motivation

On Milton Berle

HUMOR:

“I’m 83, and I feel like a 20-year-old, but unfortunately there’s never one around.”

“I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he’s working.”

“Laughter is an instant vacation.” 

OPTIMISM:

“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”

On Independence Day

“From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.”

Samuel F. Smith, “America”

“This, then, is the state of the union:  free and restless, growing and full of hope.  So it was in the beginning.  So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.”  

Lyndon B. Johnson

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

Erma Bombeck