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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

It’s always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

You’re no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you’re too good to be an assistant.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. 

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.  But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.  

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods.  But he cannot save them from fools. 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.  The next best time is now. 

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night. 

I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.  They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! 

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. 

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. 

No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. 

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. 

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation’s need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted. 

 

 

 

 

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. 

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. 

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. 

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are written by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.  
The best part of happiness is the pines. 

Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good.  

If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today.  

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree. 

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold. 

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks. 

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. 

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. 

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.  The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. 

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. 

It’s always been and always will be the same in the world:  The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. 

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. 

How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another.  Thank you. 

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.  It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. 

              
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. 

You’re no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you’re too good to be an assistant. 

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. 

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. 

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. 

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.  These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. 

Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.  Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.  They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune. 

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. 

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. 

 

 

 

 

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . ., not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.

New Year’s Eve, where old acquaintance be forgot…Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Your Merry Christmas may depend on what others do for you. But your Happy New Year depends on what you do for others.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

I’m a little bit older, a little bit wiser, a little bit rounder, but still none the wiser.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions!

A weasel comes to say “Happy New Year” to the chickens.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

New Year’s Eve, where old acquaintance be forgot…Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

He object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.

A health to you, a wealth to you,
And the best that life can give to you.

Here’s wishing you more happiness
Than all my words can tell,
Not just alone for New Years Eve
But for all the year as well.

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

It is better to spend money like there’s no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there’s no money.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukka’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ‘Merry Christmas!’ or ‘Happy Hanukka!’ or (to the atheists) ‘Look out for the wall!

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first – your money or your feet.

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

You know you’re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

How do you know Santa has to be a man?
No woman is going to wear the same outfit year after year.

Good King Wenceslas phoned for a pizza.
The salesgirl asked him, ‘Do you want your usual? Deep pan, crisp and even?

You know you’re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.