Inspirational Quotes

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  1. japhy4529

    japhy4529 House Bassist

    I'm curious to learn about the quotations that have been inspirational to members of this forum. The focus can be on any topic and may originate from famous or non-famous people. Please note the author of the quote, if known.

    Here are some quotes that have inspired me...

    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge

    "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau

    “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

    "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts

    Several from my favorite author:

    “The only truth is music.”
    ― Jack Kerouac

    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums

    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
     
  2. imalcolm

    imalcolm New Member

    "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
    - attributed to Mark Twain
     
  3. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member



    I LOVE that one!!!!!!!!!!

    Abner :smile:
     
  4. friendorfoe

    friendorfoe Active Member

    "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe" - Albert Einstein

    "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain

    "you can't outsmart stupid"-uknown

    "I don't know enough to know what I don't know" -unknown

    "change is constant, inevitable and inconvenient" -unknown
     
  5. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Oh man, you are killing me FF. Good quotes!!!!!!!! I really have to pull myself away so I can get my buns (nalgas) to work.

    Abner :)

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  6. perrymk

    perrymk Member

    Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
    -Jim Fiebig
     
  7. 03310151

    03310151 Active Member

    Someday, I would like to go home. The exact location of this place, I don't know, but someday I would like to go. There would be a pleasing feeling of familiarity and a sense of welcome in everything I saw. People would greet me warmly. They would remind me of the length of my absence and the thousands of miles I had travelled in those restless years, but mostly, they would tell me that I had been missed, and that things were better now I had returned. Autumn would come to this place of welcome, this place I would know to be home. Autumn would come and the air would grow cool, dry and magic, as it does that time of the year. At night, I would walk the streets but not feel lonely, for these are the streets of my home town. These are the streets that I had thought about while far away, and now I was back, and all was as it should be. The trees and the falling leaves would welcome me. I would look up at the moon, and remember seeing it in countries all over the world as I had restlessly journeyed for decades, never remembering it looking the same as when viewed from my hometown. - Henry Rollins
     
  8. sideman

    sideman Well Known Member

    Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, your mind can achieve.

    -Napoleon Hill
     
  9. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    "Anger is a poison we drink hoping it will kill someone else."
    attribution unknown
     
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    ryoder New Member

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  11. eilla05

    eilla05 New Member

    I love quotes....I could go on and on as I have pages and pages of them...but these are some of my favs :)

    "At every moment, by our actions, we are choosing who we are being. Our existence is never fixed or finished, every one of our actions represents a fresh choice" Jean-Paul Sartre.

    "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

    "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." - George Bernard Shaw

    “The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” – Heraclitus

    “When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”--W. Clement Stone

    “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity...Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie

    "Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Washington Thurman
     
  12. friendorfoe

    friendorfoe Active Member

    Glad you like them, I have quite a few more. Twain is the most quotable human who ever lived.
     
  13. japhy4529

    japhy4529 House Bassist

    Great quotes. I especially like the one above by Sartre.
     
  14. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    "Police officers are a group of remarkably ordinary people whose unfortunate distinction is that they must regularly function in the face of extraordinary human stress, and sometimes in the face of indescribable human tragedy" - Dr. George Kirkham

    "There is more law at the end of a policeman's stick than in a decision of the Supreme Court" - Inspector Alexander S. "Clubber" Williams, NYPD 1898

    "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free" - President Ronald Wilson Reagan

    "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't sit for a month" - President Theodore Roosevelt

    "Nearly all men can stand the test of adversity, but if you really want to test a man's character, give him power" - President Abraham Lincoln

    "A society that makes enemies with its police had better make friends with its criminals" - Unattributed
     
  15. eilla05

    eilla05 New Member

    That is my current fave!!! Actually took this from one of my textbooks :) Speaks volumes.
     
  16. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

    “Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
    George Santayana, (1863-1952). Poet, novelist, Harvard professor of philosophy (1907-12).
     
  17. major56

    major56 Active Member

    "I don't know what bravery is, sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it." ― Audie Murphy


    "I never like being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did - guys who were killed." ― Audie Murphy


    “No soldier ever really survives a war.” ― Audie Murphy

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  18. friendorfoe

    friendorfoe Active Member

    "A two year old is like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it" - Jerry Seinfeld

    Being that I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old at the moment...that quote is as true as if God himself dictated it and put it in stone.
     
  19. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator


    Hahaha!!! SO true!!

    I don't miss those days!
     
  20. BlueMason

    BlueMason Audaces fortuna juvat

    "Don't dwell on the past, don't dream about the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment" -- Buddha

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

    "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." Mark Twain
     

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