Quotable quotes - Post your favorite

[goodal]

This will be my last post before testing and I thought I would give all of us some parting encouragment with some of my favorite quotes:

To conquer yourself is, of all victories, the first and the greatest.

-Plato

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

-Anonymous

"If you really want to do something, you will find a way, if you really don't want to, you will find an excuse."

Do or do not, there is no try.

-Yoda-Empire Strikes Back 1980

Nothing is more rewarding than to watch as someone who says it can't be done, gets interrupted by someone who just did.

-Arvid D. Yermes

If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly.

- Nick Lappos, Chief R&D Pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

-John Wooden

"You're going to eat lightining and you're going to crap thunder. You are going to become a very dangerous person."

-Mickey-Rocky I

 

[bph]

Ok, here are a few more.

“Ignorance begets confidence more often than knowledge.” ~ Charles Darwin

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know." ~ Cicero

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.” ~ Richard Bach

“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” ~ Richard Bach

Remember, we are going to do as the Fonz would, and what would the Fonz do? Correctamundo, that's right, we are going to stay cool.

BPH

 

[Supe]

"I'm only in the engineering field because I wanted something easier to understand than women." - Supe

 

[GulfCoastCivil]

I believe that inherent within the God-given right to the pursuit of happiness, is the equally God-given right to the pursuit of unhappiness. That is why I support gay marriage.

~Chuck Lorre~

 

[jillnova]

No pressure, no diamonds. - Thomas Carlyle

The beginning is the most important part of the work. - Plato

Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.) - Seneca

Change is good, but dollars are better. - anon

To Be is To Do - Kant

To Do is To Be - Descartes

Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.-Anonymous

I'm sure somebody said it before him, but Stewie Griffin said this on a Family Guy episode when he was running a Cash Scam business.