What's your favorite quote?

Question

Nothing goofy. I mean, like a long quote. By Alexander Pope, or someone like that.

Someone inspirational. Or at least deep.

Answer 1

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.
-Blaine Lee

Engrave this Quote You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store
makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.
And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides.
-Garth Brooks

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
-Robert Stuberg

Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason.
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
-Carl Gustav Jung

I love all of these. Your taste might might not be the same as mine but I hope I helped in some way.

Answer 2

FYI, "the best way to predict the future is to create it" was the great Peter F. Drucker....I also like....
"Hell is other people" Jean Paul Sartre
"There are three types of lies...Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics" Benjamin D'isreali
"God is Dead...and man has killed him" Friedrich Nietszche
"What does not kill me makes me stronger" Friedrich Nietszche
"Man is condemned to be free" Jean Paul Sartre
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see" Arthur Schopenhauer
"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week" George S. Patton
"Common sense is hardly ever common" Voltaire
"The more one learns, the less one knows" Aynonomous
"True genius lies in winning without fighting" Sun Tzu
"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect" Niccolo Machiavelli

I could go on and on with this....

Answer 3

If it turns out to be a joke at the end, I'm going to be so pissed at whoever started it

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth

"Life sucks and then you die amen."

The rest of your life starts right now....so do your best, have fun and enjoy it!"

All I want from Life is to get out alive..."

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

Life's too short...dance naked!"

"Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret."

Life isn't about who's right, it's about who's left"-

You are alive. So live."

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it....walt disney

Imagination is more important than knowledge. albert einstein

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."


"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
John Lennon

"If you live your dreams, you'll never have to wake up."
Anonymous

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

"Life imitates Art and Art imitates Life!"

"Art is what poetry can't describe; Poetry is what art can't picture."

"As an artist, English is my second language."

Answer 4

"Well behaved women rarely make history" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Mine are kinda short but mean a lot a few more are

Half the truth is a whole lie

believe none of what you hear, half of what you read and all of what you see.

more like adages but still good I think

Answer 5

Here's one of my favourite quotes:
"Learning is the product of plain hard work and natural intelligence, and (is) not to be measured necessarily by the approval of superiors or adherence to customs and traditions."

Neither "goofy" nor long, it has inspired me, and will continue to inspire me - whether I am learning or teaching.

Answer 6

"did you be attentive to they took my gall bladder out? it is sitting in the wellness facility in a jar! that the place they save them i assume..." it particularly is from the action picture Fried green Tomatoes, a quote by potential of leave out Ninny Threadgoode. :) how strange is it that that individual suited above me has a quote from a action picture with "Tomatoes" in that subject? i did no longer think of movies approximately tomatoes have been that nicely-known! haha!

Answer 7

We don't have a right to judge a person unless we do what he does better than himself
another one here....................
A person without making a mistake does not probably make any thing
but I exactly don't know who the poet is

Answer 8

oh, theres so many!

Here's one:
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
~Douglas Adams

Answer 9

"If ever you find a job you love you will never work a day in your life". E. Roosevelt

"There are no Aethiests in foxholes" Douglas MacArthur

Answer 10

"You invite a witness when you want to speak well of yourselves; and when you have seduced him to think well of you, then you think well of yourselves"

from Zarathustra in Fredrich Nietzsche's book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

theres lots of good quotes from that book but theres just one