Motivational Quotes

[Robmeister]

How'bout sharing your favorite motivational quotes with the rest of us.  It doesn't necessarily have to be attributed to anyone.

One of my favorites is the Winston Churchill quote below.

Wpruitt shared one with me by email this morning that really got me charged up....and may be my new favorite.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

AR3 has a good one as part of his profile - "Every man dies, not every man really lives."  Braveheart, 1995

Here's one on Paul's - "I'd rather die while I'm living, than live while I'm dead"    Jimmy Buffet.

Don't know about the rest of you...but I love that stuff.

[BaldRob]

Here's one of my favorites:

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

[Robmeister]

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

Yeah...that's pretty bottom line.

Let's see...either "Tommy Boy" or "Animal House"....I'm leaning toward the latter.

[Robmeister]

Here's another good one:

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." - Stewart B. Johnson

[schro]

A personal favorite of mine comes from Norm of "Cheers":

"It's a dog eat dog world out there, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear".

[ar3inc]

Teddy Roosevelt, in addition to many other great quotes, said one of my favorites in a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris.  It's a bit long.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them 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 short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

"Citizenship in a Republic," 23 April 1910

[Tyler]

Here's one from Mark Twain that I enjoy:

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

[ar3inc]

Twainis another person who has many great quotes!  Good choice, Tyler!

[Robmeister]

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

That is a good one....our pastor pulled that one out last week!!

AR3....that one of 1910 is awesome

[Tyler]

Here's one of my favorites:

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life"

There's always this Animal House quote:

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

[ar3inc]

AR3....that one of 1910 is awesome

We have that in the team room with a pic of Roman I think Roman warrior, but its fairly small, no one knows were it came from.  hell it might from 1910  I been want to find good pic, put the text on it, send it to a print lab and sell those puppys.

[ar3inc]

It’s almost completely opposite of motivational, but I always loved, “Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard.  At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.  Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”  Billy Madison 1995

[wpruitt]

There's always this Animal House quote:

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
[/quote]

Now we know why the kids in HS are bombing on the Social Studies tests

[bmwgsa]

I rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
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When we drink, we get drunk
When we get drunk, we fall asleep
When we sleep, we  commit no sin
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven
So,let's get drunk and go to heaven
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Procrastinate now, don't put it off.
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Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.

[ar3inc]

Some good lines there, bmwgsa