Dave’s Daily Quotes

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ~ Karen Kaiser Clark

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. ~ Jacob M. Braude

When you’re through changing, you’re through. ~ Bruce Barton

People can cry much easier than they can change. ~ James Baldwin

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. ~ James Baldwin

If the pace of change outside your farm gate is greater than the pace of change inside the gate, then there is a problem. ~ Pita Alexander

People don’t change because they see the light. They change because they feel the heat. ~ Caroline Schoeder ++

At first I thought my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it’s actually a downward spiral. ~ Tom Ryan

As I get older I realize it is the small things that make us happy.  But I don’t know if that’s wisdom from age or the constant barrage of life’s disappointments that make you set the bar really low. ~ Laura Hayden

I’m sixty years of age. That’s 16 Celsius.  ~ George Carlin    ++

I’m so old when I order a three-minute egg they make me pay up front.  ~ Henry Youngman

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. ~ Victor Hugo

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~ Jim Fiebig    ++

My childhood was rough. Once for my birthday, my old man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.  ~ Rodney Dangerfield

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ~ African proverb (via Mike Gilbert)

People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door.  ~ Morey Amsterdam

I was asking my friend who has children, “What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me.” And she said, “What do you mean, ‘if’?”  ~ Rita Rudner

Never use yourself as your own role model.

In three billion years, the sun will still burn out.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~ John Locke

You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can only go halfway into a dark forest, then you are coming out of the other side. ~ Chinese proverb

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. ~ Naomi Judd

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach