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.

[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!

[Kayceezharold]

My favorite role models once said...

"Jump, and grow your wings on the way down!"

"Not taking risk is a habit, taking risks is a lifestyle!"

"It takes teamwork, to make your dream work!"



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Kayceezharold
Earn As You Learn!
The World Thru Kayceez Eyes

[ramZsax]

"When you do things with limited beliefs, they manifest limited results"
-Kenny Werner, Jazz Piano player

I really like this quote, and it had a huge effect on me becuase I read this WAY before I had even heard of about Intention Manifestation or LoA.

[JohnPlace]

One of my favorite quotes from Abraham Maslow is, “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

Also from Maslow: "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."

[Dusty]

"Life expands in proportion to one's courage."
-Anais Nin

"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music."
-Sufi master Hafiz

[amatracey]

I am a Carl Roger's fan I really like is by him.

"Yet the paradoxical aspect of my experience is that the more I am simply willing to be myself, in all this complexity of life and the more I am willing to understand and accept the realities in myself and in the other person, the more change seems to be stirred up.
It is a very paradoxical thing - that to the degree that each one of us is willing to be himself, then he finds not only himself changing; but he finds the other people to whom he relates are also changing"

[ashok]

Hi,

I post some of my personal quotes here ... tell me if you like it ...

"The major problem in solving a problem is to stick with those people who haven't solved the problem themselves."

"Death is nature's way of motivating us to do something meaningful before life expires"

"Life is very boring if you follow protocols. Life is productive but not interesting if you follow a routine. Life is a standstill if you dont speak to living beings"

- Ashok

[Terri Powell]

"Nothing and no one is greater than or lesser than the self." -The Wonders

"Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it." -The Wonders

(which is similar to Eleanor Roosevelt's comment "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" but far vaster.)

Great quotes friends, thanks for sharing.