“Evil prospers when good men do nothing”-John Philpot Curran
[quote]Think tank fish wrote:
“be the change you wish to see in the world”
Words I try to live by.
Also already posted but churchill “if you’re going through hell, keep going” has helped me in my life a lot.[/quote]
I love this one its so classic tough Churchill, but also shows his brilliant sense of humor.
I mean really, hell would be a really dumb place to STOP right?
I always suspect COURAGE WOLF if affiliated with Churchill.
so many Churchill quotes work perfectly for COURAGE WOLF.
If you’re going through hell, take the first train otta there.
-Chirstine
" your morals are your morals, not mine. Who am i to judge you? and who are you to judge me?" - louie simmons
Oh I got some good ones. I have a whole word document of my favorite ones saved. Here are a few I like or find inspiring.
“the only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – may smith
“our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” – confucius
“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company” – Mark Twain
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
- Gerry Spence
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. " -Plato
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” -Socrates
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.” -Pandora
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” - Carl Jung
“where words fail, music speaks.” – hans christian andersen
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
[quote]Think tank fish wrote:
“be the change you wish to see in the world”
Words I try to live by.
Also already posted but churchill “if you’re going through hell, keep going” has helped me in my life a lot.[/quote]
I love this one its so classic tough Churchill, but also shows his brilliant sense of humor.
I mean really, hell would be a really dumb place to STOP right?
I always suspect COURAGE WOLF if affiliated with Churchill.
so many Churchill quotes work perfectly for COURAGE WOLF.[/quote]
Got to love churchill.
Imagine wartime britain with COURAGE WOLFS instead of the ‘keep calm and carry on’ posters.
“Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one, but some of them you wouldn’t come near and others you’d come inside of.”
-DB Cooper
“Classless in victory, belligerent in defeat.”
-DB Cooper
how about a real weightlifting quote?
"eva body wanna be a bodybuilda, but dont no body wanna lif no heavy ass weight! I DO IT THOOO’ (proceeds to squat like 650x3) - Ronnie Coleman
and those hemingway quotes are awesome
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lighty upon you and may prosperity forget htat you were our countrymen.
Samuel Adams
I have a bunch of favorites, but to keep it simple I’ll stick with a few that pertain to weightlifting:
Remember that guy who gave up?.. Neither does anyone else.
The only thing to doubt, is your limits.
“Fall down seven times, get up eight”- Japanese proverb.
“He who has a why to live, can bear almost any how”- Friedrich Nietzsche
" Anything is possible to him that will try"- Alexander the Great
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind–not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich.”-Seneca
Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don’t do no harm, but it don’t mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he’ll kill ya. It ain’t so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin’ back at you.- Little Bill Dagget from Unforgiven
In the immortal words of Socrates who said, “I drank what?”
What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? Therefore leave my works,
And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes;
For I lull nobody,
And you will never understand me.
-Walt Whitman
“If you hit that bulls eye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.”
Zapp Brannigan
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
-Ausonius
“Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.”
- Homer Bannon ‘Hud’ 1963
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of every One-Hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are nothing but targets, nine are real fighters…we are lucky to have them…they make the battle. Ah, but the One, one of them is a Warrior…
and He will bring the others back."
- Heraclitus (circa 500 BC)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
–Dwight D. Eisenhower
An amateur trains until he gets it right.
The professional trains until he cannot get it wrong.
“You must hurt to win!” We are all fit and strong, what makes the difference is your willingness to suffer!
Yasotay (Mongol Warlord), 1314
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
-Jesse Owens
[quote]Meat Romney wrote:
how about a real weightlifting quote?
"eva body wanna be a bodybuilda, but dont no body wanna lif no heavy ass weight! I DO IT THOOO’ (proceeds to squat like 650x3) - Ronnie Coleman
and those hemingway quotes are awesome[/quote]
Hemingway was a bad motherfucker.
WW1
African Safari hunts
Bare knuckle boxing
Bull fighting
Hardcore fishing…
Unfortunately it seems he ran out of juice by his own decision.
Real recognize real