2006-07-28 09:49:14 · 49 answers · asked by villafan 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.”
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.”
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
“To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get”
2006-07-29 02:06:39 · answer #1 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I have several. I have a wing tattooed on my right shoulder because of the last one.
"Sometimes things don't work out the way you want. but you have to be strong enough to deal with it."----------Walker, Texas Ranger
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.
~anonymous~
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." -Gilda Radner
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seus
"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing each other." -Comte de Bussy Rabutin
2006-07-28 09:53:53 · answer #2 · answered by Yarn Junkie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
2006-07-28 10:06:57 · answer #3 · answered by Serch 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The past is history
The future is a mystery
Today is a gift
That's why it's called the present
2006-07-30 05:20:37 · answer #4 · answered by Rollester 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
overheard this on byres road (Glasgow) - and apologies for the sweary words!
Man 1 to Man 2: hey yoo, yoor a pr*ck ya cu nt!
Have to say that is the best ive heard, oh and of course, the oxymoronic fannybaws!
2006-07-30 02:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by Allasse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twains discription of golf as "a good walk wasted"
Groucho Marks who said "you are only as old as the woman you feel"
Sir Winston Churchill, "Yes ma'am and you are ugly but tomorrow I will be sober"
These are classics.
2006-07-30 08:15:43 · answer #6 · answered by scallywag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. From Malachy McCourt
2006-07-28 09:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by bulladawudz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before. Charles Dickens, A tale of two cities
2006-07-28 10:02:37 · answer #8 · answered by Charlie Brown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A man never stands taller than when he's on his knees praying to God.
2006-07-28 12:45:55 · answer #9 · answered by Jeffrey M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last of the human freedoms-is to choose ones attitude
on any given set of circumstances,to choose ones own way.
2006-07-28 13:25:04 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋