Art Linkletter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
-- Art Linkletter

#Good Life #Thinking #Giving
Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
-- Art Linkletter

#Positive #Attitude #Optimistic
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
-- Art Linkletter

#Funny #Children #Parenting
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.
-- Art Linkletter

#Inspirational #Trying
Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
-- Art Linkletter

#Kids #Marijuana #Empathy
Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.
-- Art Linkletter

#Children #Knowing #Adults
And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.
-- Art Linkletter

#Laughter #Mean #Thinking
Kids do say the darndest things
-- Art Linkletter

#Kids
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes
-- Art Linkletter

#Jobs #Depth #Pay
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
-- Art Linkletter

#Dog #Motherhood #People
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
-- Art Linkletter

#Life #Men #Childhood
No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.
-- Art Linkletter

#Needs #Aging #Grows
Committees are to get everybody together and homogenize their thinking.
-- Art Linkletter

#Thinking #Together #Committees
I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters
-- Art Linkletter

#Thinking #Matter #Today
A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.
-- Art Linkletter

#Better Days
Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well
-- Art Linkletter

#Ideas #People #Hula
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
-- Art Linkletter

#College #Wonderful
I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
-- Art Linkletter

#Hobos #Poor #Grew Up
If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.
-- Art Linkletter

#Memories #Enough #Your Future
Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
-- Art Linkletter

#Music #Towns #Reason
In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
-- Art Linkletter

#Song #Light #Secret
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.
-- Art Linkletter

#Patriotic #Grandchildren #Names
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.
-- Art Linkletter

#Mother #Country #Dad
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
-- Art Linkletter

#Philosophy #People #Golden
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
-- Art Linkletter

#Children #Two #People
Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
-- Art Linkletter

#Fun #Accomplishment #Curiosity
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given ether. As he was coming out of the anesthetic a fire broke out in the building next door. As the flames began to show through the hospital windows the nurse pulled the shades down. She didn't want the preacher to think his operation had been a failure.
-- Art Linkletter

#Time #War #Thinking
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
-- Art Linkletter

#Learning #Hundred
My age now, like my age 20 years ago, marks the year in which I was born. That's all.
-- Art Linkletter

#Years #Age #Born

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