Great quotes - great reads.

xiggi · Jul 4, 2013

I like quotes I know some fund them cheesy but I do get something from them. Came across this one today. Feel free to add any you like.

“It's not the critic who counts. It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled. Credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dust, sweat, and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come short and short again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. It is the man who actually strives to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm and knows the great devotion, who spends himself on a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement. And, who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and cruel souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

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21cExp · Jul 4, 2013

Great idea for a thread, Xiggi.

I keep a notepad file for quotes I run across that I like. One that comes to mind right off is actually a poem, but works well as a quote:

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S.Eliot

paullud · Jul 4, 2013

Both are from Larry Winget.

"It’s not what bothers you that is the problem, it’s what has stopped bothering you.”

“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy or stupid.Those are the things that*happen when you don’t have a plan.”

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Murraycroexp · Jul 4, 2013

Breaker breaker, here comes the caper!!

- House Of Pain

21cExp · Jul 4, 2013

An all time fav quote from Mark Twain:

"If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember anything..."

I told my grandfather this quote one time. He liked it so much he put it on the blackboard at the back of his garage so he would see it every day. Occasionally, as he scooted around the nose of his Oldsmobile, he'd brush against the blackboard and erase some of the quote with a shoulder or his back and would have to rewrite it. Over time the quote become quite rearranged and didn't quite make the same sense anymore.

Sort of like me trying to quote a contemporary Buddhist principle that says "There are only two things to remember in life. 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. It's ALL small stuff.

When I tried to quote that to a friend I said, all profound-like, "Only two things you need to remember. Don't sweat the small stuff, and there IS no small stuff." I saw the guy's puzzled look and furrowed brow, then thought about what I'd just said and went "Oh dang, wait, that's not right!"

Maverick · Jul 4, 2013

"A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man only once".

Good to see a fun thread going. Whew, what a breath of fresh air this is.

Ragman · Jul 4, 2013

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. - Will Rogers

21cExp · Jul 4, 2013

Ragman said:
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. - Will Rogers

That's a really good one, from the man who never met another man he didn't like. Cool museum about Will Rogers in Claremore OK: Will Rogers Memorial Museum. Will Rogers is a terrific source for memorable quotes.

OntarioVanMan · Jul 5, 2013

I've found this appropriate, especially relating to the forum activity...

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
Thomas Jefferson

EnglishLady · Jul 5, 2013

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves

William Shakespeare

Turtle · Jul 5, 2013

"Get it while it's hot! Get it while it's buttered!"

- Bugs Bunny

Doggie Daddy · Jul 5, 2013

Half of the lies they tell about me aren't true. Yogi Berra.

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cheri1122 · Jul 5, 2013

xiggi said:
I like quotes I know some fund them cheesy but I do get something from them. Came across this one today. Feel free to add any you like.

“It's not the critic who counts. It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled. Credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dust, sweat, and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come short and short again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. It is the man who actually strives to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm and knows the great devotion, who spends himself on a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumph of great achievement. And, who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and cruel souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Sent from my Fisher Price ABC-123.

Cheesy? Not at all, it's the plain truth: it's easy to criticize the efforts of another, particularly if you know your own efforts can't be criticized in return, because you didn't make any.
My own favorite quote is Mark Twain: "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."

Moot · Jul 5, 2013

21cExp said:
Sort of like me trying to quote a contemporary Buddhist principle that says "There are only two things to remember in life. 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. It's ALL small stuff.

I read a similar quote from a cardiologist in an article about dealing with stress.

Rule 1. Don't sweat the small stuff.

Rule 2. It's all small stuff.

Rule 3. If you can't fight and you can't flee, then flow.