Quotes to Live by!

[StevieC]

So in another thread I posted a couple quotes and I got to thinking... Whats your favourite quotes that inspire you?

Mine are as follows:

Be the change you want to see in the world
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't you're right.
- Henry Ford

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
- Steven D. Woodhull

 

[asiancivicmaniac]

Brevity is the soul of wit - somewhere in Hamlet

 

[FowVay]

I learned my two favorites the hard way:

Never EVER take your brake hand off the rope (you air-assault and mountain guys will know what I'm talking about)

Never EVER throw a grenade up hill.

Note: these aren't 'quotes' you hear daily,,, but they are quotes you hear in certain environments.

 

[StevieC]

I have done rock climbing... I know what you are talking about, I too learned the hard way.

The second one is funny.

 

[Barbell7]

"There is only one success...To be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley --- 1890 to 1957

 

[rg200amp]

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Ben Franklin

 

[Turk]

Mine:


Life's short - eat dessert first.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted By: tpitcher

Mine:


Life's short - eat dessert first.

I'm adding that one to my collection.

 

[demarpaint]

Man plans, God laughs.

No good deed goes unpunished.

From my car selling days:

All customers lie!

Liars can figure, figures can't lie.

Money talks and [censored] walks.

 

[StevieC]

I like the one... "In god we trust, everyone else pays cash!"

 

[donz26]

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you'll get"--Forrest Gump

"You can't fix stupid":--local radio talk show host (the late)Jim White

 

[Patman]

"have a good time, all the time" Spinal Tap

 

[01rangerxl]

"You're talking about bringing guns to an intervention, and you're drinking wine out of a soda can..." - therapist on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

 

[Pablo]

Or die by:

"OH $%*&"

"Here hold/watch this"

"Not sure how big it is"

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All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

-Sir Edmund Hillary

 

[Audi Junkie]

http://mughom.wizage.net/#sayings

 

[MarkC]

Originally Posted By: Pablo
Or die by:

"OH $%*&"

"Here hold/watch this"

"Not sure how big it is"

___________________________________

All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.



-Sir Edmund Hillary


You know, Pablo, I think it was Edmund Burke you meant to give credit to for the quote, not Hillary.

 

[Pablo]

Yeah oops. Sorry.

 

[StevieC]

When in doubt check with MarkC

 

[Colt45ws]

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth." --Flannery O'Connor
"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women." -- Lord Kelvin

 

[crinkles]

"pound sand"

Bill in utah.

i actually used it today... stupid driver didn't give way on a one-lane bridge... grrr.