If you're not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination.
Joe Tye
Motivational speaker and coach

Every experience is a learning experience. Every time we try something--win or lose--we learn, we grow, we attain more confidence and competence for the next time.

Pat Williams
Basketball executive

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allen Poe

Nothing causes self-delusion quite so readily as power.

~ Liu Binyan

I feel like this doesn't fit here with these inspiring quotes but ....

-"Procrastination is like masturbation, you just end up fucking yourself in the end."-

Where has all the good porn gone?

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
~ Johann von Goethe

Hope is a waking dream.

~ Aristotle

To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Agnes Repplier (1855-1950)
Writer and historian

All the happiness in the world can't buy you money.
-???

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon



~To our wives and girlfriends, may they never meet. ~

birthdays suck without anyone to share them with.
-me

Military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music.
-Julius (Groucho) Marx

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953)
Writer

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - Albert Einstein

Listen or your lips will keep you deaf - American Indian Proverb

The ones people call crazy for trying to change the world are the ones that do - Anonymous

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another - Proverbs 27.17

It's not paranoia if it keeps you alive

Life is hard...its harder when you're stupid

If its stupid but it works...it isn't stupid

Deny everything...admit nothing...make counter accusations!

Learn it right and you'll do it right the rest of your life. Learn it wrong and spend the rest of your life trying to get it right

A pessimist says comprimize is the root of every solution

There will always be some curve ball in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Photographer

bottom of the Desiderata....

Strive to be happy.

This thread deserves a good smack to the ass to bump it up!

What counts is not the number of hours you put in....but rather what you put into the hours.

~ unknown

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Elizabeth Cameron

A careless word may kindle strife.
A cruel word may wreck a life.
A timely word may level stress.
A loving word may heal and bless.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

~ Herm Albright

"Patience is passion tamed."

~Lyman Abbott

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~ Martha Washington

The trick is to love somebody.…If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Writer

don't run with scissors

No matter how good in bed you think you are there is always someone out there that you couldn't get off.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

William Safire
Journalist

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

~ Albert Einstein

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life. The facts of life.

-The Facts of Life (Theme Song)

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
~Agnes Repplier

"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 - "Atlas Shrugged"

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~George Sand

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny (1886-1952)
Nurse

"See the world face back to one
the seventeen degrees of fun."
Ædenji

The snowflakes are perfect
The stars are perfect
Not us
Not us
We are here to ruin ourselves and break our hearts
And love the wrong people and die

-John Partick Shanley, Moonstruck

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

~George Iles

There is no heaven without a hell!
~SLAYER

If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.

Anonymous

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
36th U.S. President

"Those who believe in fate are too weak to control their own future."
-Arno Lebenhagen

What is necessary is never a risk.

Jean-Francois-Paul de Gondi (c. 1614-1679)
Clergyman and politician

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

~ Confucius

Love rarely overtakes, it mostly comes to meet us.

Wilhelm Stekel (1868-1940)
Psychoanalys

All warfare is based on deception

Sun Tzu

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

~ Demosthenes

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Writer

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough" -Einstein

/i think

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

~ William Osler

"It's not what you see that is art, art is the gap."

Marcel Duchamp

"Nobody is completely useless, they can always serve as a bad example"

Chumbawamba

you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.

Roger Miller

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Writer

Every once in a while I foget that I can't use the word "Faggot" without offending someone.

Reminds me of:

"Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do."

Too true.

"Why do you cry when you know how the story ends?
How can you laugh, when you know that it hurts your friends?"

--Streetlight Manifesto

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton
Journalist

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Danish proverb

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Politician

"When you know what you know that you know what you know, then know that you know what you know that you know."

Just a long way of saying, "Don't second guess yourself."

-Pastor Agard

ignorance is NOT exclusive - me

the truth comes knocking on your door and you say, go away, i'm looking for the truth. so it goes away.. puzzling - robert m. pirsig

I POSTPONE DEATH BY LIVING, BY SUFFERING, BY ERROR, BY RISKING, BY GIVING, BY LOSING..
-anais nin

Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

~Pasquier Quesnel

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers
Writer

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken.

Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990)
Psychiatrist

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

~ Geoffrey F. Abert

As I told my son at one of our.... TALKS..... I'm learning this as "I" go along.... Life did not come with a instruction book

"Dont Drink Guinness then smoke a cigar" - Me

Success never rests. On your worst days, be good. And on your best days, be great. And on every other day, get better.

Carmen Mariano
Educator and writer

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

~ Lou Holtz

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical Saying

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

I'm a Mom couldn't help myself ;) I will admit some of these I just found after reading this thread, and I will save them for the future ;)!

Great thread and wonderful thoughts!

I'm driven by my own destiny.


And the need for beer and sex.

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Stephen Gaskin
Writer and lecturer

It is how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

~ David Feherty

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood
Politician and actor

"If you're not taking flak, you're not over the target".

You gotta live it up.


'Cause you're so fuckin' money and you don't even know it.

I learned more from conversing with my teachers than from listening to their lectures. I retain the information from the conversation better too.

Hope ever tells us tomorrow will be better.

Albius Tibullus (c. 55-19 b.c.)
Poet

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
U.S. Army General

There are two things that are infinite: human stupidity and the universe, and I'm not sure about the latter. -Albert Einstein

Time is the ultimate enemy. -unknown

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Writer

It's like every time I think I meet a nice girl she ends up being just like me.

"Between the Idea and the Action,
Falls the Shadow."
~T.S. Eliot~

b. 1888
d. 1965

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

~ Vince Lombardi

It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.

~ Richard Braunstein

"When in doubt, pull the trigger. If still in doubt, hold the trigger," - Me

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

~ Max Depree

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood

-Freeman Teague

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Make it idiot-proof and they'll make a better idiot. -unknown

Lifes a bitch and then you die

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the people with a desire to learn is hammering a cold iron.

-Horace Mann-

To keep the one you love you have to let them go.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

~ Saint Augustine

Life's short and hard, kind of like a bodybuilding elf.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

~ Vernon Sanders Law