What is your favourite quote?

Question

Mine is “what you do speaks so loudly, I can’t hear what you’re saying”…Mark Twain

Answer 1

"I could'nt wait for success, so I went ahead without it" - Norm Wisdom

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." -- self help quote by Jim Rohn

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley quote

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel" - Ambrose Bierce

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.”
Abe Lincoln

"Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."
- Dorothy Galyean

"Success is getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get"

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Answer 2

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


Or

"It's better to regret what you did rather than what you didn't do"

My dad, though I don't suppose it was originally his.

I liked this question, and reading all the other quotes.

Answer 3

I have a few:

"It is better to be hated for what you are. than loved for what you are not." André Gide

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element ... It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather ... I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether the crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized." Haim Ginott

"Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love." Lao-Tsu

Answer 4

Often have I encountered evil in this world. Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark lord whose shadow I extend.

From Eco's Myterious Flames of Queen Loana. It can be taken as a negative connotation, meantime as Chesterton wrote on his essay as to the problem of the world, "I am. Sir."

Answer 5

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out - Walter Winchall. It is a philosophy I try and live by, because I believe that true friendship is irreplacable

Answer 6

I'm torn between 2
I'm prepared to meet my maker, whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter
Churchill

or

Only 2 things are infinite The universe and human stupidity. Of the former I am not sure.
Einstein
You decide

Answer 7

A well-trained mind is made up, so to speak, of all the minds of past ages: only a single mind has been educated during all that time.

Bernard De Fontenelle

Answer 8

My best quote is " Knowledge is like a deep well fed by perennial springs, and your mind is the little bucket that you drop into it; you will get as much as you can assimilate." Lala Har Dayal.

Answer 9

Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Answer 10

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

T.S. Eliot - LIttlt Gidding