BillyBoy-
Unfortunately, yes. It comes from a 1928 ad for International Correspondence Schools written by George W. Cecil. It looks like Adlai Stevenson picked it up in the '60s and popularized it. It’s an awesome quote regardless, though.
Not A quote but still motivational…the inches speech from any given sunday
Don’t recall where I heard it but it’s pretty good.
“Would the boy you were,be proud of the man you are?”
Brawler357 that is a quote from Voltaire, a pre-revolutionary French philosopher.
My personal favourite:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit.”
-Aristotle
Great thread. Here’s some random quotes:
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” -Robert H. Goddard
“I’ve had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven’t run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can’t outwork you, then smarts aren’t going to do them much good. That’s just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you’d be surprised at how much fun you can have.” -Woody Hayes
“One ought to every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“There is nothing more frightful than a bustling ignorance.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” -Thomas Jefferson
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” -Euripides
“In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.”
-Adlai Stevenson
“Chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” -Thomas Carlyle
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers
“To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.” -Plutarch
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” -John Wooden
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” -Tom Clancy
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
Franz Kafka
“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.”
Blaise Pascal
“Cry Havoc and Loose the Dogs of War”
“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.” – Will Rogers
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams
?It?s not what you look at that matters, it?s what you see.? ? Henry David Thoreau
?So, for the second time, [the Pharisees] summoned the man who had been blind and said: ?Speak the truth before God. We know this fellow is a sinner.? ?Whether or not he is a sinner, I do not know,? the man replied. ?All I know is this: once I was blind and now I can see.?? ? John 9:24-26
?Well, you know what my dad always said; having dreams is what makes life tolerable.? ? From the classic movie, Rudy
Couple of good ones from Winston Churchill, a veritable quote machine!
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter
–Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
–Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.” – Bertrand Russell
“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”–Michael Jordan
“I did not have sexual relations with that women!”–Bill Clinton
“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” – Henry Van Dyke
“Who Dares,Wins”
British SAS
(** I know this is a little misqouted - but I think it’s close enough)
Oscar Wilde in Letter to George Bernard Shaw:
“I enclose to tickets for the opening night of my new play - bring a friend … if you have one.” OW
George Bernard Shaw in reply to Oscar Wilde :
"Thank you kindly, I cannot make the opening night - could you send two tickets for the second show … if there is one. " GBS
if my baby dont love me no more, i know her sister will
- Jimi Hendrix
“we’re all in this together, but we all die alone”
- Unknown
doc: “you have every disease known to man, infact we found several new diseases in you”
Mr burns: “Tuberculosis?”
Doc: “Yes”
Mr Burns: “Hysterical Pregnacy?”
Doc: looks at chart “Uhh, a little bit, yes”
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
The Conan quote, while good in its own right, is actually ripped off from Genghis Khan. Can`t remember the full quote from Genghis but it was better.
“A man who has not found something he is willing to die for does not deserve to live.”
Martin Luther King.
From the movie,13th Warrior.
A Banderas:“I’m not a warrior”
Viking:“After tonite,you will be”