Inspiring Quotes

[Young Athlete]

"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong. So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."- American History X

[chop]

I know one day, all our scars will disappear, like the stars at dawn
and all of our pain, will fade away when morning comes
and on that day when we look backwards we will see, that everything is changed
and all of our trials, will be as milestones on the way

[Thrice - For Miles]

Somewhere between happy, and total fucking wreck
Feet sometimes on solid ground, sometimes at the edge
To spend your waking moments, simply killing time
Is to give up on your hopes and dreams, to give up on your
Life for you,has been less than kind
So take a number, stand in line
We've all been sorry, we've all been hurt
But how we survive, is what makes us who we are

[Rise Against - Survive]

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?
You're the pretender
What if I say I will never surrender?

[Foo Fighters - The Pretender]

[Dogfish]

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

-Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)

[lovestolift]

"Knowledge by it's self is not power. Only when Knowledge is properly applied can we achieve true power." ...... I can't remember where I heard this one, but it rings true with me.

"Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici". A Latin phrase meaning "I by the power of Truth, while living, have conquered the Universe". Widely known as the quote that appears on the mirror that Evey is polishing in "V for Vendetta" (great flick). The true source is apocryphal at best, but it does not lessen the power of the sentiment.

[MrWalk]

“Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.”

Jack Handy

[Zero]

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what other people said you cannot do." ~Walter Bagehot

I wrote that one on my wall so I see it every day.

[Jim Slade]

1. "Accept everything just the way it is."
2. "Do not seek pleasure for its own sake."
3. "Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling."
4. "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
5. "Be detached from desire your whole life long."
6. "Do not regret what you have done."
7. "Never be jealous"
8. "Never let yourself be saddened by a separation."
9. "Resentment and complaint are appropriate neither for oneself or others."
10. "Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love."
11. "In all things have no preferences."
12. "Be indifferent to where you live."
13. "Do not pursue the taste of good food."
14. "Do no hold on to possessions you no longer need."
15. "Do not act following customary beliefs."
16. "Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful."
17. "Do not fear death."
18. "Do not seek to possess either goods or fiefs for your old age."
19. "Respect Buddha and the gods without counting on their help
20. "You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour."
21. "Never stray from the Way."

This is Myamoto Musashi's Dokkodo (the way of walking alone) he was likely the greatest swordsman ever to live, to the point where he stopped using the sword yet still killed armed men in duels.

[Rugger]

"In our country, true teams rarely exist. social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit...Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own." - Victor Cahn

[muddy]

"In our country, true teams rarely exist. social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit...Yet these rugby players, with their muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own." - Victor Cahn

I've never heard that one before. That's a damn fine quote.

[thunderdownunder]

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)

[GTB]

"Never let your emotions make your decisions"

[TheAnonymous]

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." - Kevin Durant

[Javasmurf]

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way."
- Lance Armstrong

[SupraFast]

Get busy living or get busy dying...That's God Damn Right!

-The Shawshank Redemption

[water4health]

lol what is with all the rippletoe quotes? they are hugely unimpressive. everything i have seen of rippletoe is unimpresive. i don't remember exactly, but vicente lombardi kicks ass...

"the will to prepare is so much more important than the will to win"