Quotes to live by

[new_juan]

Hey All,

I want to start a post devoted to quotes. Here are some of my favorite quotes.

On manhood

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of man you long to be.
--Carlyle--

Thinking, not growth, makes manhood. Accustom yourself, therefore, to thinking. Set yourself to understand whatever you see or read. To join thinking with reading is one of the first maxims, and one of the easiest.
--Isaac Taylor--

On Confidence

Self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
--Channing PollockCalm--

On advice

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.
—Syrus—

I will add more quotes if there is a good turnout.


[This message has been edited by new_juan (edited 07-24-2002).]

 

[Don diego]

a wise man learns from his mistakes, an even wiser man from the mistakes of others.

welcome to the board

 

[JADT]

my favorite is....

Hesitation is like masturbation,in the end you're only screwing yourself.

Getting a woman is no secret,her staying forever happily married to you is.

 

[Nine Breaker]

Hesitation
Live each of your days as if each is your last. After all, what guarantee is there that you will see tomorrow?

Failure
The only way to truly fail is to give up trying.

Heroes
Do not strive to follow in the footsteps of a great man. Strive instead to BE a great man that others will follow.

Fear
A man of courage is not a fearless man, he is a man who controls his fear instead of let it control him.

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Since the moment of your birth, you have been destined to die. Nothing you can ever do will change this from happening.

However, you CAN change what will happen from now until then, but only if you dare to try.

DO YOU DARE?

 

[Giovanni Casanova]

On hesitation

"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
David Viscott

On rejection

"To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to."
Moliere (1622 - 1673)

On success

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success."
Thomas J. Watson

On mankind

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

On doubts

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

On happiness

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

On positive thinking

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have to power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius




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CASANOVA

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

 

[THIAGO BRAZIL]

"baby, dont step on my blue suede shoes"
Elvis

 

[Kanadasutra]

Originally posted by THIAGO BRAZIL:
"baby, dont step on my blue suede shoes"
Elvis

I used a similar opener this week.. very effective! hon!

Nice thread with nice quotes! I was a library rat when i was younger but i was lost in the wrong section: Kafka, Poe, Kant, Rousseau, Beaudelaire, Milton, Cioran, etc.. All those negative inspiration!

There is an autobiography of Kafka that is soooooo AFC!!!

If you find that book, burn it!! (No! No! Autodafe is not a good thing!)

With all those quotes, you give me back the taste of falling asleep with a great book you are not able to close!

I once looked at encyclopedia of quotes at university and that was soooo boring!!!

That's why i still prefer quotes here and there in misc post rather than in a single thread or list like here. It has less impact.

Here's mine anyway:

On goal achievement:
"Tu peux pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre."

LOL

 

[Hoogie]

Where's the sauce gone?
-My mum after i hid the sauce from her.

Where's the sauce?
-My sister after i hid the sauce from her too.

Come on you piece of sh!t work!!
-My brother copying me after hearing me yell at my playstation the day before.

BAAAHHHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
-My and I after one of my friends stalled their car at the lights.

BAAAAAHHHHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
-My friend and I after they stalled it for a second time.

WHAT??
-Stone Cold Steve Austin

Where's the sauce gone you little punk?
-Stone Cold Steve Austin after i hid his sauce.

Hello.
-Some dude on the street who i don't think was all there.

Excuse me, where's the stationary section?
-Some old lady who came into my work, looking for some stationary i'm assuming.

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<==Hoogie==>
I'm not afraid of the price i pay.
I won't lie down as you walk away.
<==Hoogie==>

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[lil devun]

"you cant get famous doin ***** ****"
"give'r"
"lifes too short not to go big, you gotta go big"

 

[ESPN]

"bye bye"
John Travolta

 

[Komodo]

The world is full of guys be a man!!

You can't please all of the people all of the time!!

 

[Aiken_Drum]

“No one wants advice - only corroboration.”
--John Steinbeck

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
--Erica Jong

Amen!

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"In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness" Duncan Idaho, Mentat (Dune).

"I can imagine a perfect world, a world without hate, a world without war. Then I can imagine us attacking that world
because they'd never expect it." --Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts"

 

[AncientDj]

---- Life is like an ass.F**ck it before it shuts you----


---- Always be the best of the best and do not bring shame on your fother's name---- Homer-Iliad

---- Fire, water and woman are the 3 catastrophes of mankind ---- Ancient Greek proverb(Heraclitus)

 

[Monkey]

V

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Shoulda, woulda, coulda are the last words of a FOOL!

 

[dead_romeo]

"When in doubt, fûck".




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"Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. Hence, the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions and yet act diametrically against them time and time again; and have as the only explanation for their behavior the idea that to err is human." Carlos Castaneda - The Fire From Within

"It is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong" - Harlan Ellison

 

[Ron Juan]

MY FAVORITES:

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the conquest of fear.

Success is getting what you want; happiness is loving what you get.

Without risk, where would our success come from?

No man is an island, but if he digs a defensive moat around himself, he can feel like one.

The best way to judge the value of someone's advice is to count the number of times they've taken it themselves.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; shallow minds discuss people.

People use duct tape to fix everything; God uses nails.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for the rest of his life.

Those who think they can, or think they cannot, are ALWAYS right.

---That's it for now

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[PIPE-DJ2002]

" I DONT KNOW WHAT THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS BUT THE KEY TO FAILURE IS TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYONE, PLEASE YOURSELF."

"EVERY FRIEND U HAVE STARTED OUT AS A STRANGER"

"I DONT GIVE EXCUSES FOR MY DESIRES AS A MAN, I DONT GIVE EXCUSES FOR MYSELF, I MOVE THROUGH THE WORLD WITHOUT APOLOGY."

 

[PIPE-DJ2002]

"IT ONLY HURTS U, IF BOTH UR PUPPY AND UR MOTHER REJECT U."

"LIKE ANYTHING ELSE IN LIFE THE MORE U PRACTICE DOING SOMETHING STRESSFUL, THE MORE EASIER IT BECOMES TO PERFORM."

 

[Donnell Juan's RamPaGe]

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

-- F. A. Hayek

It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

--Paul Johnson

you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other men's approval.

--Nicholas Flood Davis

What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

--Eric Hoffer

 

[Aiken_Drum]

"Lazyness is like dying a slow death"

"Remember my name... you'll be screaming it later"

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"In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness" Duncan Idaho, Mentat (Dune).

"I can imagine a perfect world, a world without hate, a world without war. Then I can imagine us attacking that world
because they'd never expect it." --Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts"