Quotes, Quips, Mottos

[mister_mojorisin]

It appears that most posters have a favorite quote, quip or motto attached to their signatures, myself included.

What is your favorite quote? Why is it your favorite quote? You don't have to give a reason why it is, you can simply tell us and let our thoughts interpret its message.

I will start this thread with the following quote from William Shakespeare.....

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us loss the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

[Paul]

I'll take you up on your proposal. I have a motto of my own that I am generally successful at living by:

"Say what you mean, mean what you say and do what you promise to do."

If you follow this rule, you increase congruency of actions with words, your sense of personal integrity increases which leads to good self esteem.

Your thoughts?

[JoeKinley]

My motto is that you should always follow your heart.

Another motto for myself is that communication is the key to success in friendships and partnerships .. just be truthfull and honest to anybody and you will live a better life

[songwriter]

No, or I may say many. Meaning really many...
The songs are full of them.
"And in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take" is an example. It's the last thing the Beatles put on record.

[Nico Kempe]

to name a few:
"work to live, don't live to work" and "live now, for tomorrow you'll find that live is no longer there, and then you haven't lived"

[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?

It's my favourite quote and one I live by daily because it really shook me when I first heard it. I realised that I'd lived for years with my dreams on hold because following them wasn't the sensible or expected thing to do. When I heard this quote it really hit me that I only had once chance at life and I had to make the most of it right now, not later, and certainly not in 10 or 20 years time when it was "safe" to quit the steady well-paying job and pursue my dream of being a full-time illustrator.

Within weeks of hearing that quote (I think it was on a Brian Johnson podcast from memory) I'd left my safe job and begun my own business as an illustrator (in this economic climate, crazy I know!). It has turned my whole life around. I now have a reason to get up in the morning, and if I died tomorrow the only regret I'd have is not being able to see where my dreams eventually take me, I certainly wouldn't regret not living them because I'm living them right now.

Anyway that's my absolute favourite quote Another favourite is one day at a time and Love is the action of serving people without any desire to receive anything back.

[Meilyne]

I'm still new to this site and to the philosophy of the power of positive thinking, etc. but I've always kept in my mind a quote from the cult movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show ...

"Don't dream it, be it."

I am currently trying to put this to practice with some significant weight loss and to that effect have started a website and journal that hopefully will be a great motivator towards achieving my goal.

Diary of a Fat White Woman - My Struggles with Food Addiction

Take care everyone and good luck with all your dreams.

[Michelle]

I want to sing like birds sing; not worrying who listens or what they think.

Rumi


Go, go, go beyond, completely go beyond, be found in enlightenment, hail.

Heart Sutra

[Earendil]

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

- Rudyard Kipling

[madgeylou]

"we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

- willy wonka

[Lucas]

"We must become the change we want to see in the world" - Gandhi

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible" - M.C. Escher

[Wanderer]

See signature
David Gemmel is an excellent author and I would recommend him to anyone looking for quotes about good/evil or just for an incredible read
First chronicles of Druss the Legend is a good starting point

[Henry]

"Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive."

[A.K.Light]

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

-Emerson

[Eldoech]

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

- Mother Teresa

[JohnnyJimJams]

Originally Posted by Eldoech

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

- Mother Teresa

That is a very cool quote to live by. Talk about extreme.... let no-one....

[RT Wolf]

I have different quotations for different times and levels of cosnciousness:

The one right now is:

"Leave mediocrity to the masses."

[mister_mojorisin]

I know of few people who had so much to say in such a short life. Thoreau never reached the age of 50 but has had such an influence on so many people. Here is another quote that is very much aligned with Steve's motto of 'Live Consciously'.

Enjoy.....

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

[Atom]

Never Give Up !

[Oliblom]

At the moment mine is in my signature - Dr Wayne W Dyer wrote this in the foward to "Ask and it is Given - Learning to Manifest your Desire " by Esther & Jerry Hicks (though I think it is a statemnt he has been using for a long time now.)..........anyway a really fascinating book that I found out about through Steve's site! Do give it a read if you haven't yet.

[Chris]

Something I live by is a quote in one of Stephen Covey's books (I forget which one). It's actually a quote from a book that he himself read and found inspiring. One of those "aha" moments. It is an inspiring and empowering concept to understand!

"Between stimulus and response is a space.

In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response.

In these choices lie our growth and our happiness."

[fourthdan]

"Intention without discipline is delusion"
"keep the faith"

[M13]

I have many but the one that sticks out the last few months is something like:

Those who speak many words will have them disapate quickly. Better to speak a few words and make them last a long time.

[dorothy hanna]

A quote from ancient India (don't know who originated it, but it goes something like this:
"Religion is like a finger pointing at the moon. But instead of looking at the moon, many argue about which finger is doing the pointing".

[TechnoGuyRob]

I like this quote:

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

[Kristina]

'Thrive don't just survive!'

[Adam]

Fear, more than anger, is the enemy to peace.

Also, "We are no longer the Knights Who Say Ni. We are now the Knights Who Say Echi Echi Echi Echi Pikang, Zoom-boing, Wrorl (ni)." In other words, don't put your ego in a label.

[Michael Chui]

Originally Posted by dorothy hanna

A quote from ancient India (don't know who originated it, but it goes something like this:
"Religion is like a finger pointing at the moon. But instead of looking at the moon, many argue about which finger is doing the pointing".

"Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory." -- Bruce Lee

[KittyG]

If you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.
-Goethe


Took me a while to remember that once I had scrolled down, reading the others


Kat

[dmanning]

Here are a couple of quotes that guide my own actions:

"The time to make up your mind about people is never."
The Philadelphia Story - Katherine Hepburn

"A life without cause is a life without effect."
Barbarella - David Hemmings