Your best Quotes

loyolabenson

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May 17, 2007
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Motivational, Funny anything

what are some quotes that you picked up in your lifetime? share some wisdom, I'm bored
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Albert Einstein

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”
-Warren Buffet
 


I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. -- Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)


I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. (Back then!) -- Thomas Jefferson 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
 
Some of my favourites:

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. - Napoleon Hill

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Herman Cain

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills

You don't want to do the wrong things in a way that is causing real damage to the world and people. But you also need to make progress, and that's not always going to make everybody happy. - Larry Page

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky

Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you are right. - Henry Ford

It's never too late to become what you might have been. - Anon

Excellence can be achieved if you risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible. - Anon

If I'd have listened to my customers I'd have given them a faster horse. - Henry Ford

If you do not believe in yourself, do not blame others for lacking faith in you. - Brendan Francis.

It's not about how we fall over, but about how we get back up. - Anon

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison

To choose not to try, because you're afraid of failure, is surely choosing to be a failure, through not trying at all. - Anon

If you always do what you've always done, will always get you what you've always got. - Henry Ford

We are or we become those things we repeatedly do. Therefore excellence can become not just an event, but a habit. - Albert Einstein

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. - Anon

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. - Napoleon Hill

Decisions determine destiny. - George Patton

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Success is never ending, failure is never final - Dr Robert Schuller

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, great actions speak to all mankind. - Anon

It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it. - John Crowe

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. - Yogi Berra

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

Do nothing that is of no use. - Miyamoto Musashi

The man who follows the crowd will ussually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - John Cocteau

Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. - Frederick Edwin Smith

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned. - Struther Burt
 
give me a paperclip...and I will kill the entire terrorist group of AL QAEDA - Mcgyver
 
That's about as useful as a G rated pron flick! - no clue

What was, was, and what is is is, and this what is... is what's happening right now. - Paul Sr.

''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne
 
There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living- Nelson Mandela

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”-Robert Frost

“All the darkness of the world cannot put out the light of one small candle.”-Anonymous

“Let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up into one ball.”-Andrew Marvel

“There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose.”- William M. Bulger

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have time.”- Steven Wright

“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”- Jules Renard

“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”- Burton Hills

“Strength does not come from Physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”- Mohandas K. Gandhi

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”- William Blake

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”- Ursula K. Le Guin

“There’s something in a simple hug that always warms the heart; it welcomes us back home and makes it easier to part.”- Jill Wolf

“Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.”- Georges Bernanos

“Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process.”- John F. Kennedy

“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”- Confucius

“If there is a way to over come the suffering, then there is no need to worry; if there is no way to overcome the suffering, then there is no use in worrying.”- Shantideva

“Your soul, you know, will live on. Your soul is you in others.”- Boris Pasternak
 
“What experience and history teach is this- that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”- Georg Hegel

“Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”- Socrates

“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”- John Locke

“Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you best do and become what you can potentially be.”- Erich Fromm

“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”- Henry David Thoreau

“Among the most essential qualities of human spirit are to trust oneself and build trust with others.”- Gandhi

“Things which matter most should never be at mercy of things which matter least”- Goethe

“We are shape and guided by what we love”- Goethe

“The world belongs to those with the most energy”- Alexis De Tocqueville, in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journal, 1862

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself”- Ralph Waldo, “Self-Reliance,” essays, First Series, 1841

“Things are almost always funny when you stop to look at your life from the other side of the street”-

“How many are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we’re living. – Einstein

“Were dreamed in the heart and that only the heart could hold”- Padraic Henry Pearse

“What dream are you willing to give your life for?”- The People of Ireland

“We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality”- Vaclav Havel

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open”- Alexander Graham Bell

“It’s ok to be with some one that doesn’t have anything but it’s not ok to be with someone that doesn’t want anything” – Cynthia Perry

“When you learn the power of love instead of the love of power then there will be world peace”- Zeitgeist

“No matter your sickness or mind set, time and will have been the cure for centuries”-Jimelle Watford

“Time is the substance I am made of .Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; Time is a tiger that can rip me apart, but I am the tiger; Time is a fire that can consume me, but I am the fire. - Jorge Luis Borges

“How shall I hold my soul that it may not be touching yours?”- Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hold your head high look the world straight in the eye”-Helen Keller
 
If all I have is ten dollars and I risk it, I am much braver than when I risk a million if I have another million salted away.
 
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

-Ayn Rand​
 
"If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it - it's cheaper in the long run." - Felix Dennis

@Ryan - are those your quotes? I thought your twitter account had been hacked by an xrumer spammer or something.