Favorite Quotes

coffee is for closers.

 

I think William James said this, or something like this.

 

I love that quote from "The Rock."

This is part of an Adam Lindsay Gordon poem which I found meaningful:

"Question not, but live and labour
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbour,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
KINDNESS in another's trouble,
COURAGE in your own."

 

Thanks! got to try to find it out.

 

"What you do today can improve all of your tomorrows"

Ralph Marston

Great advice for both serial procrastinators and serious golfers alike.

"Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good."

Ben Hogan

 

"Impossible is Nothing"
-Adidas

 

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." Mark Twain

 

"Surely you can't be serious."

"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley"


Get the flunk out of here."

 

"Never make someone a priority who only makes you an option" -saw it on someone's myspace.

 

Endurance is when everyone has gone home and you are in competition with yourself. - Jay Cochrane, a tightrope walker I saw on Road Rules/ Extreme Challenge.

Alas! Victor, when falsehood can so look like the truth who can assure themselves of certain happiness? - From Frankenstein.

I am an invisible man. - Ralph Ellison

There'll be a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me - Rhinestone Cowboy.

 

"What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you love. That's what matters. That's the only thing that counts."

from The Last Kiss

that quote alone got me through my breakup last year

 

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

Sun Tzu

 

"I'm 60 years old. That's 16 Celsius." -- George Carlin

www.QuoteGarden.com is a fun place to find things like you have all posted.

 

I love this quote.

 

"You don't need a million bucks to do nothing, man!" Lawrence from the movie "Office Space". Lawrence is Peter's neighbor.

and

"Don't ever under-estimate the heart of a champion!" Rudy T.

 

Life is 10% how you make it, and 90% how you take it
-don't know who

 

"So at what point does CPR become necrophilia?" -- Kevin Nealon, "Weeds"

 

It takes 5.

 

"And remember, Red, hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things and like all good things, it will never die." (don't know if that is the exact quote but it is close enough).