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Motivational Quote for the Day

pompanopompano Posts: 1
edited 2011-08-02 13:24 in General Discussion
I personally love quotes. I think it really gives us motivation and good insights about life and other aspect in life. There are too many quotes that had been written and some are from famous and prominent people or person.

Feel free to list some of your favorite motivational quotes here.

I'll start:

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

And hai I am Pompano, I am new :)
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  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-07-21 12:58
    ...or misquotes:

    Winston Churchill

    Quote: “The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, s*d*my and the lash.”
    Churchill did not utter this phrase at all – his assistant (Anthony Montague-Brown) did. What Churchill did say later was that he wished he had said it.


    Welcome to the Forums!!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-21 13:34
    Someone else on this forum had this and I liked it:

    "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2011-07-21 14:07
    "A complex design is the sign of an inferior designer."
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-07-21 15:31
    Hi Pompano -
    Welcome to the Forums!
    -Matt
  • Maddie the InternMaddie the Intern Posts: 81
    edited 2011-07-21 15:50
    One that gets me pumped everyday:

    "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying: "I will try again tomorrow." "
    -Mary Anne Radmacher
  • WBA ConsultingWBA Consulting Posts: 2,935
    edited 2011-07-21 17:44
    When You Earnestly Believe You Can Compensate For A Lack Of Skill By Doubling Your Efforts, There's No End To What You Can't Do.

    If A Pretty Poster And A Cute Saying Are All It Takes To Motivate You, You Probably Have A Very Easy Job.

    It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-21 19:25
    And those (de)motivational posters are great, too.
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  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-07-21 19:28
    "Never give a sucker an even break, and never wise up a chump."
    -W. C. Fields
  • localrogerlocalroger Posts: 3,452
    edited 2011-07-21 19:34
    Another often misquote:

    "No good deed goes unpunished."

    Often attributed to Orson Welles. Welles was actually quoting the Marquis de Sade.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-21 20:05
    Six Phases of a Project:

    1) Enthusiasm

    2) Disillusionment

    3) Panic

    4) Search for the guilty

    5) Punishment of the innocent

    6) Praise and honors for non-participants
  • iDaveiDave Posts: 252
    edited 2011-07-21 20:09
    =It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.

    ...Man, is that a depressing quote! (but sometimes true)

    I also am a collector of quotes and these are the best I've heard...

    "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

    ""When one teaches, two learn" - Robert Half

    "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - SOCRATES

    “How much of human life is lost in waiting.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "The less you talk, the more your listened too" - ABIGAIL VAN BUREN

    “A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.” - John Steinbeck

    "Authentic power is gained through vigorous participation in life, coupled with an openness to new experiences, emotional sure-footedness, strong ties to other people, the ability to find interest and pleasure in whatever we encounter and, most of all, the ability to construct meaning in our lives."

    “Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody
    with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends” - Joseph Campbell
  • SSteveSSteve Posts: 808
    edited 2011-07-22 00:00
    mindrobots wrote: »
    rum, s*d*my and the lash

    That's my second-favorite Pogues album!

    One of my favorite quotes is from Homer Simpson: "Life is just a bunch of stuff that happens."
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-07-22 00:28
    "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once..." - John Wheeler
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2011-07-22 02:01
    Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
    Chinese Proverb
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-07-22 03:06
    One of my favorites...

    Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-07-22 03:11
    An Italian friend of mine who owns a small construction business came to visit me one day as I was attempting to paint the ceilings in my house. He promptly started to motivate me with the sayings he offers to his laborers:

    "Work well and work slowly. If you cannot work well at least work slowly"

    "As a minimum, you have to start."

    When guys come to him looking for work he says:

    "Work we have lot's of. Money, no."
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-07-22 07:09
    "If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind."

    Kurt Vonnegut, in Player Piano.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    edited 2011-07-22 07:11
    "The future ain't what it used to be"
    -- Yogi Berra

    "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer
    industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry
    didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
    -- Douglas Adams

    "Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it. "
    --Chinese Proverb
  • PoloPolo Posts: 4
    edited 2011-07-22 07:15
    I know this really isnt motivational but here's one I like:

    "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -George Santayana

    And welcome to the forums!! I really cant say much because I just joined also, but welcome pompano!!

    ~Polo
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-07-22 07:21
    Attributed to Stalin,

    "Quantity has a quality all it's own."
  • BigFootBigFoot Posts: 259
    edited 2011-07-22 07:29
    Its hard to figure out what to fix when you don't know what is broken.
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-07-22 07:56
    Welcome to you too, Polo!

    "Inventions have long since reached their apex. I see no hope for future developments."
    Julius Frontinus, World famous Inventor, 10 A.D.

    -Matt
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-07-22 08:02
    "MATT!!!!! Get in here!!!"

    -Ken Gracey, often

    :smile:
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-07-22 08:29
    "Give a man an inch, and right away he thinks he's a ruler." Maxwell Smart, Control Agent 86
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2011-07-22 08:40
    many of my favs

    http://wilk4.com/humor/humore10.htm
  • RinksCustomsRinksCustoms Posts: 531
    edited 2011-07-22 09:23
    "Life is shorter than you think, live!" -myself, age 16 to present. (having my last rights read to me after being mortally wounded in an ATV accident)
  • DaveJensonDaveJenson Posts: 375
    edited 2011-07-22 09:29
    "Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth." Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-07-22 10:20
    Here's some motivation for you. I didn't know I was a welfare case until I heard Alan Greenspan say this:

    "Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.”

    Of course, I'm sure he wasn't talking about Financial Analysts when he said high-income people.

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  • RichKRichK Posts: 54
    edited 2011-07-22 10:45
    Couple Yogi's -
    We made too many wrong mistakes.
    If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

    Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

    In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- Johann von Neumann

    and then
    Do or do not; there is no "try." -- Yoda
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2011-07-22 11:41
    "Lazy bones. Sleeping in the sun. How you ever gonna get your work done, sleeping in the sun?"
    My dad's little diddy when I was a kid

    "There is nothing new under the Sun." paraphrased and often attributed to Solomon.
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