Inspirational Quotes.

[Tick]

Post your favs!

[gmillerdrake]

"Just remember....cheaters never lose....and losers never cheat....."           















 

[TAC]

Years ago, I cut out a quote out of the paper from (at the time) Red Sox Manager Jimy Williams.

He said," Always tell the truth. That way, you never have to remember what you said."

[Adami]

[WDADU]

More of a speech than a quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk82j1jQw_8

I always watch this scene whenever I need a little kick in the butt. Gets me every time.

[Dublagent66]

That's a good movie!   

[Stadler]

I was hoping for the "this is YOUR time" speech from Herb Brooks/Kurt Russell in "Miracle". 

[millahh]

"We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France
We shall fight on the seas and oceans.
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be
we shall fight on beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight on the hills.
We shall never surrender."

 

[Zook]

"When you fall off that horse, you get right back up, and you eat that horse."

[TAC]

"We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France
We shall fight on the seas and oceans.
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be
we shall fight on beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight on the hills.
We shall never surrender."

 

Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. Aces high.

 

[TheCountOfNYC]

If you're not living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space.

[lonestar]

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

[rumborak]

At my highschool graduation the speaker (the town's mayor) said:

"Everybody is born an original, but most die as a copy."

[MirrorMask]

Not really a quote but an entire speech, from Carl Sagan, that I would want to be present in a carving at the ONU and in every office of every president, king and prime minister on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

Sagan's quote is near the end of the page.

[Tomislav95]

Two simple yet effective quotes:
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

I have this article that motivate and inspire me more than anything else, sorry for being a bit off topic.
Mark Manson - The subtle art of not giving a fuck

[Chino]

I raise you

[Tick]

[Chino]

[Phoenix87x]

[Hyperplex]

I always keep a list of great quotes in my phone for reference. Some favorites:

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

“If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.”
― Erich Fromm

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conductive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
— Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli

"Success is relative; it is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
― T.S. Eliot

[lonestar]

If you're ever in dire need for an inspirational quote, try Inspirobot....

https://inspirobot.me/

[DebraKadabra]

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it's not open.

If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
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All of the above are Frank Zappa quotes.

History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. - James Joyce

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," -- that is all
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
 And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. - John Donne

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
 

[wolfking]

Some great ones in here all round.  One that always stuck with me;

[Prog Snob]

[wolfking]

Love these lone wolf quotes;

[Zook]

"You never go full retard."

[Chino]

Saw this in response to a Reddit thread asking about how people in marriages where the two people make very different amounts of money make it work.

"Marriage is about love and respect. It's not a pissing contest."

I liked it.

[Tick]

[Stadler]

That reminds me of the "Balance" album cover.