What's Your Favorite Quote?

[Amanda K. Jones]

Thought it might be kinda fun to start a thread like this. Sometimes a little inspiration or humor is all it takes to get our creative butts into gear. Quotes are also a great way to connect with your readers--whether you're writing a blog post, email message, ebook, or whatever.

So here's my first contribution which is dedicated to all the great Warriors who have helped me out these past few days:

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. -- Edmund Burke

Pass it on!
Amanda

[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.

[ibuildlinks]

"If we are celebrating our birthdays because we are a year older, we are then celebrating one year closer to our death." -KYLE XY series

[John Rowe]

Originally Posted by Amanda K. Jones

What are Some of Your Favorite Quotes?

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry.
-- Oscar Wilde

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with
your opinions and content with your knowledge.
-- Elbert Hubbard

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or
my brain.
-- Shania Twain

(Note: If I had Shania's body, it would be somewhat of a
distraction for me, as I would never step out of the shower...
BUT... her quote is about fitness and staying healthy, and
I like it.)

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something
you don't know anything about.
-- Wayne Dyer

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
-- Mark Twain

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it
from him.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Money will always remain an effect.
-- Atlas Shrugged

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new
way or to say a new thing in an old way.
-- Richard HardingDavis

People will spend their last nickel to have some fun.
--P.T. Barnum

Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base
and keep your foot on first.
-- Fredrick B. Wilcox

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[TimS]

Mine is a combination of a quote and a picture. I used to have this as my desktop background

[Richard Tunnah]

Not sure who said these but:-

The only way to fail is to quit!

Winners are like everyone else except they keep going until they achieve heir goals.

Rich

[Mac Wheeler]

"I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

[Michael Oksa]

These are off the top of my head, so they may be paraphrased, but close.

Two runner's up...

3. Don't criticize what you can't understand - The Times They Are A Changin', Bob Dylan

2. I do not wish to achieve immortality through my works, I wish to achieve it by not dying. - Woody Allen

And my all time fave quote...

1. Truth is the sword of us all - Stiv Bator(s)

~Michael

p.s. Then again there are tons of DEVO lyrics that are hard to beat, but don'tget me started.

[adarwish]

Fortune favors the bold.
-Virgil

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-Michelangelo

[David Chambless]

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy! "

Robert Burns "Ode to a Mouse" Stanza 13, 1785


"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, - act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."

A Psalm of Life!

Longfellow


"Where's my D### remote!?!?!?"
David

[semmyw]

this is my favorite quote "The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming."

[SeanIM]

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."


and


"Jager" - Dave Attell

[jcoolbaugh]

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most" ~ Ozzy Osbourne

Describes motherhood perfectly

[Suthan M]

Good distraction frees you from emotional pain, bad distraction gives you a mouth full of whizz. (Quote: Guru Pitka)

Now that is handy for a lot of us :-P ..

[mmurtha]

Hi Amanda,

I have a couple of favorites. Here is one of them:

There is a principlewhich is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ingnorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."

Herbert Spencer

Mary

[johntanyishin]

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Winners don't quit and quitters don't win.

JTYS

[Solidsnake]

"In this world there's nothing to be feared; but to be understood"
Arbert Enstein

[imbuildinglinkz]

my all time favorite is "Winners never quit and Quitters never win"

[Anup Mahajan]

My favorite quote is

"Do or do not. There's no try!" -- by Jedi Master Yoda..

[Rien]

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

Not sure if it was Gretzky or Jordan.

That hit me like a lightning bolt one morning when I realized that the only person stopping me from making money online was - ME.

[Ben Clemons]

i always liked "2nd place is the first loser"

[Iain Ainsworth]

Winston Churchill ~

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

[Billy Deakin]

"Successful people will do the things unsuccessful people are unprepared to do" - Unknown

or

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad!" - Peter Kay

bill

[John Coutts]

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan

Now I'm from the UK and I don't even know what Michael Jordan looks like. I understand he's a successful sportsman, but what he says can be applied to any successful person anywhere in the world; eventual success means going through a lot of failure first.

John.

[kumar]

I use this in my email signature:

"Life is not a sprint, its a marathon. A bad start does not really matter too much"

Not sure if the below qualifies as a quote, but this really inspires me:

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing"

of course, from the Adidas ad campaign!

[jjpmarketing]

My absolute favorite quote is:

"Dream like you will live forever, and live as if you'll die today."

James Dean

[Neil Morgan]

"Don't assume, it makes an ASS of U and ME"

[preets]

Winners don't do different things , they do things differently - Shiv Khera

[RobinSkeen]

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken - Oscar Wilde

Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - Abraham Lincoln

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs - Will Rogers

And, yes - I do think Yoda belongs in there.

[lakshaybehl]

WHAT CAN BE DONe TODAY, Shall Be done today

[Shannon Herod]

"I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed, and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of time I fail and keep trying." - Author Unknown


Shannon

[Michael Mayhew]

"Chance Favors The Prepared Mind"
Louis Pastuer

[LivingCovers]

"It is in Christ Jesus we know who we are and what we are made for" - Author, Jesus Christ.

So in essense, that means if you don't have Christ Jesus in your life/heart, you simply
don't know who you are or what you are made for.

So Simple, yet many fail to realize this truth.

Olatunde.

[yuyuan]

"You are much stronger than what you think you are." - A Commando.

[Tiger]

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me" ~ King of kings, Lord of lords.

[Sean Donahoe]

There are so many good quotes that have inspired me, a few have been quoted here (especially Winston Churchills but hey I am British even if I do live in California)

My favorite and most inspiring quote is the one in my Sig from Albert Einstein and he is also the source of some other favorites and many apply to Internet Marketing:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

What can I say, the man was more than a scientific genius.

[BrianMcLeod]

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Amanda K. Jones]

Originally Posted by Chikira

What can I say, the man was more than a scientific genius.

I totally agree! Einstein is one of my favorites too.

This is a good one too:

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

[naruq]

My Mother taught me very early on to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The First was to walk without braces. Wilma Rudolph, Olympic Track and Field Champion. The Tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. Benjamin Mays former President of Moorehouse college. When Dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes African-American Poet.

[Tuzic]

Hi,

"all that glistens is not gold"

[Corwinnx]

Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve

A true soldier does not admit defeat before the battle- Helen Keller

It is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt- ( I think that was Shakespeare)

Do not give me 100% of what 1 man can, give me 5% of what 100 men can do.

If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. - The Donald

[Internet Stores]

I just read this one today, by Dave Lakhani, that I thought was pretty good!

"Implementation is everything and money follows action"

[jhongren]

Once you on it, you never look back.

Cheers,
John

[David Reed]

"When it comes to binary there are 10 types of people: Those who understand it and those who don't."

David

[Mary Gallivan]

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Woodrow Wilson


Mary

[Marhelper]

"Try the veal ... I'll be here all week."

" ... so I said, 'Take my wife please.'"

"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?" (Seriously)

[jjpmarketing]

Originally Posted by David Reed

"When it comes to binary there are 10 types of people: Those who understand it and those who don't."

David

I like that quote. What is sad... is that I actually understand the quote... lol

[Christie Love]

"The Past Does Not Equal The Future" ^ Tony Robbins

[Jakehyten]

"The two best days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why"

"I get more women on accident than most guys get on purpose"

[Steve Taylor]

An old carpenters saying...

Measure twice - cut once

-Steve