inspirational or motivational quotes

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dean7879
what quotes do u know that inspire or motivate.

from british prime minister winston churchill

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 the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER

Jedi Priestess
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The courage to change the things I can
And the wisdom to know the difference.

I try to read that one daily......

RaventheOnly
We have nothing to fear.....but fear itself.

Creechuur
"When your emotions are not involved, answers are often obvious."
Jedi Master Mace Windu

"The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing."
Walt Disney

"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that."
Walt Disney

The Omega
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

All from the ONE the ONLY,
-- Albert Einstein

Jedi Priestess
To thine own self be true....Shakesphere

ragesRemorse
Life sucks then you die, and then it sucks some more.

silver_tears
A coward dies a thousand deaths, but the brave only taste death once. ~Julius Ceasar
How can something bother you if you won't let it? ~Terri Guillemets
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. ~Duke Ellington
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~Braveheart
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ~James Dean

TOH
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

Henry Ford

BackFire
Life isn't measured by the amount of breaths you take, but by the number of moments that take your breath away.

shaber
Think I'd share them? Not likely!

WindDancer
"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."
John Locke

"The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed. "
Immanuel Kant

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the great spirits may show to them many things which the older people missed."
Black Elk proverb

amity75
"I think perhaps when we are victorious on a global scale we will use gold for the building of public lavatories" - Lenin

Jedi Priestess
Tomorrow IS another day.~~Katie Scarlett O'Hara

hobbit_dude
ur'e like the prodest person of being british I know laughing

amity75
"They may take our lives but they'll never take our FREEDOM!!!!!" - Sir William Wallace.

Yesterdays Gone
"Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are"

--Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

Woody Woods
"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning."

-------Gen. George Pattontank---------------------

Moo Cow
"Obsticals are the little things that get in our way, when we take our eyes off the goal."

Woody Woods
" I HAVE PROMISES 2 KEEP, AND MILES TO GO, B4 I SLEEP." Robert Frost

i like this one, and the poem...msn-wink

theReject
"Worry is like a rocking chair...it gives you something to do but it gets you nowhere." -?

Just something someone told me once

Moo Cow
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Do not save your loveing speechs
For your friends when they are dead,
Do not write them on their tombstones
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret B. Runbeck

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
- unknown

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- David O. McKay

angelsflame265
"You may be one person to the world, but you may be the world to one person"

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room"

"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so reqrefully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones that open for us."

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but thats not what ships were made for"

"Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back"

"Friends are like angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly"

I love these kinds of quotes, i have lots more

Woody Woods
"...Bond....James Bond." wink

SnakeEyes
"Meh........I'll do it tomorrow"

- quote from me

dean7879
'How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live'

Beyond Image
" What's the point in living if you can't feel alive?"----The World is not enough...Electra King

Fiery Eyes
if God has called you, he will equiped you.

dean7879
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

shaber
Nice

bardock
may the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft, to dance with the stars. -george jung

Morningstar

TrAnCeDuO
A young man named Matajuro wanted to

become a great swordsman, but his father said he wasn't quick enough and could never learn. So Matajuro went to the famous dueler Banzo and asked to become his pupil. "How long will it take me to become a master?" he asked. "Suppose I become your servant, to be with you every minute, how long?" "Ten years, said Banzo." "My father is getting old. Before ten years have passed I will have to return home to take care of him. Suppose I work twice as hard, how long will it take me?" "Thirty years, said Banzo." "How is that?" asked Matajuro. "First you say ten years , then I offer to work twice as hard, you say it will take me three times as long. Let me make myself clear. I will work unceasinly, no hardship will be too much. How long will it take?" "Seventy years," said Banzo. "A pupil in such a hurry learns slowly."

Matajuro understood. Without asking for any
promises in terms of time, he became Banzo's servant. He cooked, he cleaned, he washed, he gardened. He was ordered never to speak of fencing or to touch a sword. He was very sad at this but given his promise to the master and resolved to keep his word.

Three years have passed for Matajuro as a
servant. One day, while he was gardening, Banzo came up quietly behind him and gave him a terrible blow with a wooden sword. The next dayin the kitchen, the same terrible blow fell again. Thereafter, day in day out, from every corner and at any moment, he was attacked by Banzo's wooden sword. Banzo began to look like a demon. Matajuro learned to live on the balls of his feet, ready to dodge at any movment. He bacame a body with no desires, no thoughts~only eternal readiness.

Banzo smiled, and began lessons. Soon
Matajuro was the greatest swordsman in Japan.

Shadow_King
"They may take our lives but they'll never take our FREEDOM"-William Wallace

"Conquer your fear and I promise you'll conquer death!"-Alexander

"Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill, not to break traffic laws!"-Q

amity75
It's shite being Scottish! - Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting.

amity75
They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean it,
but they do.

Philip Larkin, This be the verse.

lil bitchiness
Be the change you want to see in the world. - Gandhi

Meki_Nade
"lobbeth thy holy hand grenade" monty python and the holy grail big grinbig grinbig grin

dean7879
If a man hasn't found anything he will die for.. he isn't fit to live''

dean7879
they think its all over..it is now - commentator - england vs germany 1966 world cup final.final score 4-2 to england!!!!

one world cup and two world wars doodah doodah!!

Papaumau
"Pick your friends, don't let them pick you"....My Grannie.

And here are thousands more....Well..not actually thousands ! smile

http://www.internetbumperstickers.com/philos.html

big gay kirk
There's ten miles between "should" and "is"

dreams are like the stars... we may never reach them, but oh! how we profit from their presence...

its the job thats never started as takes longest to finish....

what a person says about you says a little about you, and a lot about them....

dean7879
victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory,
there is no survival.

Napalm
Trying is the first step towards failure- Homer Simpson

Storm
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

dean7879
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Clovie
my friend:
'learn, just few more days and you'll be able to reset your memory'

KharmaDog
Fear is the impetus of courage. - Unknown

I try not to believe that there such things as "destiny" or "fate". The idea that our lives are set out for us robs us of our capacity to live in the present, and dream of the future. I do however believe in Karma. Put out as much good as you can, because it will come back around, as will the bad. - Me smile

Alpha Centauri
"There's no disgrace in failure. Only in the cowardice of not having tried."
-The Silver Surfer.

-AC

Deano
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. - churchill

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Deano
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls

Deano
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.' Churchill's reply: 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

laughing

Red Superfly
I'm surprised no-one has mentioned this one:

"With great power, comes great responsibility" - A reason why Spider-Man excels as a comic book hero.

"In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down"

"You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over."

"It's bad luck to be superstitious"

"If you feel you have no faults ... there's one"

Capt_Fantastic
*see my sig.

BadKitty
"Wow. Must be nice to hope for the thing you wish to want... Sure beats doing it."

from:"Yes You Can't"

BlackC@t
"Sometimes to do what's right we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most, even our dreams."

I love that quote. It's taught me a lot.

This is something my mother use to tell me:

"Sacrifice is a key to responsibility, responsibility is a key to understanding who you really are."

Red Superfly
Ah, and I like this one from the Cat Stevens song, Father and Son:

"You will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not"

Curl_Up&Dye
the scene in the movie Fight Club where Brad Pitt explains why he broke into the store and pretended like he was going to kill the japanese guy.

"tomorrow morning his breakfast will be the best he's ever eaten"
....etc etc

gls
"during ur life, the stars will always be there to enjoy
but ur love may not be.."

"being loved is a great feeling, but to give love to someone and have them return it back is that much greater"

---Me

tabby999
"if at first you dont succeed, its probably because your crap" - Frenzal Rhomb

AdventChild
I'd rather be hated for who I am
Than to be loved for what I am not....
-Unknown-

AdventChild
"They say practice makes perfect
But since no one is perfect why practice?"
~My Brother~

BullitNutz
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."

"Shoot, coward! You're only going to kill a man."

-- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Revolutionary.

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy." -- Marquis de Lafayette*

*Lafayette was the French commander of the army of 8,000 French soldiers that, with the help of ~6,000 American soldiers and a fleet of French ships, blockaded and trapped British Gen. Cornwallis at Yorktown, leading to his surrender, ending the (US) Revolutionary War. (http://www.marquisdelafayette.net/)

Alpha Centauri
"Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

"If you're gonna be late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy your breakfast."

"Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots."

"Statistics are like a lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination."

"There's no 'I' in 'team', but then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. There's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure."-All by David Brent from TV's The Office.

-AC

BullitNutz
"There's no 'retard' in 'Team'" -- Nameless kid from one of those fenslerfilms GIJOE PSA's.

Alpha Centauri
Ironically a retarded quote.

-AC

jaden101
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

laurence binyon

onward the brave

william wallace

AdventChild
Originally posted by Deano
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: 'Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.' Churchill's reply: 'Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

laughing


LOL!!!! laughing

AdventChild
Life is primarily for Laughing, Loving & Living, not for whining, worry or working.

Fionnuala
"Take into a account great love and great achievement involve great risk" -Ghandi ....i love this quote, it's me helped out..

"Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again." - Mary Pickford

"A truly great friend is hard to find, hard to leave and impossible to forget"

"There are no strangers in the world- only friends you haven't met yet"

AdventChild

leonheartmm
life is a *****, thats y man's best friend is a dog.

Deano
enjoy life...or i'll bash ya skull in

Alpha Centauri
Hahahahahaha.

Fresh off the new Family Guy episode, North by North Quohog:

Lois: Honey, whaddya say we christen this new sheets huh? Hehehe.
Peter: Why Lois you NAUGHTY girl.
Lois: Hehehe, that's me.
Peter: You dirty hustler...
Lois: Ohhhh hehehehe.
Peter: You filthy, stinky prostitute...
Lois: Hahahaaa ok I get it....
Peter: You foul, disease carrying, street walking whore....
Lois: THAT'S ENOUGH!

-AC

Alpha Centauri
Another:

Peter: I am so clever. That's why they picked me to convince congress to go to war.

*Congressional meeting*

Politician: There is NO justifiable reason for invasion of Iraq.
Peter: Well that may be, but what we're all forgetting is: Anyone who doesn't want to go to war......is gay.

-AC

ragesRemorse
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri


"Statistics are like a lamp-post to a drunken man - more for leaning on than illumination."

-AC


dude, i love that.

heres one that will live on in the battlefields though

"may God have mercy on my enemies, because i surely wont" patton

finti
f*uck off wink

AdventChild
The only time you fail is when you havn't tried...

Deano
The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!

Deano
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

lil bitchiness
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.
Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it.
Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past.
Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you.
Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests.
After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

~Buddha

Deano
The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

Deano
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.
Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it.
Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past.
Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you.
Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests.
After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.

~Buddha

nice quote

leonheartmm
cheating pays!

lil bitchiness
Originally posted by Deano
nice quote

yes Buddha was very wise man.

leonheartmm
found out who u r and do it on purpose

Deano
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies

Deano
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.

leonheartmm
out of everything i was told in my entire life half was a complete and utter lie, the other half was a carefully constructed lie, the truth is hidden sumwhere between the lies,

Deano
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

leonheartmm
one who challanges fate is both the bravest and most stupid being alive.

Deano
Grandpa: My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star.

Deano
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

If you lose hope in other people, then they will lose hope in you. However, if you continue to love them and be there for them, then they will always be there for you.

Life is filled with happiness, sadness, tears, smiles, laughter and other emotions but when life gets you down, just be strong about it and keep your head up high and have faith in all things in life. Always remember: God is at your side, always.

"Life is not about what I`ve done, what I should`ve done, what I could`ve done... it's about what I can do and what I will do."

There are some things in life that don't go the way you want them to or the way you think they should, but you can't dwell on these because you'll miss out on other opportunites. Don't give up on something just because you don't think things will work, you won't know unless you give it a try. But don't hold onto something that left a long time ago, because sooner or later you'll realize some things just aren't meant to be."

Sometimes we are too busy trying to get through a closed door that we miss the open window beside it."

Don't doubt, dream."

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