meaningful quotes thread.

[Mikem93]

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds
Albert Einstein

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Kurt Cobain

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

You cant be scared to die for the truth, the truth is the only thing that is constant

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

Ray LeBlond

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon

Alexander Pope

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F Kennedy

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Douglas MacArthur

 

[Nevizade]

'Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself.'

Ferris Bueller

 

[Cellarite]

"Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon Bonaparte.

"It's my belief that history is a wheel. ' Inconstancy is my very essence ,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away." Boethius

 

[BlueHammer85]

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm''

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else''

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty''

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter''

( winston churchill )


“[I doubt] one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing 'Sweet Dreams' and thinks ... 'She might have a point there, you know?' ”

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world''

(Noel Gallagher)


Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

(George Galloway)

 

[TurnUpTheMoon]

It's not that I'm smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few quid in the machine.
Flip Wilson

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
Jim Carrey

 

[jamiegrimble]

Dont get mad;Get Even.

 

[Q8-Blue]

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
Frans Boaz.

It might sound pretty PC today in this era, but in the early 20th Century when a renowned academic was saying it, it was pretty radical.

 

[stony]

"A drunk mind performs what a sober mind craves."

"If some **** can fuck something up, that **** will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up, because that ****'s a ****."
"Love is never perfect."

"I am capable of looking on the bright side - I just don’t do it very often."

"Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it."

"They say love ain't fair. I'm doing fine."

Who said that?

Some ****

 

[TheMidnightClaret]

When I'm feeling tired I always use this quote Athlete:"I'm running out of strength", coach: "then you negiotiate with your body to find more strength" from the movie facing the giants.

Another good one for any hard training: "Pain is weakness leaving the body"

Another one for running: "you get what you settle for"

A good one to help in dangerous situations: "would you rather live for nothing or die for something" from rambo

Motvator: "Luck is for the ill prepared"

"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing"

I like to use this one in cage fighting, paticularly when I'm taking a pounding: "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even"

Inches speech from any given sunday "I don't know what to say really. Three minutes till the biggest battle of our professional lives. It all comes down to today. Now either we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play, till we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell. One inch at a time. Now I can't do it for you. I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces, and I think... I mean I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me, and lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you. That's part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches. And so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean... one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow too fast, you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this - in any fight, its the guy whose willing to die who's gonna win that inch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because that's what living is! The 6 inches in front of your face... Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think you're gonna see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it, you're gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen. And either we heal, now, as a team, or we will die, as individuals. That's football, guys. That's all it is. Now, what are you going to do? "

Speech from Rocky VI, the bold bit is the best part and true in both life and sport. Sometimes it's not about what you can do but what you can take. " Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!"

One to help you keep going " Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up"

Another one I like to have my trainer tell me in my breaks in a cage fight "You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face"

Another sport one " It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys"

And another " It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse"

Love this one for the world and for sport " pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity"

one that helps me keep going "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before"

As long as you've not given up you still have a chance "“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”"

Another one I use at running "If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record."

And another "When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

one final one "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. "

 

[lee-mcfc]

"when your pissed if shes not fit still...smash her backdoors in"
By Lee

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Kurt Cobain

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Eminem




love this one below

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.