OT: Quotes

[SleepingUgly]

I miss seeing new quotes that I might like to correct, so bump!

[idamtnboy]

To quote myself:

"Think positive, soften the impact of impending insanity!"

"If everyone around me wasn't so negative, I wouldn't be so cynical!"

[ZeroDigger]

Some people walk in the rain: others only get wet.

We spend approximately one-seventh of our lives on a Monday.

[idamtnboy]

We spend approximately one-seventh of our lives on a Monday.

There is one way Monday is a much better day than Friday. It's seven days until the next Monday, not just three!!!

[DavidCarolina]

"Never let your dreams become dreams"- Mark Twain

"Brevity is the soul of wit" - Shakespeare. Translated: KEEP IT SHORT STUPID

"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Twain again

[spicegirl]

There but the grace of God go I. (Love you, Mom)

You can't control the behavior of others, only your own.

Some things can't be forseen or understood or blamed on anyone they can just be endured.

[SleepingUgly]

If I had to give up any part of this, how could I possibly protect myself from losing all of it? The answer had very little to do with protection and everything to do with perspective. The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me. I could concentrate on the loss--rush in with whatever stopgap measures my ego could manufacture. I could rely on my old friend from the nineties, denial. Or I could just get on with my life and see if maybe those holes started filling in themselves. ~ Michael J. Fox

[Sleepy Taz]

Try these,

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail

The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

You can’t fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes

[chunkyfrog]

So many others are wiser than I;
May I not forget this too quickly.

[ThirdOutOfFive]

"No matter where you go, there you are." Unknown, but often quoted by my brother. Thanks, Jim.

[idamtnboy]

I like to think this is original with me, but maybe not.

"If you begin at an unknown starting point, and go a known distance in a known direction, you end up at ... an unknown ending point."

[SleepingUgly]

There is no passion to be found in playing small -- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

[SuddenlyWornOut45]

It's better to die standing on your feet, than to live on your knees."

quote from the movie, Red Dawn


"What you said when you were drunk is what you were really thinking when you are sober."

an old military saying

[SleepingUgly]

It's all retch and no vomit.
Alan Watts

Doing things changes things. Not doing things leaves things exactly as they are.
House MD

[SMenasco]

Never bring a knife to a gun fight.

To have lots of girlfriends, never set your sights higher than you can reach.

Here, hold my beer and watch this.

I'd rather be a COULD BE if I cannot be an ARE
For a COULD BE is a MAYBE who is reaching for a star
I'd rather be a HAS BEEN than a MIGHT HAVE BEEN by far
For a MIGHT HAVE BEEN has never been
And a HAS was once an ARE.