyes to example."

"People who do things that count never stop to count them."

"Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."

"An attitude of gratitude can make your life a beatitude."

"Character is like the foundation of a house—it's below the surface."

"Some people treat God like a lawyer—they go to Him only when they're in trouble."

"When you fly, think of only three things:  Faith, hope, and gravity."

"Age is mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

"The world turns aside to let any man pass who is sure where he's going."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it."

"Safety is not the absence of danger but the presence of God."

"Why didn't Noah just swat those two flies?"

"The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 a.m.  The younger generation doesn't think much of it either."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"A smile is a light in your face to show your heart is at home."

"The talents we are given are our gift from God. 
How we use them is our gift to God."

"Feed your faith and your worries will starve to death."

"There is no limit to the good you can do in this world if you don't care who gets the credit."

"He who hesitates gets left-overs."

"Worrying about cholesterol is a leading cause of high blood pressure."

"Don't worry about things you are powerless to change."

"Respect other people whether they agree with you or not."

Make just one word.
D N R O S U W T E J O

"Don't take tomorrow to bed with you."

"You can't get rid of your temper by losing it."

"Keep smiling.  It makes people wonder what you've been up to."