Erma Bombeck Quotes

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Erma Bombeck

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• I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
  • More

• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • May
  • Opportunity
  • inspirational

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• We convince by our presence.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • inspirational
  • Convince
  • Our

• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Success

• Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Live
  • Business
  • Growth

• The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

  

  Umar
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • inspirational

• Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Mind
  • Learning
  • inspirational

• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• The more you mature, you realize that this imperfections make your more beautiful.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational
  • Realizing

• When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Suffering

• Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Past
  • Running
  • inspirational

• If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Moving
  • inspirational

• What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • inspirational
  • Importance

• When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Done
  • Action

• I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

  

  Savannah Guthrie
  • Different
  • inspirational
  • Amusement

• In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

  

  Major Owens
  • Money
  • Society
  • Preparation

• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

  

  George Washington
  • Education
  • Wisdom
  • Reason

• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Year
  • Prove

• Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • inspirational
  • Humor