Inspirational Quotes

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Any have any they'd like to share? There's a few I've seen on peoples' sigs that I've liked but will wait for the original posters to put them here. Here's a few of mine:

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And, be assured, you'll find a difference,
As we his subjects have in wonder found,
Between the promise of his greener days
And these he masters now
- Henry V, II, 4,
William Shakespeare
 
An ambition is what you want to do, motivation is what gets you there, and accomplishment is the result of the hard work.
 
Get me a beer, princess.



Just add princess to almost anything, and it sounds awesome.. lol


And those vv down there..
 
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - M K Gandhi

An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind. - M K Gandhi

If all Christians behaved like Jesus Christ, there would be no other religion.
- M K Gandhi

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. - M K Gandhi

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

He is richest who is content with the least. - Socrates

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Confucius
 
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

T.E. Lawrence
 
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Thedore Roosevelt
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Love this quote...
 
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves" - Paul Valery (1871-1945)


"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment" - Dorothy Nevill

"You may forget with whom you've laughed, but you will never forget for whom you've wept" - unknown


And here is a funny one:

"There are people who I know won't hurt me...I call them corpses" - Randy Milholland
 
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And sheperds we shall be, for thee my lord for thee, power hath descended forth from thy hand, may our feet swiftly carry out thy command. So we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teaming with souls shall it ever be.
 
"Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're probably right" -Henry Ford

"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." or "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin (debated)

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. ~ Benjamin Franklin :D

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. - Don Marquis
 
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi

"Through every dark night, there's a brighter day." - TS

"If you believe then you can achieve." - TS

"If God brings you to it, he'll bring you through it." - TS

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm." - Abraham Lincoln

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

- Marcus Aurelius
 
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. And it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. And when it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

~Marilyn Monroe
 
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