QUOTES ABOUT HELPFUL HINTS AND STRATEGIES



HELPFUL HINTS & STRATEGIES

  1. "If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it." -- Leo Rosten
  2. "Live like there's no tomorrow; learn like you'll live forever." -- author unknown
  3. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." -- St. Exupery in The Little Prince
  4. "It's a good idea to obey all the rules while you're young, just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old." -- Mark Twain
  5. "There is so much more to everyone you will ever meet than will ever meet your eye." -- Fred Rogers, childrens' television host
  6. "Hope is the pillow of the world." -- African proverb
  7. "Treat the world well....It was not given to you by your parents...It was lent to you by your children." -- Kenyan proverb
  8. "The soul is healed by being with children." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Chinese proverb
  10. "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him." -- Benjamin Franklin
  11. "You probably can have it all. Just not at the same time." -- Anna Quindlen
  12. "Anyone who has been able to sustain good work has had at least one person who has believed in him or her." -- Fred Rogers, children's television host
  13. "In all that you do, whatever you do, be kind." -- author unknown
  14. "There are only two things to aim for in life: first to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  15. "You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere; if only out of curiosity." -- Colin Powell
  16. "Romance is a state of mind. If you have the right mindset, you can make cleaning the bathroom romantic; if you have the wrong mindset, you can turn a moonlit stroll on the beach into a fight." -- Gregory Godek
  17. "I have found that the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." -- Harry S. Truman
  18. "The fool wanders -- the wise man travels." -- Thomas Fuller
  19. "Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves." -- Rilke
  20. "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together." -- Verna Kelly
  21. "Our minds need relaxation and give way unless we mix work with a little play." -- Moliere
  22. "Quien no aventura no cruza el mar." (s/he who doesn't venture doesn't cross the sea = Spanish proverb -- one of many taught to me by my high school Spanish teacher Mrs. Crane)
  23. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  24. "If I could say just one thing to parents, it would be simply that a child needs someone who believes in him no matter what he does." -- Alice Keliner
  25. "Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his 10 fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his 10 toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" -- Thoreau
  26. "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." -- George Washington Carver
  27. "The rain does not recognize anyone as a friend; it drencheth all equally." -- Ibo proverb
  28. "The game of life is like a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy." -- Florence Scovel Shinn
  29. "Live beyond the pain of reality with the dream of a bright tomorrow. Use hope and imagination as weapons of survival and progress. Use love to motivate you and oblige you to serve the human family." -- Jesse Jackson
  30. "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi
  31. "Life is like a ladder. Every step we take is either up or down." -- Forrest Gump
  32. "A lo hecho, pecho" (To what's done, courage) -- Spanish proverb
  33. "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." -- Elbert Hubbard
  34. "If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve year old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter." -- Margaret Mead
  35. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." -- Mark Twain
  36. "Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken." -- Horace Mann
  37. "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  38. "The ancestor of every action is a thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  39. "Put all your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET!" -- Mark Twain
  40. "It still holds true that man is uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities." -- Eric Kloffer
  41. "If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm." -- Bruce Barton
  42. "If you understand everything, you must be misinformed." -- Japanese proverb
  43. "The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler
  44. "It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end." -- Leonardo da Vinci
  45. "I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on these topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits." -- John Locke
  46. "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." -- Jules Renard
  47. "Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind." -- Henri Amel
  48. "Try everything once except incest and folk dancing." -- Sir Thomas Beecham
  49. "What really matters is whether the alphabet is used for the declaration of war or the description of a sunrise." -- Fred Rogers, childrens' television host
  50. "Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full." -- Henry Kissinger
  51. "Have no fear of perfection -- you'll never reach it." -- Salvador Dali
  52. "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
  53. "It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation." -- Dr. Rob Gibbert
  54. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves." -- Carl Jung
  55. "Hitch your wagon to a star." -- Emerson
  56. "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." -- Henry J. Kaiser
  57. "If you want to be remembered, do one thing superbly well." -- Saunders Norvell
  58. "One speck of rat dung spoils the whole pot of rice." -- Chinese proverb
  59. "No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit." -- Danish proverb
  60. "Don't believe everything you hear. Don't spend all you have. Don't sleep all you want." -- Dusty Dunn
  61. "How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward." -- Spanish proverb
  62. "TV is like the man who came to dinner." -- Fred Rogers, childrens' television host
  63. "Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt." -- author unknown
  64. "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." -- Dorothy Parker
  65. "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James
  66. "Our last garment is made with no pockets." -- Italian proverb
  67. "Rituals encase memories. They link to the past and present. They choreograph the dance of intimacy that family and friends perform. They give up access to one another." -- Wendy Wright
  68. "I never sleep cuz sleep is the cousin of death" -- Nas "New York State of Mind"
  69. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." -- Lt. Scott (Star Trek)
  70. "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong
  71. "To laugh often and much...to win the respect of intelligent people and the adoration of children...To know that one life has breathed a little better because you have lived...this to have succeeded" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  72. �I believe that the key to a better world for our children � and ourselves � is to reassert the importance of values and to encourage idealism.��Dr. Benjamin Spock
  73. "Friendship isn't a big thing--it's a million little things." --Brush Dance Lined Journal
  74. " Keep away from people who belittle your amibition. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." � Mark Twain
  75. �Learn to say �no�. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.� � Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  76. �When we are exhausted from volunteering, we are working.� � Anne Wilson Schaef
  77. "I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage. I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded." -- Erma Bombeck, from IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER, written after she found out she was dying from cancer
  78. �I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.� -- Jorge Luis Borges
  79. �If it�s not fun, why do it?� � Ben & Jerry�s Ice Cream bumpersticker
  80. �Just eat your ice cream while it�s on your plate�That�s my philosophy.� -- Thornton Wilder
  81. �Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?� � Friedrich Nietzche
  82. "There is joy in everything." -- Elmo of Sesame Street
  83. �When you sell a man a book, you don�t sell him 12 ounces of paper and glue � you sell him a whole new life.� � Christopher Morley
  84. �Journalism is the first rough draft of history.� � quote I saw at the Newseum in D.C�.forgot who it�s attributed to.
  85. �Elk are deer. Moose are deer. Deer are deer. Caribou are deer. An antelope isn�t a deer. Antelope are antelope.� - wisdom from a woman from Wyoming I met on Amtrak
  86. "I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody." -- Ben Franklin
  87. "As long as there are postmen, life will have zest." -- William James
  88. "Don't worry, be happy. Or worry, and then be happy." -- Telly of Sesame Street
  89. "When you get, give; when you learn, teach!" -- Oprah Winfrey
  90. sign at Atlantic City Miniature Golf: �If you think it�s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong ball.�
  91. Two funny (and questionably helpful) tips that I gained from a book on how to flirt that I was glancing through in the Self Improvement section of Barnes & Noble (I think they are questionable advice, but funny): 1) "[when you are in the grocery store] carry a pineapple -- everybody comments on pineapples." 2) "In a museum, you'll find infrared sensors protecting the vast majority of the paintings. If you get too close to the painting, the sensors will activate an alarm. Try activating an alarm (by accident, of course). At the very least, the guards will start talking to you."
  92. funny Metro North safety poster: "Dance through life. Walk through the station."
  93. "The subway is a trip -- you never know what you're going to get. It's like a blind date..." -- comedian at Gotham in NY
  94. "The pen is mightier than the sword, but keep a sword handy." -- NRA member, quoted from Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine
  95. �Video et taceo� -� I see but I say nothing (Elizabeth I�s motto)
  96. �The day will happen whether or not you get up.� � John Ciardi
  97. �When you come to a place where you have to go left or right, go straight ahead.� � Sister Ruth Benedict
  98. �There�s more to everyone you will ever meet than will ever meet your eye.� � Fred Rogers
  99. �Life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you�re gonna get.� � from the movie Forrest Gump
  100. "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." -- Ernest Hemingway
  101. �Every single person has an important story to tell, just as you do.� - Barbara Boxer
  102. �All man�s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.� � Blaise Pascal
  103. "Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment." - Horace, Roman poet and satirist
  104. "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." -- Alfred Night Whitehead
  105. "Never lose a chance to say a kind word." -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  106. "There is nothing to be gained by wishing you were someplace else or waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that." -- Jacob Javitz
  107. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." -- Confucius
  108. "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knwoing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
  109. "Do what you can where you are with what you have." -- Teddy Roosevelt
  110. "The best way out is always through." -- Robert Frost
  111. "Surround yousself with only people who are going to lift you higher." -- Oprah Winfrey



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