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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
— Samuel Smiles
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.
–Jean Paul Richter
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
— Muriel Spark
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
— John Pierpont Morgan
The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right.
— Eknath Easwaran
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
— Robert Schuller
you don’t have to be great to start- but you have to start to be great.
— John C. Maxwell
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step- it rarely matters. Don’t gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
— John C. Maxwell
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
— Wayne Dyer
Jax, so touched!
“Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!”
AOB, I love that one!
the only problem with not doing anything is that you cant take a break from it. 😉
they can because they think they can
Virgil
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
— Enrique Jardiel Poncela
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
— Harold Taylor
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had?
— Henry James
Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.
— Wilma Askinas
Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain.
— Proverb, (Fiji)
One day at a time – this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.
— Ida Scott Taylor
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
— Maxwell Maltz
The most important question to ask on the job is not “what am I getting?” The most important question to ask is “What am I becoming?”
— Jim Rohn
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
— Buckminster Fuller
) Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
— George Washington Carver
My mentor said,”Let’s go do it” not “You go do it. “How powerful when someone says, “Lets!”
— Jim Rohn
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
— Whitney Young
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
A lofty idea must be had, not of what one is doing, but of what one may some day do. Otherwise there is no point in working on.
— Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas
There is a life-affirming spark within you which constantly nudges you towards saying yes to life.
— Linda MacDonald
There is a life-affirming spark within you which constantly nudges you towards saying yes to life.
— Linda MacDonald
Nature’s message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
— Buckminster Fuller
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov —->& special for dear moish of the YWN CR!
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
— Isaac Newton
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
— Ray Bradbury
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
— Jim Rohn
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
— Eric Hoffer
The most important things are hardest to say because words diminish them.
~a the real one~
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
— Samuel Insull
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
— Dick Gregory
o think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
— George Kneller
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though, they add up.
— Edward S. Finkelstein
Storms purify the atmosphere.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
— Robert Fritz
I’ve always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.
— Ann Richards
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
— Andy Warhol
We have come to fear failure too much. Failure is nothing more than the practice essential to success.
— Charles Kettering
ourage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
— Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Healing is not a matter of technique or mechanism; it is a work of spirit.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
) Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
— Cicero
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.
— Oprah Winfrey
Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
— Victor Frankl
We all have a few failures under our belt. It’s what makes us ready for the successes.
— Randy K. Milholland
he answer is in thy heart. Thee can always hear it, if thee listens for it.
— Elizabeth George Speare
Jax, good ones!
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
– Mark Twain
kapusta: thanks, i liked yours too!
more quotes to follow!
Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a month.
— William Dean Howells
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
— Lucinda Basset
You must not just know logically what you’ll lose if you fail and what you’ll get if you succeed… Because staying with your duties till the end requires a continual laser-like focus on why you need to keep going and stay on task.
— Mike Brescia
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.
— Donald Trump
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Berthold Auerbach
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
— Theodore Parker
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
— Oprah Winfrey
t is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
) Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.
— Hubert Humphrey
action breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
— Dale Carnegie
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
— Napoleon Hill
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
— Alfred Painter
To do two things at once is to do neither.
— Publilius Syrus
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.
— Kate Halverson
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
A lot of our friends complain about their retirement. We tell ’emto get a life.
— Larry Laser
A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.
–Ella Harris
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirementis planning.
— Earl Nightingale
Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
— Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, by A.A. Milne
Enjoy every retirement day as if it was your last and one day you will be right about it.
— Author Unknown
I’m not just retiring from the company, I’m also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron.
— Hartman Jule
I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!
— Author Unknown
I’ve been attending lots of seminars in my retirement. They’re called naps.
— Merri Brownworth
— Brooky Brown
Jax, someone just called me for a good quote (not insurance) and I came to the CR, and she took one of yours! thanx. 🙂
kapusta: your very welcome! glad to be of help! 🙂
Jax-
“I’m retired – goodbye tension, hello pension!” – great quote, I will B”N print it out for a recently retired relative.
Hey Jax! Maybe I’ll consider retiring early!
ICOT, your relative is lucky to have a pension. I think one day that quote won’t make sense, because no one will know what a pension is.
anon for this-
True.
Unless one has a civil service government job, a pension is increasingly rare.
A safe pension is even more uncommon.
My opinion is that someone starting a career search may want to look into a civil-service job because of the benefits it comes with (this can easily be an entire thread).
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
— Agatha Christie
— Peter’s Almanac
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.”
— Frieda Norris
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
— Hubert Humphrey
Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
— Ralph B
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
— Robert Orben
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
— Lily Tomlin
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
— A. Whitney Brown
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adam
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.
— Groucho Marx
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
— Les Dawson
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
— Dennis Miller
If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.
— Author Unknown
If you are not living life on the edge then you are taking up too much space.
— Author Unknown
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate.
— Dave Barry
Look how often the unexpected happens — yet we still never expect it.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
— Jimmy Durante
No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.
— Author Unknown
Nobody goes where the crowds are anymore. It’s too crowded.
— Yogi Berra
ICOT, I agree that very soon private industry pensions will be extinct. It’s true that private companies are attempting to renege on promised health benefits & pensions. I read in the Wall Street Journal years ago about one company that stopped paying in retirees’ health benefits by claiming that the “lifetime guarantee” clause did not apply to the retirees’ lifetime, but to the fund’s lifetime. Now that automakers are declaring bankruptcy the problem will only worsen, especially because the PBGC will probably run out of money soon.
Regarding civil service jobs, I’m not so sure those are a panacea either. I have a relative who has been working for the federal gov’t for about 20 years now. During that time, many positions in her department have been eliminated through attrition, so now she is doing the work of more people. At one point, her boss considered eliminating her dep’t & replacing them with contractors.
I worked for a defense contractor for a couple of years. I think the military-industrial complex will be a growth industry for a while, both for gov’t employees & contractors, though of course only the former will have pensions.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
— Hubert Humphrey
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
— Robert Orben
Look how often the unexpected happens — yet we still never expect it.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Jax, those are the best!! Keep them coming!
BS”D
I did not hang together with my sons enough when they were small. So, I hanged separately when they got older.
-Saddam Hussein
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
~Abe Lemons
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
~R.C. Sherriff
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez
A retired husband is often a wife’s full-time job.
~Ella Harris
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
~Doug Larson
Retirement is wonderful. It’s doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
~Gene Perret
mepal, why so down on the golden years?
Regarding pensions, while it is true that defined benefit pension plans are all but extinct (excepting those funded by the unlimited funds of the public), pensions themselves are not extinct or even on their way out. A 401K plan, 403b, 457 (b or f) etc, are all pension plans.
The difference is that in a traditional defined benefit pension plan, the company bears all the risk of fund growth. The companies have decided that the risk is too great. Therefore, defined contribution plans are the pension du jour. The investment risk is with the employee and the employer has no added responsibility when the black swans make an appearance. This is not necessarily a bad thing for employees.
aqueak, a pension is generally understood to mean a defined benefit plan, as in this definition from dictionary.com: “a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person’s surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained”. As you’ve noted, they’ve been replaced by defined contribution plans, but the matching funds that were provided by many empoyers to encourage contributions to these plans are also disappearing.
anon for this-
squeak-
Thanks to you both, I picked up two new terms today: “PBGC” and “black swans”.
I’m not saying civil service is the perfect job.
It’s just that nowadays when many of us have 201k’s that used to be 401k’s, the idea of a smaller salary and slower promotions doesn’t automatically disqualify a civil service job from consideration, as it did for many of us 20 – 25 years ago.
This is especially true as we get older and consider post-career expenses, including health insurance.
…one company that stopped paying in retirees’ health benefits by claiming that the “lifetime guarantee” clause did not apply to the retirees’ lifetime, but to the fund’s lifetime.
What a chutzpa! I hope they didn’t get away with it. (If they did, a “lifetime guarantee” on any product is pretty much worthless.)
I figured since the economy is shot we could use this one,
although famous enough that all of have heard it before.
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Here are some of my favorite quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue
you may never get over.
All would live long, but none would be old.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I am in the prime of senility.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place,
but far more difficult still,
to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
mepal: those came from the hilarious section of the quotes, glad you liked them! yours were awesome too!
bein_hasdorim: great ones!
A600KiloBear: good one!
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