Quote of the Day - QOTD

[Guest3722A]

Here's a couple I like -

(paraphrased) Retire the broomstick handle and get off your fat a$$

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The toll weeds out the weak and escorts them to the land of normal

 

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[Buickestate]

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

unknown author

 

[DeletedUser396]

 

[TTG SS]

"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"

 

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[obrian]

 

[GuestUser140]

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Henry Ford

 

[Newpollz]

Is there any reward for good other than good?

 

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[Mr.Donnerhuhn]

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation.

Isolation is the gift.

All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.

You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

-Charles Bukowski

 

[Imgal]

My quote for today will undoubtedly not be the one for tomorrow, but one that always kicks me back into action when I look at others and want to be achieving what they are:

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be." - Elizabeth Gilbert

That kicks me into action pretty quick.

 

[Red]

Personal life motto:

Also this:

 

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[Andy Black]

"Tell me what you've done, and I'll tell you who you are."

 

[Iwokeup]

I am totally stealing this. AWESOME

 

[Red]

I am totally stealing this. AWESOME

Steal away! I loved this saying so much that I put it on the back of my business cards.

 

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[Iwokeup]

Steal away! I loved this saying so much that I put it on the back of my business cards.

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Sweet!

It seems to me that in life, whatever the circumstance, it's the person/family/team that embraces this motto that wins out.

I actually have a play on our family name that expresses this: "What does our family mean? 'We can, Dad.'"

Accompanied by eye rolls but also teaching a lesson...

 

[Chitown]

"One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down."

- Pauline Kael

 

[TheSilverSpoon]

A couple of my favorites

"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." —General George Patton (I think I stole this one from @Iwokeup )
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." —Frederick Douglass
"I like a man who grins when he fights." —Winston Churchill
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein


A few other good ones

"If you wait until all the lights are green before you leave home, you'll never get started"
"No excuses." - I think this one was @Vigilante in an old thread
"Go faster" - A controversial dolphin
"If you're not being told 'no' constantly, you're not pushing hard enough." -Shafqat Islam


And a couple of more mindset type ones

"One day you will wake up and wish you had done all the things you were afraid of. Fight fear, chase dreams."
"You speak to unsuccessful people, you hear unsuccessful stories." - A friend of a friend of @csalvato
"You will fail, you will suck, and it will take a while for that shit to stop happening on a regular basis. TRUST THAT THIS IS TRUE and life will be easier for you. (the upside is, at some point you stop sucking, and start really shining! )" - A controversial dolphin
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

 

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[Chitown]

@Red
The subject of your Meetup presentation. I'm really looking forward to hearing what you have to say on this subject.

 

[Chitown]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Blair]

"Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in."

 

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[Andy Black]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

I was wondering when that one would come up. It sends shivers down my spine every time...

 

[SharkWrestler1]

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." - Dale Carneige

 

[Mr.Donnerhuhn]

"And when you own your decisions, something miraculous happens. Failure doesn’t become the badge of victimhood—
it becomes wisdom. Deny accountability and responsibility and the keys of your life are given to someone else."

-MJ DeMarco

 

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[GSF]

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed"

 

[iAmTrade]

What man...is a man who does not make this world a better place?

-My self and always my goal, one person at a time, for all those I pass.


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[Andy Black]

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed"

Oooooo. Very nice...

 

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[Andy Black]

"The market does not pay for activity."



(Read this post and watch MJ's video in it.)

 

[Chitown]

I was wondering when that one would come up. It sends shivers down my spine every time...

@Andy Black

I can't quote it by heart but love the quote, nonetheless. This one is for all the armchair quarterbacks. I would think of this specific quote when I'd overhear someone talking shit about someone who lost a race or whose business had failed. At least that guy had the balls to get in the race. That woman had the courage to start that business.

I will always respect those who are willing to stand in the ring and keep their hands up for a few rounds.

 

[MassiveProgress]

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

~Jim Rohn

 

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[Dwight Schrute]

"Commitment isn't the time you spend; It's the line you cross."


"And the alien anthropologists, after exhausting
all possible explanations for the demise of the human race,
were forced to settle on the only reason left:
This species has amused itself to death."
-Roger Waters

 

[Daniel A]

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop." - Confucious



A mistake I've made many times. I feel anxious to make up for lost time. It's why I'm awake so late right now, haha.