I need a quote!?

Question

It doesn't matter who it's from, as long as it's accurate. I need it for the start of my personal statement which I intend to write for my application to University. It needs to be amazing as I am to be a mature student, I want to go to a good uni, and have no qualifications. My entire future relies on my personal statement, and the entire personal statement relies on a good beginning and a good beginning relies on a good quote!
Thanks

Sorry, I want to study a joint history/English lit degree

Answer 1

Well, it really depends on what you want your personal statement to be - how do you want to come across? Bold? Fun-loving? Ambitious? Passionate? Rebellious? There are great quotes for all of these, but you first must decide the theme of your statement.

Here are some ideas that may help:

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." - Eleanor Powell

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." - George Bernard Shaw

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is." - Albert Einstein

Hopefully those will get your creative juices flowing. Once you decide on a theme, check out the link below to find more quotes by topic. Good luck!

Answer 2

Here are a couple of my favourites
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
Malcolm S. Forbes

Answer 3

“Be your own best friend and don’t forget to wink at yourself now and then.”
Diane von Furstenburg

“ If you don’t know where your going.
Any road will take you there.”
George Harrison

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom, one helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.”
James Oppenheim

“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.”

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
Doug Floyd

“Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you”

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.”

Answer 4

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

Answer 5

carpe diem - seize the day! is a good one for mature students - lets you elaborate on seizing opportunities, life experience etc. Good Luck

Answer 6

"Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations."

Charles Dickins (from Great Expectations)

Answer 7

you have not said what you want to study. If you dont i9 can not give you a relevant or pertinent quote. I.e i HAVE THE SEA IN MY BLOOD. i WAS BORN TO DO THIS. i SLEEP EAT AND DREAM NURSING...THEY ARE EXAMPLES.

Answer 8

They said they would give me the world, but the world is not enough

Answer 9

http://www.leadershipnow.com/quotes.html

Try this you should find something here. Remember that you need to be sure that you tell them your source and why you chose it good luck.

Answer 10

You are going to like this. Not alot. But you will like it!

Paul Daniels.