Quotes, Quips, Mottos

[Tasaio]

Demotivators

There are some great quotes here.

[Perseus]

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has. – Confucius

Knowledge is power. - Thomas Hobbes

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. - Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. - Bruce Lee

[Isabelle]

"Progress, not perfection in 2007"

It is from Flylady.... I really think that doing a little everyday (babysteps) is a sure way to get where you want to be. As in the secret, when they explain that you can drive from A to B seeing just a few km ahead.... It also reminds me about Kaizen, what Tony Robbins calls CANI...

Doing little things everyday to make your life better... It may be slow, but this way, you are sure to reach your goal someday...

When I turn cold turkey with something, I crash down and burn.

[bellbird]

I know of some that run in my family:
"Trust in Allah but always tie your camel" (we're not islamic but the saying still apllies)
what an old auntie used to say:
" You will have to be alive to get to the place where you die first."

and my 'own': carpe diem, seize the day
PS: Dorothy Hannah that quote is brilliant, thank you.
PS2: I love reading the books Michael Leunig writes, they're so simple and profound all the same. beautiful.

[Ladan]

I have a collection of inspiring quotes that I love. Many of them has become my motto in life and have helped me succeed to get through even the most difficult situations in my life.

Here are 2 of my favorite quotes:

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist."
-- Jack London

"If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings."
-- Susan Polis Schultz

[cordis]

Originally Posted by Alarin

My favourite quote is Life is not a dress rehearsal. I don't know who said it although Google reveals a lot of books by that title, does anyone know the author?[/i].

It's a bit longer and goes like this;

"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." ~ Lucinda Basset ~

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." ~ James Branch Cabell ~

[JHL]

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight quior
I have tried in my way to be free
~ Lenoard Cohen ~

[Melanie]

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti

[Bonkers]

The quote I live by:

"Listen to experts, the'll tell you what you can't do and why. Then do it"

someone telling me something can't be done always motivates me to try harder just to prove them wrong.

And three that I've been applying recently (because I lack in motivation):

"You don't have to get it right. JUST GET IT GOING"

"Just Do it"

and "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."

[BettyBoo]

Originally Posted by Eldoech

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better or happier.

- Mother Teresa

This is a great one!! And it leaves you better and happier as well, I would add.


I have many favorite quotes, one of them is in the signature

[Alvin]

I've set my main theme for this year is to live with courage. And I found this part of Steve Jobs' Stanford University 2005 commencement address to be very inspiring:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

[Liara Covert]

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
-Buddhist Proverb

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
-St. Francis de Sales

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
-Confucius

"Be the change you wish to see in teh world."
-Mahatma Gandhi

[trekr5]

In times of change
the learners will inherit the earth while the
learned find themselves beautifully equipped to
deal with a world that no longer exists

[christinaflores]

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hello...here are the quotes in which I strongly belive.
I am kinda new to this, so I just wanted to introduce myself.

Christina

[The Cloud]

Mine is the quote in my signature, which is my own. Every time I think that it has become obsolete, it redefines itself and shows that it is still perfect, just in a different way. It reminds me that everything I need to be I already am, and that part of me has always known that.