Quotes that inspire / motivate you.

Question is simple, do you have any quotes or statements that inspire or motivate you? Off the top of my head (and some Google research):

• "Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion." - Michael Jordan
• "It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others." - Mark Twain
• "Try and fail, but don't fail to try." - Stephen Kaggwa (that's the one for my story threads )
• "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - Dalai Lama
• "There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle." - Deepak Chopra

Do you mutter those to yourself during the 5 hours a day you spend on your association?

"I've failed over, and over, and over in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
- Conan O'Brien

"Me love you long time."

"Woman! Where's my sandwich!?"

And Deepak Chopra can suck monkey nuts.

"Let your actions impress and be your only reply; to hell with practice makes perfect, make perfection in practice. (and turn your opposition into disposable paper napkins)"

If you're going through hell, Keep going.-Winston Churchill

"Practice? How the hell can I make my teammates better in pratice?" - Allen Iverson

"There's an I in win." -Micheal Jordan

"One man's now is another man's then." -Anonymous

This quote made me laugh:
“The play was give the ball to Michael and everyone else get the fuck out of the way.” -Joel Achenbech

Do you mutter those to yourself during the 5 hours a day you spend on your association?

The Kaggwa one.

And Deepak Chopra can suck monkey nuts.

Lol yeah, don't really like the guy but that's a nice quote.

“The play was give the ball to Michael and everyone else get the fuck out of the way.” -Joel Achenbech

That one's great

"You can't rack these but I racked 'em from some pedophile in Nunawading"

"I could pack a billy to the ceiling and I would fuckin' punch it"

"I looked at my baby and I was like, aw he's a cone-head. The poor dude ya know. He's got like down sinners or somethin', like it's gonna be heartache"

"I bought my first ticket in like a year yesterday, cause I had so much shit man, I had so much shit to carry man and then I was devastated I bought a ticket anyway. I was shattered... coulda bought a can of Coke"

- Jisoe

"If you come quietly, we'll only resort to 'excessive' force instead of 'medieval'." - Max of Sam & Max

"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx

"I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention." - Hakeem Olajuwon

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
"Boards don't hit back."
-Bruce Lee

"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." - Groucho Marx

Awesome. I'll have to remember that one.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect. So why practice? -Ai ai delas alas

Trying is First Step To Failure-Homer J. Simpson

"We know what we have to do. I know I have to get up in the morning, put my underwear on first and then put my pants on first. I don't need people to tell me that." -Shaq

Do you mutter those to yourself during the 5 hours a day you spend on your association?

Seriously, we need to lay off. He's obviously done a great job of keeping this association so I think it's about time we cut the guy some slack, everyone (including myself) has been on his shit for months and he just keeps taking it.

Some of my favorites:

• Understand that second place just means you're the first loser.


• It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the do'er of deeds might have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

The bigger the boobs, the smaller the brains.

As if you're interested in her brains...

Jackal, yeah you could alter it to 'the smaller the brains, the looser the belt'.

"Just shut the fuck up and do it."

"History never recalls second place."

"Yeezy reupholstered my pussy"
"Luke, I am your father"
"Do it for the lulz"

I stand by these three quotes every single day, they are my guidelines to life.

"Really, sorry for all of this guys. That's just who I am, but as I said before, I don't have these lack of commitment in real life issues. It's the virtual basketball that kills me, lol." - Thierry

"The doctrine of regulation and legislation by "master minds" in whose judgment and will all the people may gladly and quietly acquiesce has been too glaringly apparent at Washington during these last ten years. Were it possible to find "master minds" so unselfish, so willing to decide unhesitatingly against their own personal interests or private prejudices, men almost god-like in their ability to hold the scales of Justice with an even hand, such a government might be to the interest of the country, but there are none such on our political horizon, and we cannot expect a complete reversal of all the teachings of history." - FDR, March 2, 1930. (Maybe my favorite quote ever since I found the speech until I find another. If you don't know why then I contend that you're the boring one.)

"Pessimists are not only the only realists; they have all the best jokes." - Theodore Dalrymple

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.” - H. L. Mencken
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken

"If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong." - Antonin Scalia

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” - Aristotle

"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those that divide everybody into groups, and those that overgeneralize." - Ben Pershing

"We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes." - Friedrich Hayek
"Who imagines that there exist any common ideals of distributive justice such as will make the Norwegian fisherman consent to forego the prospect of economic improvement in order to help his Portuguese fellow, or the Dutch worker to pay more for his bicycle to help the Coventry mechanic, or the French peasant to pay more taxes to assist the industrialization of Italy? If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this justly and equitably." - Friedrich Hayek

"Everything fails by irrevelant standards." - Thomas Sowell

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." - Thomas Sowell

“[Last Wednesday] I was with the vice president. I was asking him what [Halloween] costume he was planning. He said, ‘Well, I’m already wearing it.’ Then he mumbled something about the dark side of the Force.” - President George W. Bush


I'm quoting this one only because it was just on:
"You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."

And just because:
"Just because something has appeared in a newspaper does not mean that is entirely accurate." - Washington Post