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Remarkably inspiring quotes

Undesired Walrus

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I work at a Drug Misuse centre, with one of my tasks being the rotation of the daily quote every morning. Usually something inspiring about keeping with it.

Any suggestions of the most inspiring quotes you can think of? I'd appreciate stuff from people like Paine rather than Madonna.
 
I like this one from Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
 
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/inspirational-quotes-for-difficult-times.html

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/thread/4988

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending."
---Carl Bard

http://smiley963.tripod.com/inspirational.html
 
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt

CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC
"The Man In The Arena"
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910
 
"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory."

-Sir Francis Drake
 
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time." -- Sammy Davis Jr., from the lyrics to 'Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow', which was the opening theme song to the TV series 'Baretta'.
 
"The closest I've come to having sex with a black woman was when I masturbated to a picture of Aunt Jemima on a pancake box."
~~~Howard Stern~~~
 
quick look in a little notebook.....


For the biblical sorts, how about old Ecclesiastes: "It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools."

Or Walt Kelly: "It is probably all right to try to be anything you cannot be, when you find out that you cannot be everything that you are."

Or Flaubert: "Be regular and orderly in your life, like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Or Joyce Cary: "Pride is a good chest protector but a bad bicycle."

Herbert J. Muller: "to say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer."

Haitian proverb: "the fish trusts the water, and it is in the water that it is cooked."
 
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

Bruce Lee
 
"At least DO SOMETHING! DO! Don't think, don't hope, do! At least you can come off and say 'I did this, I shepherded, I played on. At least I did something!"

John Kennedy Snr to his Hawthorn players at Half Time in the 1975 VFL Grand Final.
 
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Hunter S. Thompson
 
Fácilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.

Translated:
It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air -
There's the rub, the task.

From Vergil's Aeneid, Book IV line 126

On a less serious note, I've always liked David Ortiz's "When life give you lemons, smash 'em with a bat."
 
Danton said:
Fácilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.
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Quidquid in lingua mortua dictum sit, cum mortis dictum est.
 
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