appreciation quotes for employees

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. ~Abel Stevens



Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. ~Moorish Proverb



Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. ~Dr SunWolf



In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting"



I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof, with the right to play among them freely, according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against the thistles. And I devise to children the yellow shores of creeks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, with the dragon flies that skim the surface of said waters, and and the odors of the willows that dip into said waters, and the white clouds that float on high above the giant trees. ~Williston Fish, "A Last Will," 1898



And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"



Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. ~Agnes Repplier



You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. ~Jeanette Rankin



Whatever the American's are proud of - whatever they consider to be particularly good, useful, brilliant, or characteristic of themselves or their climate, they designate, half in jest, though scarcely half in earnest, as an "institution." Thus the memory of George Washington... is an institution; the Falls of Niagara are an institution; the Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrim Fathers first set foot, is an institution...; "Sweet potatoes" are an institution, and Pumpkin (or Punkin) pie is an institution; ...squash is an institution; Bunker Hill is an institution; and the firemen of New York are a great institution. ~Charles Mackay, Life and Liberty in America, 1850



We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ~Abraham Lincoln



I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser. ~Arnold Palmer



Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ~H.H. "Breaker" Morant



The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. ~John Jay Chapman



Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur. ~Jerry Seinfeld



Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~G.K. Chesterton



Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore



Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. ~Ansel Adams



Curmudgeon: anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner (source: Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Jon Winokur).