What's your favorite QUOTE?
"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying"
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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
- Abe Lincoln0 -
"Well behaved women seldom make history." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich0
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"Well behaved women seldom make history." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Yup, love this one!0 -
"Compassion before profit
creativity before conformity
spirit before materialism"
Not sure who to quote on this one, but I read it a LONG time ago and it has stuck with me.0 -
" It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore0 -
Don't you know there ain't no devil? That's just God when he's drunk." - Tom Waits0
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Lots of good ones but this one has been the most valuable to me in the last year or so....
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anais Nin
Also, this from an old Nike ad...
Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously.
You know when you need a break. You know
when you need a rest. you know what to get worked
up about, and what to get rid of.
And you know when it’s time to take care
of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes
you stronger, faster, more complete.
Because you know it’s never too late to have a life.
And never too late to change one.0 -
Its mind over matter, if you dont mind it dont matter0
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"I will not be mastered by anything!"0
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As I am flipping through MFP and NOT completing my final homework assignment for the semester, I figured I should go with this one:
"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
I'm also a fan of "Save the planet. It's the only one that's got chocolate."
And "Support yogurt. It's the only culture that some people have."
For those of you looking for inspiration "To wish you were someone else is to the waste the person you are."0 -
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow"0
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Eleanor Roosevelt - "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."0
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"Safety Tip #999: Neverever chuk ice at some ones head." --Noah Pongratz
(My son brought this wonderful bit of advice home from school on a notecard when he was 6. I still have it hanging on our refrigerator. Deep Thoughts.)0 -
A pessimist get's nothing but pleasant surprises, an Optimist nothing but unpleasant. (Nero Wolfe A.K.A Rex Stout)0
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Don't you know there ain't no devil? That's just God when he's drunk." - Tom Waits
:laugh: I love that!:bigsmile:0 -
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe0 -
“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” - Fulton Oursler0
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"This Too Shall Pass".....even have it tattooed on me!0
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“If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.”
Or
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.”
Robert Frost0 -
Wherever you go, there you are.
Buckaroo Banzai0 -
Work will win when wishing won’t.0
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none"
- William Shakespeare0 -
"Never justify yourself. Your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe it anyway."
I have always loved that one, though I'm not sure who to attribute it to.
Also: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes, 1883 - 1946
The writer in me adores that one.0 -
"I'm not addicted to cocaine, I just like the way it smells" - Richard Pryor.0
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All this bttoning and unbuttoning.
-18th century suicide note0 -
no matter how badly you mess up, you haven't truly failed until you give up.0
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Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you!!0
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -Terry Pratchett0
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Of course it's hard, if it wasn't hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. - A League of Their Own (I have pulled out that quote many times during my marathons)0
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Never argue with an idiot, he'll just drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.0
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