Harry Lime: Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
-the third man
It’s not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential! - Bruce Lee
The virtues of the common man are like the grass. The virtues of the strong man are like the wind. The grass when the wind passes over it, bends. - Thoreau
Warren Zevon, in an interview after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“Enjoy every sandwich.”
I really like that one. Because I really like Warren Zevon, and I really like sandwiches.
I like this one, because it is always true, and one of those things we all know, but try not to know:
“The easy way is the hard way. The hard way is the easy way.”
Or, as we used to say in the Nav:
“You can take the time to do it right, or you can take the time to do it over.”
Another:
“Man is the only animal that can reason. Women, on the other hand, are a species of talking bird.”
Here are some good ones:
“No man is free until he is master of himself” Epictetus
“Every hour mispent is lost forever” George Washington
The ancient Greeks reduced character to the sum of four virtues. Fortitude: strength of mind along with the physical and moral courage to persevere in the face of adversity.
Temperance: self-discipline to control passions and appetites. Prudence: practical wisdom and the ability to make the right choice in specific situations. And Justice: fairness, honesty, lawfulness, keeping promises. To conduct oneself, especially in times of crisis, with integrity, was the fundamental litmus test of a person’s character. Epictetus had written, “it is difficulties that show what men are.”
You can define the moment, or let the moment define you - me
If you want to make revolutionary progress, you have to follow a revolutionary plan - me
“Therefore, I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins…And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. Who of you reproves Me concerning sin? But if I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? The one who is of God hears the Words of God; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God…Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham came to be, I AM!”
-Jesus Christ (aka the Almighty God)
“I drank what?”
-Socrates
The lyrics of Metallica’s “Don’t Tread on Me” are incisive in this day and time.
"Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
Never begins it, never, but once engaged…
Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage
Dont tread on me
So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that youll hear evermore…
Dont tread on me
Love it or live it, she with the deadly bite
Quick is the blue tongue, forked as lighting strike
Shining with brightness, always on surveillance
The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance
Dont tread on me"
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism.
This link is full of inspiration and grea quotes.
‘An idea is a dangerous thing. Especially if it’s your only one.’- Freddie Foxxx
“Nothing tastes as good as fit feels”
Now I’m not saying that I’ve been everywhere and I’ve done everything, but I do know it’s a pretty amazing planet we live on, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we’re alone in THIS universe.
Just remember what ol’ Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, “Give me your best shot. I can take it.”
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol’ Jack Burton always says at a time like that: “Have ya paid your dues, Jack?” “Yessir, the check is in the mail.”
all quotes by
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Jack Burton
Big Trouble in little China
A Classic
“If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” - Joshua
“To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world” -Bruce Lee
“You must die! I alone am best” -the Ghost Face Killer in 36 Deadly Styles
God will crucify without pity those He desires to raise without measure – A.W. Tozer
“…she’s realy nice, by that I mean: if you can find it kinda fat.” -me
Hey thanks pusharder! I have many quotes that I like; I’d be hard-pressed to call any one my favorite.
“Be nice to people on your way up. You might meet 'em on your way down.”
Jimmy Durante
Another Gandhi-“Be the cange you wish to see in the world.”
“It is often easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
Adlai Stevenson
My all time favorite. (I used to fight mma and now do judo.)
Blessed be the Lord, my Strength. He trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. – Psalms 144:1
man’s problem is not that he desires too much, but that he desires too little. – C.S. Lewis