Great Quotes

I subscribe to a website that sends a quote a day and an occasional uplifting story.  Today I received:

"The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your arm."
 Swedish Proverb

Im loving it!  Stop the whining/complaining and help yourself.  You are responsible for saving/helping yourself!

Any quotes that move you?

one of my favorite quotes for years now:

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. -- Curtis Grant

and then there are also many, many, many Mark Twain quotes to choose from :-)

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.---Uta Hagen

It is great to have little reminders that help us along -- 2 of mine are...

No man is free who is not master of himself.  

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;               Claudius

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

~Marilyn Monroe

Original Post by luvjazz60:

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

~Marilyn Monroe

 

Depressing. What's life without love?

90% of sucess is just showing up.  Woody Allen

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.---John Wayne

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it well worth the effort."  (Herm Albright)

Original Post by luvjazz60:

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

~Marilyn Monroe

...and we all know how that worked out for her.

my default position in the "quotes" threads is this one:

The cure for boredom is curiosity.  There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker

"Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy" - Ben Franklin

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." 

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend"

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.  The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.  As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."  All quotes from Abe Lincoln.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.-- Edward Everett Hale

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person. -- Bette Davis

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. --Lloyd Dobler

Buy the ticket, take the ride. --Hunter S. Thompson

I found this one on another persons profile from this site and really liked it so here goes:

"There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you."

Marianne Williamson

"blessed is the man who expects nothing; for he shall never be disappointed"

"Happiness depends upon ourselves"  Aristotle

"Until one is 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. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occured.  A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."  William Murray - climber of Mount Everest

"Talent without ambition is like a bird without wings"  Salvador Dali

great post idea devilish!

"Live as if you were to die tomarrow. Learn as though you are going to live forever."     -- Gandhi

A good plan executed today is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite point in the future. George Patton

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way. John Paul Jones

Talking about road running, "There's no such thing as bad weather, only soft people."

-Bill Bowerman

I guess I like a little antagonism in my inspiration...

Original Post by michellerc:

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.-- Edward Everett Hale

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person. -- Bette Davis

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. --Lloyd Dobler

Buy the ticket, take the ride. --Hunter S. Thompson

 

^^ ah! i love all of these! ^^