When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contributions to the world.

Andy Granatelli
Professional racecar driver

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

~ Anatole France

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

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

~ Anne Sullivan

"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

Mark Twain

The future belongs to those who fuse intelligence with faith, and who with courage and determination grope their way forward from chance to choice, from blind adaptation to creative evolution.

Charles E. Merriam (1874-1953)
Civic reformer and politician

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

-- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Molly Bawn, 1877.

Less is more.

-- Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto, 1855.

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

~ George Marshall

Visa is everywhere you want to be, except out of debt.

It's not who you know, it's who they know.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
28th U.S. President

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Great one, Johnny!
Thanks.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Writer

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
~ Henry Louis Mencken

(hi everyone, my first post :)

If Harley-Davidson made an airplane, would you fly in it?

"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~ A.A. Milne

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

Decimus Junius Juvenalis (c. 60-127 a.d.)
Poet and satirist

"the truth will set you free/but then so will a lie/ it depends if you're trying to get to the promised land/or you're just trying to get by" - ani difranco

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

Mort Zuckerman
Publisher

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain; its impressions are unmistakable--Marquis de Sade

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

Speed gets you nowhere if you're headed the wrong way.

-- American proverb

A friend will help you move... A true friend will help you move Bodies

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
~ Socrates

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard."

~Steven Wright


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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
~ H.L. Mencken

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Antonio Porchia (1886-1968)
Writer

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

~ Anonymous

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"Prizes are for children."
~ Chrales Ives, upon being given, but refusing, the Pulitzer prize

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

~ Claude M. Bristol

"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."
~ Albert Schweitzer

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa

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

-Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut."
~Albert Einstein

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Henry Miller (1891-1980)
Writer

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

~ Gilda Radner

We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich (1946-2002)
Actor

"Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl."
~ Bruce Raeburn.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Lance Morrow
Journalist

"Victory goes to the one who has no thought of himself"
~ Shinkage School of Swordsmanship

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ John Barrymore

"In your seeing," he said, "there should be only the seeing. In your hearing, nothing but the hearing; in your smelling, tasting, and touching, nothing but smelling, tasting, and touching; in your thinking, nothing but the thought."

-Khuddaka Nikaya

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"Think about what you're thinking about..."
-me

"If you chose to dance with a bear, don't stop when you get tired."
~Russian Proverb

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

~ Steven Tyler ~

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers
nor the downward rush of the stream;
sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
-Loy Ching-Yuen

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

~ George Eliot

A lot of dust becomes a mountain.

(I forgot the source, but I think it's a Chinese or Japanese saying)

When drinking water, remember its source.

-- Chinese proverb

Grace has been described as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

~ William Hazlitt

I can't lift with my legs. I don't have any hands on my legs.

-radio station commercial-

Love is like the sea, it's a moving thing; but still it takes its shape from the shore it meets and it's different with every shore.

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960)
Writer

Find reasons to do the important things, instead of reasons not to do them.

Ernie J. Zelinski
Consultant

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists of being wise in time.

-- American proverb

The door to opportunity is marked "push."

-unattributed

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

~ Thomas Carlyle

To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed.

~ Bernard Edmonds

"Don't be fooled by the real thing"

- ARTelevision

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

~Charles Dickens

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
~ Harry Truman

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

~Carol Shields

If our service is not up to your standard, please lower your standard

Restaurant sign

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
~ Helen Keller

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

(Art: Neato!.. I didn't think of that for quote for some reason)

edit2: so yeah, i found it and changed it... then realized you fixed had it in your post.. hehe

GakFace,
If you put even a partial quote into Google, it will find the source...
Thanks!

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger. "
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The stumbling way in which even the ablest of scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulations, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks."

-- James B. Conant, Science and Common Sense, 1951

"I wish I had a girlfriend." -- Me, everyday.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

~C.H. Spurgeon

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

-- Albert Einstein, What I Believe, 1930

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"
-Bill Hicks

Take yourself less seriously

-ARTelevision

There are finer fish in the sea than have ever been caught.

-- Irish proverb

oberon, good one, thanks!

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa

That quote is incredible. Thanks.

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving.

~Mother Teresa

...it's also how much give we put into loving.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)

Fame is when a bunch of strangers think they know you.

-ARTelevision

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is the ultimate challenger; nothing can ever defeat or escape it.

-- oberon

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

~ E.E. Cummings

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

~ Anatole France

Thus times do shift,
each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed,
as former things grow old.

-- Robert Herrick, Hesperides: Ceremonies for Christmas Eve, 1648

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

~ Henry Miller

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

-- Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California, 1927

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

~ Vince Lombardi

One day I'll stop waiting.

Probably right after I die.

People actually eat spam.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

~ Richard DeVos

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Alice B. Toklas

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

~Richard Bach

Learn to wish
that everything
should come to pass
exactly as it does.

-Epictetus

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -

- Abraham Lincoln

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949