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I am a collector of inspiring quotes. I use them in my class room a lot. I thought I would share two that I like and see what great quotes you guys have.
"I would rather be a has been then a never was." William Shatner
"Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of success at the wrong thing." Source unknown.
“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” – the Buddha
I am a collector of inspiring quotes. I use them in my class room a lot. I thought I would share two that I like and see what great quotes you guys have.
"I would rather be a has been then a never was." William Shatner
"Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of success at the wrong thing." Source unknown.
I'm at a loss. The ones I know sound trite and over-used... I'm getting too cynical and sarcastic I guess.
Now if you need something more along Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, or even Jonathan Winters, then I'm your girl.
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Personally, I'm fond of quotes by Patton:
"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time."
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."
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"There are two rules you should follow in life. Rule 1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule 2: Everything is small stuff." - heard it first from my dad almost 30 years ago.
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Ghandi
I go through periods of collecting quotes. Here is my latest collection, although all of them are not germane to your purpose.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.
- Upton Sinclair
I made myself a house, out of bibliomania, covered with dementia.
- Carlos Maria Dominguez
An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed… one must approach from behind the person who is under an illusion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There’s no Hades but the heart./Nothing that has ever gone in there comes/out as itself—if at all, as a song.
- Kurt Leland (“The Adolescence of Orpheus”)
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
- Robert Frost
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- H. L. Mencken
God is a comedian playing to a crowd that is too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
Humor is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit… How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don’t have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.
- Ogden Nash
[Christianity is] the most humorous view of life in world-history.
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what yuo're gonna get"
-Forrest Gump
"no matter what anyone says, there is always a choice, you just need to find the courage within yourself to choose it"
-Me
"true equality only exists in the wild"
-unknown author
"do not let anything define your life, let your life define what you do"
-Me
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"Show up to practice, play your guts out, and don't write on the f%+&ing walls."
- Henry Rollins
"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others."
- Henry Rollins
"The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."
- Henry Rollins, Do I Come Here Often?
"When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?"
- Henry Rollins
"I'm a person just like you / but I got better things to do / than sit around and f*+@ my head / hang out with the living dead /snort white shit up my nose / pass out at all the shows / I don't even think about speed / that's just something I don't need / I've got the straight edge"
- Ian MacKaye, "Straight Edge"
"It doesn't matter, in the long run. You're never gonna see these people again. Just get up there, have fun, do your thing, and leave."
- Nelson Shapiro