What are Your Favorite Quotes?

[techgal]

Hey Guys,

I love quotes and I thought it would be cool if we could all share our favorites.
Here are some of mine:


"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
~ Zig Ziglar

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
~ Mahatma Ghandi

"Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing."
~ Helen Keller

- Kim

[Alex]

“The moment I start hating man, I become his slave” ~ By Dr. McMillen. I wrote about it in my post Why You Should Just Get Over It and mentioned how it helps me to gain a little bit more time and sanity in my life, but not letting other people stress me out.

[kozan]

"From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude, that it's possible to design and live an extraordinary life."
~ Jim Rohn

My mantra for 2007

[Takuin Minamoto]

Slavador Dali was once asked in an interview if he took drugs in order to create his most fantastic works. His answer?

"I don't do drugs. I AM drugs."

Nice.

And a bonus...

"I drank what?" Socrates

[Stargirl]

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Unknown

Spend the night dreaming. Spend the day fulfilling those dreams.
Source Unknown

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

"I'm alive," he said to the boy, as they ate a bunch of dates one night, with no fires and no moon. "When I'm eating, that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day to die as any other."
"Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now."
- The Alchemist


The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michaelangelo

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein


Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every
man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
Kirsten Zambucka


Yeah, I have a lot .

[ahimel]

"Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Guard your honor; let your reputation fall where it may. And outlive the bastards." -Aral Vorkosigan, A Civil Campaign

"I have a theory that says no one can tell the difference between a GREAT idea and a stupid one...People can often tell the difference between a run-of-the-mill "GOOD" idea and a bad idea. But GREAT ideas often look identical to stupid ones right up until the moment they work. "
- Scott Adams

[Believer]

This thread wouldn't be the same without some Bruce Lee quotes.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible.

If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

and my personal favorite:

To me, the function and duty of a quality human is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Legend.

[Lallymac]

"Within every adversity lies the kernel of even greater potential" Napolean Hill

Lallymac

[da1prophet]

Originally Posted by Believer

This thread wouldn't be the same without some Bruce Lee quotes.













and my personal favorite:



Legend.

Killer Bruce Lee quotes...not to shamelessly plug my own website, but I've got a "featured quote" that loads everytime you visit (or, for that matter, refresh the main page). I've got over 400 of my favorite quotes so listed ranging from the funny to the profound.

The Prophet's Place--sophisticated diversions for intelligent men

Here's the random quote that just loaded when I visited my site:

“In life, you don’t want to be just lucky; you want to give yourself the edge to win every time” --Evel Knievel

[da1prophet]

"I'm not wearing a fireproof suit and sitting in front of a keg of nitro-fuel just to say "Oh Boy..second place" --drag racer Joe Amato

[da1prophet]

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." --Mark Twain

[kmr321]

Not dead, Cant quit.

Pain to power.

Energy and persistence conquers all things

[newdad]

"Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration" -Frank Herbert Dune

[John P]

I have a notepad file on my desktop where I keep all the good quotes that I come across. Here are a couple of my favorite.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
-- Helen Hayes

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those that hustle.
-- Abraham Lincoln
(Love that one )

[alexyeo]

One of my favorites...

Pity is the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He has picked out a favorite place to feed his body but doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind.
- Jim Rohn

[JamesT]

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed."

-- Michael Jordan

[marymary]

"The only way out, is through."

have heard it attributed to several different sources...but it inspires when procrastinating or afraid...

and my signature...one of my favorites.

[takkaria]

enlightenment is choice.
be fearless.
there is no way to love: love is the way.
any human relationship that takes its existence for granted is ultimately doomed.

That last one is by our very own Steve, only the other day, but I like it right now.

[Sworn]

One that I like is: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" but I don't know who came up with that one.

Anyone? (no punt intended)

[JiriNovotny]

"Patience is for the dead"
- Reptilian Xindi

Patience has it's place, but if you can do something now, don't wait

[bylto]

Some of my favourites.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change - Wayne Dyer

You choose your life, you choose all the conditions of your life when you choose the thoughts upon which you allow your mind to dwell. Thought is the real causative force in life and there is no other. You cannot have one kind of mind and other kind of environment. This means you cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged, nor - and this is the supreme key to life - can you change your mind without your environment changing too - Emmet Fox - The 7 day Mental Diet

The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure. There could be no object in burning gold after the dross has been removed - James Allen - As A Man Thinketh

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows- John Powell

Whatsoever you pray for, believe that you have received it, and you will receive it - Jesus. Mark 10:24

The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the bidding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. Disease and health, like circumstance, are rooted in thought- James Allen - As a Man Thinketh

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world - The Buddha

[ExploreManagement]

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" (Eleanor Roosevelt)

[Another Jen]

"That voice inside your head is not the voice of God - it just sounds like it thinks it is."
(Cheri Huber)

[Xieta]

"Imagine you were given 1440$ every morning. You can do whatever you want with them. Give them to somebody, enjoy them, burn them up. But when the day is over, what you haven't spent will disappear. Well, that's how life works. The only difference is that what you find each morning are 1440 minutes. What are you going to do with them?"

It's from a Mercedes Benz TV spot, I'm translating from Spanish, but you get the idea...

[Desiderata]

A finished man of the world must eat every apple once. - Emerson

With all the sham, drudgery, and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful and strive to be happy.
-Max Ehrmann "Desiderata"

[lifeinoleg]

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter F. Drucker (though I first heard it in a hip-hop lyric by Sixx John)

[rene_stpierre]

I'm not sure who said this but it is one Jack Canfield uses:

"You can't hire other people to do your push-ups for you"

René

[Freelancer]

I do not spread rumors I create them.

-Unknown darkworker.


I wonder if somebody can guess where I got that one !

[TomLeDree]

“The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

I also like the one

"The problem with living fast is you get to the end quicker"



Tom LeDree

[C.F. Jackson]

"Don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't
do something . . . You got a dream, you gotta
protect it . . . If you want something, go get
it. Period."

Chris Gardner - (The Pursuit of Happyness)

Continue to make this the best day ever!

Won't Be Denied!
C.F. Jackson

Lighting 1,000 Dreams Worldwide!