Keep Calm and Carry on: Good Advice for Hard Times

By Various

Book Overview

Packed full of cheery motivational quotes, proverbs and mantras, Keep Calm and Carry On is an uplifting gift book meant to give you a boost through troubled times. Discovered on a poster created by the British Ministry of Information for British soldiers before World War II, the slogan still manages to strike a chord in our current difficult times.

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." --Robert Louis Stevenson

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." --Harry S. Truman

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740793403
• ISBN13: 9780740793400
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 3.9" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Inspirational quotes

Lots of good quotes some a little iffy and in need of reflection,. Reflection alway good so even the iffy quotes are thought provoking.

Keep Calm and Buy this Book

This is a very nice collection of motivational quotes, an excellent substitute for that tattered old Jokes for the John book on your bathroom table. Inspired by a British war poster, the quotes are in that stiff-upper-lip spirit, though the book includes comments from other individuals, such as the British-admiring but very French Voltaire. It's also small in size--suitable for carrying in a purse (or murse) and reading in fleeting moments. There's not enough text to see you through an airline flight. Buy and enjoy.

Tasteful and interesting quotations

There is nothing original in this book. It is a small collection of sayings , one to a page. The theme is the quotations are to help the reader keep calm, and go on through the financial crisis. I do not know if it will do that for anyone. I am not sure that all the quotations are directly connected to the subject. Yet I liked this little collection a lot. Why? The quotations were good ones, interesting ones, often humorous. Whoever made the selection had in my judgment, very fine taste. Here is a small sampler. "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner then you have learned how to live." Lin Yutang "You can fool all the people all the time, if the Advertising is right and the Budget big enough." Joseph E.Levine "What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens." Benjamin Disraeli "If you don't succeed and try and try again. Then stop. Why to be a damned fool.' W.C. Fields " A bank will only lend you money if you can prove to them that you don't need it.' Bob Hope And the most sustaining quotation in the book. " The best remedy for those who are lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the Heavens, nature and God because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. " Anne Frank