quotes Inspirational Quotes

[Brayon]

"Books should be given away freely as gifts, never loaned." - Admiral William "Husker" Adama, Battlestar Galactica.

 

[ReaderPaul]

     “Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready.  The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'" ~ Johnny Carson 

[W_L]

Some people forget that Abraham Lincoln was actually pretty good at predicting the future:

 

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At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. - Abraham Lincoln, January 1838, Lyceum Address

 

 

 

The speech was inspirational as Americans still feared European and external encroachment at the time, by telling everyone that such an event would never happen, he inspired hope and courage in independence. On the other side, he also inspired fear as he clearly saw the divisions within the country that been born since the founding (a topic better left to the Pit), he inspires both courage in American independence and fear of American self-destruction.

 

 

I think Lincoln gave a timeless speech in 1838, not just to his issues in the 19th century, but to greater issues that can be applied even in 2017.

 

For those who may think the above quote as too cerebral, we can venture into Lincoln's poetry, which has a touch of light baby blue:
 

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For Reuben and Charles have married two girls,
But Billy has married a boy.
The girls he had tried on every side,
But none he could get to agree;
All was in vain, he went home again,
And since that he's married to Natty.

 

 

[TalonRider]

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncomman way."

Booker T. Washington

[sandrewn]

 

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean           

nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

~Roy T. Bennett                                                                                                             

 

sandrewn

(so little, can mean so much)

[TalonRider]

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

Chinese Proverb

[SolarMaxx]

On August 21, 2017 at 0:10 AM, sandrewn said:

Life isn't measured by

the number of

breaths you take, but

by the number of

moments that take

your breath away.

                                      ~Anonymous

 

sandrewn

This is GREAT! 

[SolarMaxx]

"People who shock too easily should be shocked more often!"

                                                                  -- May West

 

One of my personal favorites 

[Matthew Jacob]

This quote saved my life. This quote convinced a 15 year-old me not to self-harm.

I will forever be grateful for this quote.

[Matthew Jacob]

 Also I lover Cersei, and I think this is one of her best lines in the show.

[Matthew Jacob]

this is also an awesome one that I think more people should be aware of 

[sandrewn]

 

 

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet   of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

~Stephen Hawking

 

sandrewn

(everyone is entitled to their own opinion)

Edited September 2, 2017 by sandrewn
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[TalonRider]

"Just when you think you've graduate from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course."

Mary H. Waldrip

[Raphael Farmer]

Don't get hung up on the little things.

[sandrewn]

 

 

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it         

won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front

of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with     

your heart, you feel like you have known the person for              

forever....connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

~C. JoyBell C.                                                                                                                             

 

sandrewn

 

[TalonRider]

"The most flammable kind of wood is the chip on the shoulder." - E. Joseph Cossman

[W_L]

Every writer has a reason, an ideal on writing:

 

I draw inspiration from William Faulkner's famous Banquet speech on the pitfalls of modern writing that focusing far too often on the situation rather than the humanity:

 

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Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

 

-William Faulkner, Nobel Prize, 1950

 

[sandrewn]

 

 

"Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear,

and taking action in the face of fear."                 

~Roy T. Bennett                                                                                                   

 

sandrewn

[TalonRider]

"Goals are dreams with deadlines." -- Diana Scharf Hunt

[sandrewn]

 

 

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

~Ralph Waldo Emerson                                                                                                        

 

sandrewn

[TalonRider]

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Haim Ginott

[sandrewn]

 

Your mind is a garden.            

Your thoughts are like seeds.

You can grow flowers              

or you can grow weeds.           

                                                          ~unknown

 

sandrewn

[TalonRider]

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."

Brendan Francis

[sandrewn]

 

 

"How wonderful it is that nobody need

wait a single moment before starting

to improve the world"

                                                                              ~Anne Frank

 

sandrewn

[TalonRider]

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." - Abraham Lincoln