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