Favorite Quotes

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon - Author Unknown

I have a couple:

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing." -Unkn
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
"It's not against the law to be a dumbass, but some people exploit the privelege." -Instructor in my Paramedic school

If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done. mine...I am sure I am not the only one who ever thought of it but has been my quote for 20 years.

If you believe you can achieve..Mine

Life will only ever give you what you expect from it. Mine


I use alot of quotes in my work.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade


It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955-67)

"THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself." ~Richard Bach

"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are." ~Osho

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."
~Alan Alda (1936 - )

"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me."
~Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)

It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milkbone underwear ---Norm Peterson, Cheers

Mom: Why are you pulling that tarp across the yard?
Dad: You ever tried to push one? (my dad could be a smart *kitten* sometimes :laugh: )

Here's one I forgot. Not really a quote, but good advice to live by anyways.

"Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time."

"I never had the luxury of saying it couldn't be done."

-Hartley Anderson (my grandpa)

"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 and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others."

—Marianne Williamson

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Humankind. Be both. - Unknown (saw this on a bumper sticker during the morning commute today)

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - A.A. Milne

The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words are just words, our actions define us. - A friend told me this once, I'm not sure if she heard it elsewhere though.

Nature is the art of God. - Dante Alighieri

I love quotes! So I have a ton:




You can always close your eyes to the things you don't want to see...but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel

There comes a point in your life when you realize who cares, who never did, and who always will. Don't dwell on people from your past that have caused you pain. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future...

I take the good with the bad, Smile with the sad, Love what I got, And remember what I had. Always forgive, But never forgot, Learned from my mistakes, But never regret. People change, Things go wrong, I just remember…..Life Goes On.

Rent is due, car note too.
Telephone and cable are all disconnected.
Life is full of the unexpected.
Never say never, or frown on what you wouldn't do,
Until you've walked a mile in a poor man's shoe.
Remember when you thought life was a joke?
How funny is it now that you are Going Broke?

Dai nemici mi guardo io, dagli amici mi guardi Dio ("I (can) protect myself from my enemies; may God protect me from my friends! )

Don't judge me based on your ignorance

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom"- George S. Patton

" I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one." I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back... I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. 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. " - Maya Angelou

"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down." - Brian Weir

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

"You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them." - unknown

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that i would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, " I used everything you gave me". - Erma Bombeck

"Chance is a small window , Opportunity is a Large Door". - Kano

"If it looks good you'll see it, if it sounds good you'll hear it, if its marketed right you'll buy it...but if its real, you'll feel it" - Kid Rock


"No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended." - Alice Walker

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
- Virginia Woolf

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..." -Albert Einstein

If you`re looking for reasons not to love someone, you`re probably going to find them, but sometimes we need to give in & let our hearts get what they deserve.
-- One Tree Hill

“I love disjointed, non sequitur humor that’s mostly to make three or four of your friends laugh. I think we’re ready for the laugh-till-your-stomach-aches-and-then-wonder-what-you-just-said kind of comedy.”


I believe that two people are connected at
the heart & it doesn’t matter what you do,
or who you are, or where you live; there are
no boundaries or barriers. If two people
are destined to be together, they will be.


At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared, some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day & others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls. And sometimes… all you need is one. - One Tree Hill


Sometimes Pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to be there. Because you can’t remember a time when it wasn’t But then one day you feel something else. Something that feels wrong - only because it’s so unfamiliar. And in that moment… you are realize you’re happy. - One Tree Hill


It’s not about what you say, it’s about what you do. You don’t like the person you’ve become - then do something about it. ‘Cause non one’s gonna do it for you. - OTH



Life kick you around sometimes. It scares you and it beats you up. But there’s one day you realize you’re not just a survivor - you’re a fighter. You’re tougher than anything life throws your way - and you ARE. - OTH


Imagine a future moment in your life where all your dreams come true. You know it’s the greatest moment of your life and you get to experience it with one person. Who’s standing next to you? - Peyton OTH


Someone once said "It's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time." Me? .... I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember. Even if I don't write it down." - One Tree Hill

Sometimes people put up walls
not to keep others out
but to see who cares enough
to tear them down

Giving up doesn't always mean your weak, it just means that you are strong enough to let go
A wise girl kisses but never loves...Listens but never believes....And leaves before she is left

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~Bill Cosby

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. - Casey Kasem

"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present." Petra Nemcova

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future." John F. Kennedy

"The past cannot be changed the future is yet in your power." Mary Pickford

"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second." - Johnny Depp

"If you looked inside a girl you would see how much she really cries, you would find so many secrets and a lot of lies but what you'll see most is how hard it is to stay strong when nothing is right and everything is wrong."

"The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

"If something is not happening for you it doesn't mean it's never going to happen. It means you're not ready for it."

"When you're struggling with something look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something and to them its just as hard as what you're going through"

"Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon"

The ones I love are:

"The death of one man means bread for another."- Unknown

"Enjoy when you can, suffer when you must." - Excerpt from People of the Lakes

"Love is one of the most intense emotions felt by man, the other is hate.... ....Without being able to experience one of these emotions you cannot fully experience the other."- Anton Lavey

and of course the classic "F** you, f*** you, f*** you, you're cool, and f*** you, I'm out!"- Half Baked

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. -Hunter S. Thompson

"My god. I haven't been ****ed like that since grade school."

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

The true measure of a man’s wealth is in the things he can afford not to buy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. – Tommy Lasorda