What's your favorite quote?

Question

What's your favorite quote & why? This is mine...
If you're feeling frightened about what comes next, don't be. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness, don't waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, each moment, as it comes; because you'll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart... where your hope lives. You'll find your way again. - Gilmore Girls.
It's my favorite quote becouse it gives me hope. It tell's me it's okay to wonder & not be certain about my life. It tells me that everything's going to be okay no matter what. It makes me feel happy. It tells me that my life doesn't have to be planned for every minute of every day.
So what's your favorite quote?

Answer 1

"The first man to raise his hand in the heat of an argument is a man who has run out of ideas."

Answer 2

This is one of a collection known as THE NOTEBOOKS OF LAZARUS LONG, which has a long story behind it. I'll put a link to it that explains where it's from.

http://www.angelfire.com/or/sociologyshop/lazlong.html

"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can--and must--be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly--and no doubt will keep on trying."

It's my favorite quote from anywhere, just because in my time I've had faith in a lot of things, and lost faith in a lot of things. The one truth I ALWAYS believe is "Women and children first!"

As a runner up, I offer this: "It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier."

Answer 3

I like lots but the ones that comes to mind at the miniute are -
DESIDERATA - Max Ehrmann.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
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IF- by Rudyard Kipling:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

I like those above because they are both guide and inspire me to be a better person. and the one below because it is aa ironic twisted version of the true verse which ends differently
If you love something ...
set it free.
If it comes back ...
its yours.
if it doesnt ...
then hunt it down & kill it.
.

Answer 4

Live in the Sunshine, Swim the Sea, Drink the Wild Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's just life as I'd like it :)

Answer 5

At the moment, I'm into humourous quotes, so here's one you've probably all heard before:

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't"

- Unknown

Answer 6

if ya can't stand the heat then get outta the kitchen!! i like this quote cause i use it at least 3 times a day haha or oh my goth (it's from the amazing race 12)

Answer 7

"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
-Liz Smith

"Destiny is not matted of chance; but a matter of choice."
-William Jennings Bryant

these quotes inspire make something of my life and to build
a name for myself.

one day i want to be inspire someone with something i say.

Answer 8

"It doesn't matter what other people think of you it just matters how you think about yourself" this is my favorite quote because it shows the truth and if you feel bad about yourself then you need to get up and feel better if someone calls you a ***** it shouldnt bug you!!

L!v3 LiF3 0uT tO ThE fULL3sT!!

Answer 9

You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Answer 10

"Laughter sounds the same in every language." I like this quote since it has a lot of meaning. =)