Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Kirk Gillock

Kirk Gillock

Rebel with a cause
Got any quotes that you live by or that you often say to inspire others or so you can look smart?

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -Mahtma Gandhi



"Bad things happen when good people do nothing." -Unknown



"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." -Ralph Waldo Emerson



"You see buzzards, I see eagles." -My Mom (When she thought she saw eagles circling our TEXAS home. We put her in a home soon after that. :))
 
Life is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. - E.L. Doctorow

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is. - Mary Poole
 
This was, believe it or not, on an old Nike t-shirt I used to have, but I loved it, and I think it applies to more than just sports.

Eat right,
get plently of sleep,
drink lots of fluids,
and
go like hell.
 
Not sure if this is acceptable (More a speech tham Quote) but I love this one:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat
 
"You'll have plenny of time for rollin' doobies... when you're... livin' in a VAN down by the RIVERRR!!!"

-Matt Foley
 
When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
-- Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry, 1971)


Drama is life with the dull bits left out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock


A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
-- Orson Welles

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
-- Clint Eastwood


The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock


It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two points of their IQ.
-- Truman Capote


Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
--Billy Wilder

 
if you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

I think the biggest mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

both by sir Kubrick.
 
For Questionman17 should he stumble upon this thread...

For Questionman17 should he stumble upon this thread...

"A liar should have a good memory"
-- Quinctilian
 
Life is too short to be little.
-Benjamin Disraeli.

If you want things to change, change things.
-David G. Smith.

and of course the ones in my signature.
 
Those were some good ones. :)

Speaking of bumper stickers. The greatest one has got to be, "My kid beat up your honor student." Good stuff.
 
"Procrastination is like masturbation. It feels good at first but in the end your just ****ing yourself."

"Procrastinate today. Don't put it off."
 
"They say success leads to happiness, when really it is happiness that leads to success."

I dont know who said it. Could just be the Tao of Taggers since I saw it on a bathroom wall. :)
 
That's a great one, Terri. I'm going to use that one today. And since you said it everyone will now know it as the thartley quote. :)


P.S. What are you doing up so late? Turn off that computer and go straight to bed! You have work in the mornng.
 
PK Gillock said:
P.S. What are you doing up so late? Turn off that computer and go straight to bed! You have work in the mornng.
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I know, my daughter just got home from work and reminded me that I have to get up in four hours for work. :(
 
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