From two of my heros:
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill
Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
“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 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 and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt
actually Billyboy its neither, its: “Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen”
“When a man goes on a date, he wonders if he is going to get lucky, a woman already knows.”
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex”
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
–Sir Winston Churchill "
Also, there was a great quote that I dont recall how exactly it went or who said it, if one of you recognizes it let me know, it goes kinda like this:
“When I was a child my mother told me to go to sleep, and when I asked her how, she said: “close your eyes, and when you get to the end of consciousness, take a right.” So I closed my eyes, but when I got to the end, I turned a left, my mother was there, and told me to go to sleep.”
“SQUAT TIL YOU PUKE!”
-From animal cuts ad
-my personal motto, I tell myself this before entering the gym…I think its so cool and motivational
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” - D.H. Lawrence
Sorry Fragile, you’re right.
And a correction on a revious one of mine.
“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.” Still unknown
The only impossible task is one you don’t try to accomplish.
“If you always put limits on yourself and the things you can do, physical or anything, you might as well be dead. It will spread into your work, your morality, your entire being. There are no limits, only plateaus. But then you must not stay there. You must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
Bruce Lee
dstrbd_one…Definitely a classic poem right there…worked into G.I.Jane quite well…
I have saved tons of quotes over the years, I’m sure I have posted most of them on t-mag at one time or another, but some recent ones I’ve come across…
“You know, I’ve been thinking…I cannot envision any circumstance in which I’ll ever have the opportunity to have sex again. How’s it gonna happen? I just don’t see how it could occur.” - George Costanza (From a really old seinfeld episode)
Stolen from a recent article…?If you take the leg extension machine, wrap a chain around it, and drag it around the parking lot, you?ll get a hell of a leg workout.? ? Unknown
These last two are quite long, but are from movies that I only just saw within the past few weeks…
?Well I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman?s back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there oughtta be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, open your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.? ? Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) in Bull Durham
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?Well, if you give me a couple minutes of your time, I got a few things I’d like to talk to ya about. You know, what you did wasn’t really your fault. It’s what you call a genetic defect. Mom called it the, the gene. My Grandfather had the gene. He came over from the boat from Ireland in 1912 and I guess he passed it on to my old man. My old man was a great guy, a real pussy cat, you know, hard worker, big sports fan. But sometimes on his way home from the docks he liked to stop in with the guys and have a couple of beers, ya know. I remember coming home from school one day and the whole house was dark. Couldn’t figure it out. I heard my Mom crying off in the dark someplace, and I was old enough at that point I could reach the light switch. I turned the lights on and I saw what he did to her. So I went to my room and I got the baseball bat. Mickey Mantel model my old man gave me for Christmas, and I found the old man passed out in the bathtub, and I tattooed him. Needless to say, when I came home everyday from school after that the house was lit up like Ebbet’s Field, and the old man, he never drank again. So all I’m saying to you is if you wanna drink, you go ahead and drink. But if I ever find out that you laid your hands on that little girl again, me and Mr. Mantle are gonna pay you a visit my friend.? ? Lono Veccio (Denis Leary), Suicide Kings
Enjoy…Sorry about the length, but good reading nonetheless…
BillyBoy-
Your anonymous quotation comes from an advertisement for a correspondence course penned by George W. Cecil. Great quote, but funny that it came from an ad.
‘I think I fucked a squirrel to death and I don’t even remember it…’ Bruce Willis (Last Boy Scout)
Not quite as serious as the ones above but I love this movie and that one liner makes me chuckle… alot…
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my
sufferings.
Dostoevski
Now is when I must prove it.
The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
Earnest Hemingway/Old Man and the Sea
The common man is content, but not happy. The great man is happy, but never content.
Me
Do we truly not believe that we can be great? Or do we avoid our greatness, because that makes us responsible to act? Great men must go forth and perform great deeds.
Me
One more I found posted on the duty hut in infantry school. It summed up life in 2 words: No Love
Speaking of movie lines…
“I’m going to rip your balls off so you can not contaminate the rest of the world”
Drill Instructor Hartman from Full Metal Jacket
“Learn from the mistakes of others - you don’t have time to make them all yourself.”
“It is easier to invent the future than to predict it.”
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
There was one thing I really liked about the movie Equilibrium, it was the scene where the hero met the bad guy
Bad guy: “Give yourself [and surrender] entirely without incident”
Good guy (through clenched teeth): “No, not without incident”
The good guy then proceeded to go postal and kill everybody. It’s a little motivational mantra I use to squeeze out an extra rep or two with 95% squats.
“Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.”- F. M. Hubbard
Chris, you mean the “plains of hesitation” quote? That sucks! I figured it was by someone cool like Churchill.
Billy
was looking at the first t-mag articles and found this in the second one, under reader mail
I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOU SAY BUT I WILL DEFEND TO YOUR DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT!!
i agree wholehartedly
brawler
“be the hammer”