What quote has inspired you?

Question

Mine is " The journy of a thousand miles begins with the first step"

Answer 1

Best quote ever.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt.

Answer 2

My favorite isn't a quote but a principle (most often heard in baseball): "You pay for believing anything that isn't so." In the game, it means that acting on false information will cause you to play less well and may cost you outs, runs, or the game; same principle holds in life -- faulty beliefs (religion, business, politics, etc.) will cost you in the long run; mistaken prejudices are not a luxury you can give yourself.

Answer 3

I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 4

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 5

- Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it. Mark Twain

- Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.Sir Henry Royce

Answer 6

There are two:

1. Woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have miles to go before I sleep

2. Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed

Answer 7

i really detest corny inspirational quotes. i get my strength from a poem:

The Waking
by Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
and learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Answer 8

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

-- John Stuart Mill

Answer 9

With Great Power comes Great Responsibility....

Answer 10

When the voice and the vision on the inside, become more profound, and more clear and loud, than the opinions on the outside, you've mastered your life. -- Dr John Demartini
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Here's the question I would ask you to consider; do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you? -- James Ray