Hi,
I am compiling an ebook and looking for some great quotes on life and motivation. Please send as many as possible with the name of the person associated with it.
Thanks in advance
2007-02-19 17:21:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace {Quintus Horatius Flaccus} 65-8 B.C.
2007-02-19 17:44:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming WOO HOO - What a ride!"
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Nin
Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
"If you think you can, you're right. If you think you CANT, you're also right.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead
"If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is thinking."
Everything you can imagine is real
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life
Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you can or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. GOETHE
2007-02-19 18:08:31 · answer #2 · answered by MissWong 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always liked the old Arabic proverb, "Trust in God, but tie your camel."
I have quote-o-rama bookmarked (first link below). Some are hit or miss, but here's a good one:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know in this world, and all ye need to know. ~John Keats
And the definitive source, of course, is Bartlett's -- on line at Bartleby.com
2007-02-26 07:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by jacketprof 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite quote of all time:
"...I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment. I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage." --John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley"
2007-02-20 20:33:34 · answer #4 · answered by MD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
This is my favorite quote ever:
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world Frodo, besides the will of evil.
2007-02-19 17:26:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mistakes only make me stronger, Sometimes You have to get hurt to know what true love feels like, Never mind what a hater got to say ignore em till they fade away. Imperfection is beauty. Madness is Genius. And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring - Marylin monroe i believe everything happens for a reason people change so you can learn to let go things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right , you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together -Marilyn Monroe
2016-03-15 22:26:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One night i had a dream.
I as walking on the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark skies flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two set of footprints in the sand.
one belong to me and one to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life flashed before me.
I look back at the footprints in the sand to my surprise,
I noticed that many times along the path of my life
the was only one set of footprints.
I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest
times of my life.
This always bothered me.
and i questioned the Lord
about my dilemma.
"Lord, you told me when i decided to follow you,
You would walk and talk with me all the way.
But I'm aware that during the most troublesome
times in my life there is only one set of footprints.
I just don't understand why, when i needed You most,
You leave me"
He whispered " MY precious child,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set or footprints
it was then that i carried you"
2007-02-25 03:17:28 · answer #7 · answered by mala 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Check out the various Chinese Proverbs, there are thousands, and they simply explain some of life's most basic tenets.
2007-02-19 17:25:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search at Yahoo with keyword "Chinese proverb", you can find some links relevant to Chinese proverb in English. You can also search at Yahoo China with keyword "格言", then you can find links relevant to original Chinese proverb.
2007-02-19 21:56:39 · answer #9 · answered by happyworm 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great site
http://pearls-of-wisdom--inspirational-quotes--sa-swicki.eurekster.com/inspirational+quotes/
2007-02-27 04:05:58 · answer #10 · answered by Prajnananda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋