[Bass Guy]

I was just wondering if anyone has any cool quotes, original or not, that mean something to you...

"So it appears I'm forever mislead,
and all that I know is all in my head."
- Josiah Pagoota

[GuardianAngel]

You know when it is love when you can't stand the sight of seeing the person you love in a circumstance that is very unloving. THe best way to do is help with no conditions stringed to your motives - by me

[FTS]

"It's all fun and games till someone pokes an eye out... then it's just fun you can't see" - by someone?

[quasar]

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -Jim Elliot

"I am pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. I am blessed beyond the curse for His promise will endure. His joy is gunna be my strength." -from Trading my Sorrows

[Kati]

"I am pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. I am blessed beyond the curse for His promise will endure. His joy is gunna be my strength." -from Trading my Sorrows

And also 2 Cor. 4:8-9...

[baseballboy]

"Be who you are and say what you mean. Those who care don't matter and those who matter don't care." ~Mark Twain

[quasar]

Originally Posted by Kati

And also 2 Cor. 4:8-9...

Oh yeah, I knew that. I cut and pasted those quotes from a long list of quotes I collected by cutting and pasteing from other places.

[Jc]

Remember that no one can take your honor from you. You surrender it. - John McAnally

[Tracy]

Originally Posted by Kati

And also 2 Cor. 4:8-9...

Niiiice, Mrs. Wati.

[spiffyme]

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups :klol:

[Jonular]

If people complain about what you're doing, then you must be doing something right--someone reflecting on the criticism Bush has been getting

~Jon

[Jumpin4Jesus]

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
--Jack Penn

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso

"A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow."
--General George Patton

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
-- Wayne Gretzky

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
--Laertius Diogenes

“It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.”
--James A. Michener

“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”
--A.J. Reb Materi

“The first wealth is health.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.”
--Joan Welsh

“To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution.”
--Joe Cordare

“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”
--Walter Savage Landor

“Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.”
--Francois de Fenelon

“Two monologues do not make a dialogue.”
--Jeff Daly

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”
--Ira Gassen

“Work is the best method devised for killing time.”
--William Feather

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
--Mark Twain

“The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.”
--Ruth Benedict

“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”
--Anon.

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
--Carl G. Jung

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”
--A. L. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
--Clifton Fadiman

“Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.”
--Thomas N. Carruther

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
--Edward Young

“The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.”
--Anon.

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?”
--Frank Scully

“Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.”
--Frederick B. Wilcox

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
--Dr. Seuss

“The biggest liar in the world is They Say.”
--Douglas Malloch

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”
--William Arthur Ward

“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
--John Vance Cheney

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." --Anon.

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."
--Swedish Proverb

“One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.”
--Proverb

“The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.”
--Mark Twain

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

“It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.”
--Annie Gottlier
"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."
--Ruth Benedict

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
--Alan Alda

"The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it."
--W. Somerset Maugham

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." --Harvey Fierstein

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." --Oscar Wilde

“Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right.”
--Anthony J. D'Angelo

“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.”
--Henry Boye

“Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.”
--Harriet Nelson

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness”
--Edward Stanley

“The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!”
--Anon.

“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
--Samuel Johnson

“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”
--Adolph Monod

“I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.”
--Abraham Lincoln

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
--John Ruskin

"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail
what you resolve."
--Benjamin Franklin

"He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not
every day surmount a fear."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no other solution to man’s progress but the day’s
honest work, the day’s honest decisions, the day’s generous
utterances and the day’s good deed."
--Clare Booth Luce

"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so as of now." --Pearl S. Buck

“The only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.”
--Michael Curtiz

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
--Auguste Rodin

“To lose is to learn.”
--Anon

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
--John Dewey

“If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.”
--Frank Lane

“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
--Adam Smith

“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
--Malcolm S. Forbes

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
--Plutarch

"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out." --Grace Pulpit

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What I do, I do very well, and what I don’t do well, I don’t do at all.”
--Anon.

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
--John Lubbock

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
--Chinese Proverb

“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.”
--Anon

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
--Natalie Goldberg

“Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.”
--C.D. Jackson

“If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.”
--Anon

“Think you can, think you can’t; either way, you’ll be right.”
--Henry Ford

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
--Eva Young

“An apology is a good way to have the last word.”
--Anon

“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?”
--Anon

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
--Mark Twain

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”
--Claude McDonald

“Only a few things are really important.”
--Marie Dressler

“The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.”
--Todd Ruthman

“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.”
--Edward Young

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
--Anon

“Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.”
--Victor Kiam

“I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
--William J. Lock

“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half- inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
--Robert Brault

“Education is learning what you didn't know you didn't know.”
--George Boas

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.”
--Patrick Toche

“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
--André Gide

“Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?”
--Anon
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
--Anon.

“A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.”
--Geoffrey Norman

“You will forgive people more easily when you end your need to make them wrong.”
--Brian Koslow

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
--Sigmund Freud

“No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.”
--William Boetcker

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
--Lyndon B. Johnson

“If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.”
--Benjamin Franklin

“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.”
--John L. Spalding

“It is possible to be different and still be all right.”
--Anne W. Schaef

“This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.”
--Thomas F. Woodlock

“Nothing is so often irretrievably missed as a daily opportunity.”
--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.”
--Vernon Luchies

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
--Blaise Pascal

“If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.”
--Robert Hillyer

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
--Benjamin Franklin

“There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.”
--Henry Moore

"Day's sweetest moments are at dawn."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
--Benjamin Franklin

“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.”
--Anon.

“He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn its teeth.”
--Charles C. Colton

“Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
--David Lloyd George

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
--Ayn Rand

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
--Chinese Proverb

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
--William James

"I love the famous words of men
who give us food for thought,
just never fail to reach in
to the words Jesus taught."
--by me!

[RJ1]

Wat Da Problem Is by Martin Lawrence (In the movie National Security).

[God's Jedi]

"Play that funky music, white boy"~ Wild Cherry

[Rach]

Originally Posted by God's Jedi

"Play that funky music, white boy"~ Wild Cherry

YES! I love this quote!