What's Your Favorite Quote?

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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
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  • 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.
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    • "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
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    • 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.
    • set a man on fire and you'll send him to eternity.
  • 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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  • Mine is a combination of a quote and a picture. I used to have this as my desktop background
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    • Thanks for my new desktop background!
  • 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.
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    • Fortune favors the bold.
      -Virgil

      The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
      -Michelangelo
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  • i always liked "2nd place is the first loser"
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    • Winston Churchill ~

      "If you're going through hell, keep going"
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    "all that glistens is not gold"
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    • 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
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  • 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.
  • "Where the head goes...

    the body follows."

    And there is plenty of proof on this forum.
  • "If you're willing to do for a year what others won't,
    you can do for a lifetime what others CAN'T!"
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    • "Courage :When you are afraid, but you go ahead anyway."
    • 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.
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    • "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
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  • Content is Kong. As in the "King Kong".

    - By John Reese
  • "any way any how"
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    • 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
  • From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce:

    QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
    The words erroneously repeated.
  • 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)
  • "It is our most in-depth perception that allows us to acheive greatness."
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    • 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
    • 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
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  • "Early to bed and early to rise work like hell and advertise"
    Ted Turner
  • Well, two of my favorite movie lines would have to be: "I've got a baaaad feeling about this!" - Star Wars (and Indy) and "Patience, my young Padawan learner". I'm guilty of saying this to my eldest son, when he's in a hurry. At least it still makes him laugh!
  • Be Like Water My Friend -- Bruce Lee

    - Jared
  • I like this one... I made this one...



    -Lakshay
  • You only ever regret in life the risks you never take.
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  • I have 3 favorites:
    1: you must trade in who you've been for who you must become, Les Brown
    2: If you do what's easy, life will be hard. If you do what's hard, life will be easy, Les Brown
    3. Commitment is what seperates people who'have potential' and people who have results. That is a Demond Jackson origional (me)
  • Amanda,

    My personal favorite (and the one posted on my push board) is:

    "Today is a chance to do better than yesterday."

    Jeff
  • "I like you... NOT!" - Borat

    ok not really

    it's actually "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.", well one of my favourite anyway.
  • Bacteria is the only culture some people have
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    • One of my favorites is from Brian Tracy:

      "People who don't have goals are forever doomed to work for those who do."
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. ~ Unknown
  • Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.....

    Albert Einstein
  • "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
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  • an old boss of mine use to say

    Procrastination is like masturbation, your only screwing yourself----


    except he used the f* word instead
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    • "No matter how much frosting you apply to a pile of crap, you still won't have a yummy tasting cake."
  • There's a spiritual solution to every problem. - Wayne Dyer

    It's actually the title of one of his books
  • My favorite quote is:

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  • Overheard at party..."I've been married 17 years. Now I know why people cry at weddings."
  • Some men see things as they are and ask, "Why?". I dream things that never were and ask, "Why Not?".
  • Life isn't about finding yourself - life is about CREATING yourself (unknown - posted above my desk)

    Reality is nothing, perception is everything (also posted above my desk - unknown - but my credo as a lifer in sales, online and off!)
  • "Just do it !" Nike commercial

    Life without dreams is like a stream without water - Philip Michael Thomas

    If you want what other people do not have, then you must do what other people do not do, and other people wont understand- unknown

    See you at the top - unknown

    Aim for the sun, if you miss it you might land amongst the stars- unknown

    Poorness is no disgrace, only a setback - my mother !!
  • "If you always do what you've always done...

    You'll always get what you've always got"

    I love that one!
  • Practice make perfect, but nobody perfect.. so why bother practice?

    -by anon

  • "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." ~ Bob Seger

    "I plan to live forever. So far so good."
  • Easy.

    "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth
    on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into
    condemnation; but is passed from death unto life."

    None better.
  • Just Do It! - Nike
  • "I am going to make him an offer he cannot refuse". Marlon Brando, The Godfather I
  • If you think you can, or think you can't - you're right. (unknown to me)
  • Success leaves clues.......
    Tony Robbins

    What we learn to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence....
    Samuel Johnson
  • "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" -- Napoleon Hill

    Also,
    "You can have anything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want." -- Zig Ziglar
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  • To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. -- Arthur Herzog

    Cheers!
    Jay
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    • I have several, but I'll start with this one. It's been a favorite since I was about 20.

      "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
      - Eleanor Roosevelt

      Sometimes if I find myself in a situation where somebody is causing a certain feeling in me (anger, upset, etc), I'll substitute the word "inferior" for the feeling that I'm having.
  • "Think about the Solution - NOT the Problem."
  • Here's my shot:

    "The shortest answer is action!"
  • When you change the way you look at things....
    the things you look at change.....
    Wayne Dyer

    "Pretty cool....really"
  • There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.

    - Albert Einstein
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      "There is no such thing as failure. You either get the desired outcome, or your learn. No matter what the result, you win. The past does not equal the future. Every time we face a challenge we have a choice to make. Will we get bitter or better? Decide to get better. Face the challenge it's there to make you stronger. You will need that strength further down the road when you'll be facing even bigger challenges. The difference between people is there are those who are interested and those who are committed. The key to success in life is going from being interested to being committed. Once you are committed you will produce results. At the point of commitment, you mentally burn all bridges and you do whatever it takes to make it happen. That's when you become unstoppable."

      -

      Unfortunately I don't know who author is. My Brother gave it to me on a slip of paper. I've tried searching online before and couldn't find anything. (If anyone knows please share.) I think it's probably one of the best quoations I've ever read.
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  • "Until one is fully committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
  • While yes it is important to make good money it is even more important to save your money and make it work for you

    My Dad
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  • "Do or Not... There is No Try" - Yoda

    Thanks,

    John
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  • A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.-Carlos Castenada

    It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca

    Knowledge is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Bruce Lee
  • I've always loved the exchange between Alice and Chesire Cat in Wonderland.
    .................................................. .............

    `Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' asked Alice

    `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said Chesire Cat.

    `I don't much care where--' said Alice.

    `Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

    `--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.

    `Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'"
    .................................................. ....

    If you don't know where you are heading, any direction will do. And if you walk long enough you will be sure to get somewhere.
  • From My late uncle Bob something he said to me many years ago when he was teaching me to oil paint:

    " don't give up in whatever you do, because the minute you give up, you will never be able to take back those words, 'I give up' it plants a seed that can grow and lie dormant, and spring back to bite you in your ass.
    if you feel that you are not doing well step back and look at what you have done. take a break and do something else, because in time you will figure out what went wrong, you can always repaint your canvas and start over, but the minute you throw your canvas away, it is gone forever"

    R.I.P. Robert Legue
  • "The past does not equal the future." Tony Robbins
  • "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    "But it is the final solution." My mother after I told her the quote above.

    "You only become fit by walking uphill." The New Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher
  • Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age- Albert Einstein
  • Ultimately - The Only Difference Between A Successful Person And A Unsuccessful Person Is The Successful Person Took Persistent & Consistent ACTION! - Author Unknown
  • "Making excuses and making money are mutually exclusive activities."
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    • "Get rich quick... life is too short to get rich slow"

      -My mom
    • Nice one Fabian.

      I'm testing using this little gem just before the order button...

      It's been said we can be one of two kinds of people:

      1. You can make excuses

      or

      2. You can make money

      But you can't make both at the same time.

      Now's the time for You to finally make money,

      So to get started making money, click the order button below right now!
  • "People Don't Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care"
    - Johnny Wimbrey
  • WHATEVER YOU CAN
    DO OR DREAM YOU
    CAN, BEGIN IT.
    BOLDNESS HAS
    GENIUS POWER
    AND MAGIC IN IT.
    BEGIN IT NOW.
    GOETHE
  • so many quotes to choose from, i wil think about my fav and get back
  • "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 are omnipotent."

    U.S. President Calvin Coolidge

    Let's just make sure the goal is achievable!

    Hope This Helps!!

    TL
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    What's Your Favorite Quote?

    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: