Favorite or interesting Quotes?!

Brakalack
Brakalack Posts: 34 Member
Yah, sometimes I go thru quotes trying to find motivation or put a different perspective on things. One I just stumbled on is below that i thought was pretty good.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

What are some of ya'lls favorite quotes? Could be about life, love, anything!!
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  • "The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. "
  • angmarie28
    angmarie28 Posts: 2,895 Member
    "dont let your dreams be dreams"
    "better to be hated for who you are then to be liked for who you are not"
  • LizHowerton
    LizHowerton Posts: 329 Member
    "It's not the cards you're dealt, it's how you play your hand."
  • IsabellaC45
    IsabellaC45 Posts: 137 Member
    We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
  • "Only those who will going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T S Elliot

    " Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost
  • pudadough
    pudadough Posts: 1,271 Member
    "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something." - words of wisdom from Adventure Time.

    :)
  • "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something." - words of wisdom from Adventure Time.

    :)

    Love it!!
  • wrbiii
    wrbiii Posts: 151
    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

    ― Albert Einstein

    "**** em, and feed em a fish head"
    My dad

    If they don't like it, they can blow me
    My dad


    Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
    Mark Twain



    In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
    Bill Cosby
  • 1holegrouper
    1holegrouper Posts: 323 Member
    "When you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything who cares."
  • supahstar71
    supahstar71 Posts: 926 Member
    The one on my profile page:

    Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and hold my cocktail while I reapply my lip gloss.
  • zombie_porno
    zombie_porno Posts: 199 Member
    "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" (Marianne Williamson)
  • EyeLikeTacos
    EyeLikeTacos Posts: 324 Member
    "Eat the cake Anna Mae"

    --Ike Turner
  • ruurik
    ruurik Posts: 143 Member
    "Not all pain is gain" - Which is why, at the gym, I start with something simple. Usually a cappuccino or maybe some French onion soup.

    I actually said "not all pain is gain" for the first time after a guy at my gym got kicked full on in the whatsits. He said afterwards (in a strange high pitch voice) that he wasn't wearing a protective cup.

    "Not all pain is gain". *sips cappuccino*
  • chinatbag
    chinatbag Posts: 249 Member
    This is still my favorite after all these years:

    "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,
    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half-light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."

    --William Butler Yeats
  • hookandy
    hookandy Posts: 278 Member
    "remember there is no spoon" Matrix
  • cheekychic70
    cheekychic70 Posts: 5 Member
    Even if your on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers
  • Aquarian
    Aquarian Posts: 1,094 Member
    Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
    Mark Twain

    Love this! This should be mandatory reading for everyone, really. :)

    Mine are "What you will be tomorrow depends on what you do today," and "Do or die".
  • HelenDootson
    HelenDootson Posts: 443 Member
    If you can't say something nice, say nothing at all:flowerforyou:
  • MSxJENNY
    MSxJENNY Posts: 106 Member
    "I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change." ---- Jim Rohn
  • loumaag
    loumaag Posts: 118
    "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill
  • georgiaTRIs
    georgiaTRIs Posts: 229 Member

    Every marathon starts with the first step, so start moving to reach your goals,
  • georgiaTRIs
    georgiaTRIs Posts: 229 Member
    love that one!
  • Williamj
    Williamj Posts: 199 Member
    "So, she's a dog..."
    Dr. Peter Venkman
  • "If you keep heading in the same direction, you'll get where your going"
    Read it in a Jodi Picoult book and never forgotten it.
  • You only live once but if you do it right once is enough
  • "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" (Marianne Williamson)

    That is also one of my favourites, so much so that i want "It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." as part of a tattoo im getting next
  • totallydevious
    totallydevious Posts: 309 Member
    A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

    One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come, live in the present and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.

    She seems so invincible but just touch her and she'll wince. She has secrets and trusts no one. She's the perfect example of betrayal because anyone she's ever trusted broke her.

    Stop beating yourself up. You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.

    No matter how many mistakes you make, or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

    Don’t worry about others doing better than you. Concentrate on beating your own records every day. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only.

    A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

    You can't have the rainbow without a little rain.

    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

    No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

    Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

    Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself, breathe & enjoy the ride.

    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

    Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

    When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

    I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel.

    :heart:
  • RitaSantoss
    RitaSantoss Posts: 986 Member
    "We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid, so are regrets."
    "Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."
    "Don't let small minds tell you that your dreams are too big."

    Just a couple that I try to live my life by.
  • BIGJIMMYU
    BIGJIMMYU Posts: 1,221 Member
    Be careful of the *kitten* you're kicking today because you may be kissing it tomorrow!
  • Bermudabarbie
    Bermudabarbie Posts: 568 Member
    Don't stumble over something behind you. You're not going that way.

    Success if failing nine times and getting up ten.

    If you change nothing, nothing will change.