What Is Your Favorite Quote?

Sometimes in reading we come upon a quote which gives meaning and better understanding to us. These are a few that mean a lot to me. Do you have a favorite?
Gary/Louisville

“The secret of life is not to do what you like but like what you do!”

“What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others lives forever.”

“People make mistakes, that’s why pencils have erasers.”

“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God and yourself!”

“People are like gifts. Find out what’s inside!”

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
~ Princess of Wales Diana ~

The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

Good ones, they make you stop and think.

Only one life will soon be past
Only what's done for Christ will last

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start my friend, anyone can start from now and make a brand new end." ~ Carl Bard

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Alva Edison

My favorite is, "You can't push a rope."

Says a lot, doesn't it? LOL

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming. . ."Wow, What a ride !" :-)

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

truly words to live by
drew

"All I can say is that history has been made.' He looked around and said,'But this is terrible'. I tapped my temple with my finger and told him,'you should see what it looks like in here." -Vonnegut

Padre, I loved the quote! Who are you quoting or is it something that you thought up?D

No matter where you go, there you are.

If I had known I'd live this long I would have taken better care of myself.

"Whether You think You can or Think You can't, either way You're right"

attributed to Henry Ford

"The Truth (truth) will set you free". I have stories on that one.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Ah, yes, anastatia, " the truth will set you free" is sooooo very true.

"Be careful what you wish for, you might get it"

"never say 'never', it angers the gods"

Cheri'

hrm.. i've got quite a few that i like *g*
"do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!"
i dont know why..but i just love that
lol

"If you really love something,
you'll let it go. If it's really yours, it will come back to you."

"Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice, and fear, walk hand in hand"

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience."

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. "

"A man smart enough to understand women is also smart enough to keep quiet about it."

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

"Because we do not know when we will die, we think of life as an inexhaustible well. "

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic"

"Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear"

ok.. there's way more of them that i like.. but i'm gonna stop there :)

Kim

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

"Only in our dreams are we free, the rest of the time we need wages"
Terry Pratchett


To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao-tzu

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

If someone presses your buttons its because you have buttons.

If you see someone without a smile, share yours.

Kidneyguy, just passing along tid-bits that have floated past me, source unknown.

" The day you were born, everybody was happy-you cried alone.
Make your life such, that in your last hour all others are weeping, and you are the only one without a tear to shed!
Then you shall calmly face death, whenever it comes."

Dag Hammarskjold, former Secretary General of the United Nations

"If someone's talking about you, their giving someone else a break."

"Every action has a reaction."

"Old dogs don't find new tricks."

"This is the day The Lord has made, rejoice and be glad in it."

"Love means never having to say your sorry."

My dad has a T-shirt that says "Old age and treachery overcome youth and skill" He always cracks me up!

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you=words to live by

PADRE, I think "Wow, what a ride" would be a fitting epitaph for my headstone!!!! I wonder what the "neighbors" would think. (LOL)
Pati

When my daughters were growing up they used to say "I want this" or "I want that" and my favorite quote was to say

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need"

You can tell what generation I came from.

To this day my DD's hate that quote!

"Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much!"

A couple that have been favorites for years...

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- Albert Einstein

lol tombstonejan
i love that song! :)

Isn't it the truth. I think that we pray for this and pray for that or we want this and want that but our higher power, be it God or Mom, always seems to give us what we need, not always exactly what we want.

Rest in Peace--he didn't want to kill a baby dragon.

Shall I be the first to say...what???

It appears that something was deleted from the first part of catlover's post. :) Sorry, but I don't understand it either...

hmmm, baby dragon = snake, right?

Just trying to figure it out.

Cheri'

My Mom always said: "You can either be good or lucky, but lucky's better."

Don

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

I don't know if that is my favorite, but I use it a lot.

When I worked, and did a lot of lengthy (and expensive) systems projects, we would sometimes have to remind the customer: "speed, price, and quality: pick two."

When you think about it, it's pretty true with most things in life: you can have something fast and cheap (but probably not high quality), fast and good quality (but it'll cost you a pretty penny!), or cheap and good (but don't expect it anytime soon.)

Personal favorite expression? Mmmm, at least one of my favorites is a scripture written by the apostle Paul: "...for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content." (Philippians 4) I'm still a long way from reaching the level of contentment Paul is describing, but I hope I can get there someday ;o)

If you throw something away you will probably need it the day afterward.
Don't know who said this, but it works for me!

I use this one on my wierdo neurotic dog when he's acting like a goof to try to get my attention. (p.s. I made it up, so go easy... lol)

"What's your malfunction junction?"

I feel more like I do now than I did. And, Free advice is worth every penny.

Carpe Diem! That is, seize the day, enjoy the present, as opposed to placing all hope in the future.

Celia, I have a great wav file of Robin Williams saying that very thing -- I've used it for my e-mail sound!

I like this quote from Proverbs 3: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths".

It helps me remember that I am NOT going to understand everything in this life, as much as I wish I could, and that He is the one who ultimately directs my paths. That's a very comforting thing to me.

I like these...

"Memory is the one paradise out of which we cannot be driven"

"If you're not the lead dog the view never changes"

"I'm only as strong as the coffee I drink, the hair spray I wear and the friends I keep"

"No one can take advantage of you without your permission"

"Fear is the little darkroom where negatives are developed"

"If you're lonely when you're alone you are in bad company"



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