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Favorite Motivational Quotes.

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Serious one: Success is 10% inspiration and 90% persperation - Not sure who said it, though.

Not so serious one: When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
 
3 great quotes from the Daily Guru...

"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it."

-- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, 'The real teacher is within you.' Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart."

-- Sara Paddison

"Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome."

-- Deepak Chopra
 
Originally posted by: CPA
Serious one: Success is 10% inspiration and 90% persperation - Not sure who said it, though.

not sure on that one but thomas edison said, "Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"
 
Originally posted by: Gl4di4tor
? Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.- Sloan Wilson

I have been collecting quotes for years and that is one of the dumbest ones I've read. No offense to you.
 
Originally posted by: akubi
Originally posted by: CPA
Serious one: Success is 10% inspiration and 90% persperation - Not sure who said it, though.

not sure on that one but thomas edison said, "Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"

you are probably more correct than mine.
 
How much is enough? It?s not a question of enough, pal. It?s a zero sum game, somebody wins, and somebody loses. Money itself isn?t lost or made; it?s simply transferred from one perception to another.

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
 
*There are no stupid questions, just a lot of inquistive idiots...
*It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down at the bottom
...Just a few of my favorite de..I mean, motivators...😀
 
Not necessarily what you're looking for, but here's some quotes I like:

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Give a man some fire, and he's warm for the evening. SET a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life...
If you're not part of the solution, then you're part of the precipitate.
If you don't know where you're going, you're never lost.
Sometimes, you just have to stare down the barrel of progress and hope there?s not one sitting in the chamber.
That road might be the one less traveled for a reason...
Unethical behavior is something you can do for personal gain that would be disasterous if everybody did it.
A man may make many mistakes but he isnt a failure until he blames someone else.
A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
 
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end
they always fall. Think of it... always."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"First they arrested the Communists -- but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists -- and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me -- and there was no one left to do anything about it."
- Rev Martin Niemoller (Nazi Prison Survivor)

?Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me Liberty or give me Death!?
Patrick Henry
 
Originally posted by: cchen
How much is enough? It?s not a question of enough, pal. It?s a zero sum game, somebody wins, and somebody loses. Money itself isn?t lost or made; it?s simply transferred from one perception to another.

There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

American Psycho!
 
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your face.

Reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
It's lonely at the top, but it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.



Damn ... If I had only seen this thread 4 minutes earlier ...
The exact same quote was in my mind ....
 
"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"

As simple as it may sound, at times this one helps me to speak up for my own self.
 
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