What's Your Favorite Quote?

[Tiger]

"He is no fool who gives what
he cannot keep to gain what
he can never lose".


~ Jim Elliot

[Sandycmy]

If your bladder is full, you got to piss!
...Unknown

[John Rogers]

"I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it."
- Maynard G. Krebs

John

[internetmarketer99]

"The Good is the enemy of the Best"

"Sure, a lot of it is luck. But it seems the more I practice, the luckier I get"

Mark

[Greg124]

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy Dufresne - The Shawshank Redemption.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to obtain a little security,deserve neither and will lose both.
Benjamin Franklin.

Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
Walter P. Chrysle.

[gjabiz]

"Where the head goes...

the body follows."

And there is plenty of proof on this forum.

[jacktackett]

Originally Posted by Eric Johnson

Have no idea who said this originally but here goes...

Build a man a fire and you will keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life.

I believe this is from one of Terry Pratchet's color of magic novels.

I keep a list of fav sayings so here they are - and some are from fellow Warriors:


"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."
Ignacio Estrada

I’m not a religious man, but to realize you might be the answer to someone’s prayers
is a powerful thing.

Earl Nightingale defines success as the pursuit of a worthy goal. G

Caveat venditor is Latin for let the seller beware

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

I drank What? --Socrates

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog,
conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall,
set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook
a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Samuel Beckett, ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the
human race."
- Calvin Coolidge

"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
- Wayne Gretzky

In order to have a Cause, there must be an Enemy.
--Paul Myers

I swear eternal hostility against all tyranny over the minds of men.
--Thomas Jefferson

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it! / Boldness has genius, power and magic in it
--Goethe

I shall be telling this with a sigh; Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--Robert Frost

A Good Parent creates good memories,
A Bad Parent creates bad memories,
--Robert Allen

Those who sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither.
--Ben Franklin

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first
thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." These
words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie -- as a wisdom, and warning. The first
time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged.
--Capt. Jean Luc Picard (STNG)

"Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire
and he will be warm for the rest of his life"
--Terry Pratchett

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did do."
--Mark Twain

"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the
last."
--Dr Jerry Pournelle

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but
rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally
worn out, and loudly proclaiming --
"WOW! What a Ride!"
--Jeffrey Mazza


"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Winston Churchill


"You can get anything in life you want, if you'll
just help enough other people get what they want." Zig Ziglar


"Money may not buy happiness, but you can buy a damn big yacht and sail right up close to it." --David Lee Roth

"If you believe you can, you're right. If you believe you cannot, you are also right." --Henry Ford

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,
it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
-Patrick Henry-

"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise."
-- Larry Wall in <1991Nov13.194420.28091@netlabs.com>

Obviously I was either onto something, or on something.
-- Larry Wall on the creation of Perl

Integrity is what happens when NO ONE is watching.
Dr. Mani (Money.Power.Wisdom - The Scoble ‘Face-Off’ : Things a Blogger with Influence Should NOT Do!)

Shakespeare wrote:
"Our doubts are traitors and let us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."

some great 'Laws' to live by:
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design


"You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world
and give your learning back to the people."
Mariah Watkins

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton.

[timesaver22]

"If you're willing to do for a year what others won't,
you can do for a lifetime what others CAN'T!"

[hibernate]

"Courage :When you are afraid, but you go ahead anyway."

[timpears]

These are some of my favorites. There are quite a few of them, but they are all so good. It is hard to believe they are all from the same person. He is an absolute genius I believe. :-)

"Smoking helps you lose weight -- one lung at a time!"

"Today, if you ask a car dealer to let you see something for 10 grand, he'll show you the door!"

"Medical insurance is what allows people to be ill at ease!"

"Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!"

"Thank's to the new welfare bill, the question "Paper or plastic?" now refers to many American's sleeping arrangements!"

"In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!"

"Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!"

"If opera is entertainment, then falling off a roof is transportation!"

"A college jock is someone who minds his build instead of vice versa!"

"The only advantage to living in the past is that the rents are much cheaper!"

"Getting old is when a narrow waist and a broad mind change places!"

"How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?"

"It takes one to know one -- and vice versa!"

"Nowadays, a balanced diet is when every McNugget weighs the same!"

"Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults!"

"A teacher is someone who talks in our sleep!"

"How come we choose from just two people for President, and fifty for Miss America?"

"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!"

"You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!"

"Blood is thicker than water... but it makes lousy lemonade!"

"The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!"

"A plastic surgeon's office the only place where no one gets offended when you pick your nose!"

The foregoing are all quotes from Alfred E. Newman (dates unknown) Mad Magazine for those that don't recognize the name.

[Ephrils]

This one always makes me feel better, especially like now, where a great project on the outset has now suddenly become "work":

"What would you do tomorrow if you knew you could not fail?"

[myob]

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

[mmurtha]

Here's another one of my favorite:

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Author: Helen Keller

Mary

[John Rowe]

• If at first you don't succeed... Then skydiving's not for you.
• If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
• Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield.
• Driver carries no cash, he's married.

[n\a]

"I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a great punishment like me upon you."

Gengis Khan

[HeySal]

Savage is he who saves himself.
Leonardo De Vinci

[Paul Myers]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

The way Gretzky said it was, "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."

Not sure who said it first. I've used that at the end of almost every issue of my newsletter for better than 10 years now.

My favorite?

"Choose again."


Paul

[Paul Buckley]

When all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done.


"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpiller calls the end of the world the Master calls a butterfly."--Richard Bach "Illusions"

"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"--GySgt Dan Daly, USMC -Belleau Wood, France 1918

[greff]

.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

This one I usually say out loud. I love it.

When asked by a reporter if he read the Bible, General George Patton responded:

"Every goddamn day."

[Dennis Sim]

"The more you give, the more you get..."

[Terry M.]

Content is Kong. As in the "King Kong".

- By John Reese

[JohnMcCabe]

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi

"Today, we go back to basics. Gentlemen, this is a football..." - Lombardi
"Coach, could you slow down a little?" Paul Hornung (HOF running back)

"Be normal, and the herd will accept you. Be deranged, and the herd will make you their leader" - Chris Titus

"How do you win a fight? Get up one more time than you're knocked down." - Unknown

"He who dies with the most toys, wins" - bumper sticker on a motor home, towing a boat, with two mountain bikes on a rack and a satellite dish on the roof...

And the four-word quote that has put more guys in the hospital than any others...

"Hey, y'all, watch this..."

[ariyes]

"any way any how"

[jensrsa]

I try to live by:

"If you worry you die, if you don't worry you die - so why worry" Alfred E Neuman (I think but it doesn't matter)

Jens

[John Rowe]

Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Vince Lombardi

That's a great quote John!

.

[Janet Sawyer]

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson from A Return to Love


My old days one -

To be or not to be - that is the question

William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

[Vince Runza Online]

From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce:

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The words erroneously repeated.

[James Liberty]

My all-time favorite:

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect"
-Mark Twain

[Hugh]

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
-- Matt Groening


There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
-- P.J. O'Rourke


If everything's under control, you're going too slow.
-- Mario Andretti

[Sam Rodrigo]

IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME...

[Jermaine Tabor]

Find a way or make a way.

Not sure who said it.

[Napa]

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates

[JohnMcCabe]

"Never drink alcohol to excess. It can cause you to shoot at tax collectors - and miss." - Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

"Make it work, people..." Tim Gunn, Project Runway

[Angela V. Edwards]

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes, along with the one Paul mentioned: Choose Again

Youth is not a period of time. It is a state of mind, a result of the will, a quality of the imagination, a victory of courage over timidity, and the taste of adventure over the love of comfort. A man doesn't grow old because he's lived a certain number of years, he grows old because he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skins, but deserting his ideals wrinkles his soul. Preoccupation, fears, doubts, and despair are dust before death. You will remain young as long as you are open to what is beautiful, good, great and receptive to the messages of other men and women and nature and of God. If one day you should become bitter, pessimistic, and gnawed by despair, may God have mercy on your old man's soul.
Douglas MacArthur

[locking]

"When people show you who they are, BELIEVE them."
Maya Angelou

[cbean]

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Kahlil Gibran

[incomefix]

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
-- Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859 - 1928 - Former Editor of the Los Angeles Times)

[cottpfoc]

"Do today what others don't, to have tomorrow what other's won't." ~ Johnny Wimbrey

[Tina M. Rideout]

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" -- Shampoo Commercial

"It is to nice of a day to be playing bad golf" -- My daughter

Tina

[Tinkerbell]

"For Dreams To Come True Someone Has To Have Them"

[bluesguy]

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" - Vito Corleone (The Godfather)

Apply this to your marketing efforts :>

[Jose Delgado]

"To be or not to be, that is the question." -by IDontKnow.

Wait, did that make sense?

[Dontrell Lyons]

I have a TON of qoutes but this one sticks with me most of the time and pushes me through the day!

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success
from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great
achievements."

I forget who says it though

[David Campbell]

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” —William James

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” -Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Freedom is not a spectator sport.

“Well done is better than well said!” - Teddy Roosevelt

[Diana Lane]

'Luck is when preparation meets opportunity' - I can't remember who said this one.

'Just stick at it' - my dad, who said it often.

'Right, we're done here. Pub?' - DCI Gene Hunt, from British TV series 'Life On Mars'.

[Bon508]

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
(Aristotle)

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”
(Sam Levenson)

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
(Yogi Berra)

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."
(Ann Landers)

[Ideefixe]

"It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because... All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." - Mark Cuban

[Allen Graves]

"It is our most in-depth perception that allows us to acheive greatness."

[TheVCF]

1) "If you want to make a LOT of Money, find a Need and Fill it! ...
If you want to make a TON of Money, find a Problem and FIX it!"
- original origin unknown

2) "You will have Everything You Want in life, iff you help enough Other People Achieve what They Want [in life]! "
- Zig Ziglar

I hope this helps and Have a Great Day!

- Michael

[David Campbell]

Optimists are right. So are the pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. - Harvey Mackay

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

No one finds life worth living; he makes it worth living. - Harry Emerson Fosdick