One person is better than another only if they excel one another in piety and good deeds.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
Someone I know online:
“It does not matter what I would do, or your mother would do, or the principal would do, or Chuck Norris would do – the question is what would you do, if you were thinking clearly, and were not afraid.”
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
?Michaelangelo
“If I’m going to be a bear, I’m going to be a grizzly.”
My dad.
“A belly button is for salt when you eat celery in bed.”
“A friend is a person who knows you and still likes you.”
I have but standing order keep shooting back till CNN tells us its over.
If you are going to be an asshole be an asshole if you are going to be one of the guys then be one of the guys BUT BE A LEADER.
[quote]pookie wrote:
“A belly button is for salt when you eat celery in bed.”[/quote]
That’s sexy in a cute sort of way!
“This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
“Cancer is my secret because none of my rivals has been that close to death and it makes you look at the world in a different light and that is a huge advantage.”
“Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things–whether health or a car or an old sense of self–has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.”
“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days or great days.”
"On training for the TdF: “I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find…I rode when no one else would ride, not even my teammates”
“If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you’ve got to go all the way.”
“The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father.”
—All by LANCE ARMSTRONG
I hope I didn’t already post these. I’m glad this very positive thread is still going strong! Love to everyone!
"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. "
Albert Pike
[quote]Agent Frost wrote:
“Excellence is reserved for those who, even when they fail, do so by doing greatly, so that their place shall never be among those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat”
attributed to the Marvel comic book assassin Elektra[/quote]
one of my favorite quotes but its actually by T. roosevelt the only thing marvel did looking at it is eliminate a good portion of the original add two or so words to the ending. The original is on my page…
“There is no virtue like necessity”
-Shakespeare
“Now’s a good time for you to start running in a serpentine fashion, boy.”
-My Dad
If the enemy is in range so are you.
Tracers work both ways.
If progress is going to easy, it’s probably an ambush.
- Old military axioms.
[quote]PGA wrote:
From The Hustler
Fast Eddie: “Didn’t leave you much.”
Minnesota Fats: “You left enough.”
Minnesota Fats: “Fast Eddie, let’s play some pool.”[/quote]
Fast Eddie: How should I play that one, Bert? Play it safe? That’s the way you always told me to play it: safe… play the percentage. Well, here we go: fast and loose. One ball, corner pocket. Yeah, percentage players die broke, too, don’t they, Bert?
Young man very expectantly puts a question to an old man.
Q: What’s been your greatest achievement over the course of your very long and successful life?
Old man answers: My next one…
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity - Einstein.
[quote]chinadoll wrote:
“This is my body. And I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it. Study it. Tweak it. Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
[/quote]
Awesome, thanks China
“When you glorify the past the future dries up.”
Bono
Regret for what we have done can be tempered with time. It is regret for what we did NOT do that is inconsolable. Sidney J. Harris
“Invention is the mother of necessity.”
The Hangdogs, from the song “Shit that we Don’t Need.”
"Heres another unfortunate pack of low grade morons that need to be pencilled in for a sudden visit from the angel of death.
These people with buper-stickers that say something like, “We are the proud parents of an honor student at the Franklin School.”
Or Midvaile Accadamy, or what ever other innocent sounding name has been assigned to the indoctination center where their child is being sent to be stripped of his individuallity and turned into obedient soul-dead conformist member of the American consumer culture."
–George Carlin