Quotes / stories that inspire you or motivate you to be better

[Bazza]

I generally avoid watching television outside of CFB, this resonates with me:

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Watched "The Book of Eli" TWICE over the weekend (It's was on cable Sundance). Oldman was great, as always. What a movie though!

Gladiator was also on. Lot of great lines in that movie, such as....."The time for half-measures and talk is over!"

 

[crimsonaudio]

Book of Eli is one of my all-time favs.

 

[Ole Man Dan]

I run across quotes from time to time that keep me focused on being better in various aspects of my life - for whatever reason, great quotes just resonate with me and help me to remain focused on what's important. Figured it would be fun if we had a thread where we could share them.

I'll start - I've loved this one for many years as it's true on so many levels.

“Would it not be more tranquil and serene to be a gardener and tend the plants?” the student asked.

“Tending the garden,” the master replied, “is a relaxing pastime, but it does not prepare one for the inevitable battles of life. It is easy to be calm in a serene setting. To be calm and serene when under attack is much more difficult; therefore, I tell you that it is far better to be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war.”

My quote is different than most, but I have lived and managed by it.
(Especially in Police Work)

Mike Tyson...
'Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth'.

Right after hearing that One Liner it struck me that I needed to have a Plan B or C. Everything doesn't always go the way we plan.
In emergencies having a plan B can be difference in winning and losing.

(I never thought of Iron Mike as being a philosopher before)

 

[alabama mike1]

“Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”

Morrie Schwartz

From the book, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -----

WILL ROGERS

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[alabama mike1]

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

William Shakespeare

 

[crimsonaudio]

"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
- Kurt Vonnegut

 

[alabama mike1]

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[B1GTide]

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I often tell my boys, give 100% of that which you have to give each day. What that 100% will change from day to day, but the desire to give your all should not.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

 

[whatsamatta U]

Something my parents used to tell us kids before we would leave the house, and it has passed from my kids to the their kids...

"Don't let others be a negative influence on you, be a positive influence on them."

Tried to live by that all my life, but it not always easy.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

The past is always a rebuke to the present —

Robert Penn Warren

 

[jds22]

I have been adding motivational quotes in my phone as I find ones that resonate. I don’t always have the source but for the last two I do.

“Excellence has a price. It isn’t free. You have to pay for it up front.” - Coach Saban

“Success isn’t owned. It’s leased and rent is due every single day.” - JJ Watt

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

― Jim Rohn

 

[crimsonaudio]

This could also go in the 'obesity' thread.

 

[Bazza]

Hold dear that which is so to you & cast the rest into the bottomless pit, where it belongs.

Dwell not in sadness or walk with fools, they will ultimately consume all that is good within you.

Be thankful for what you have & not envious of what others "appear to have", for all may not be as it seems on the other side of the fence.

Give to those who deserve, take not from those who give begrudgingly.

Smile, dance & most of all LOVE.

 

[CrimsonTheory]

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

Saw this on tik tok from a lady trying to encourage her gym buddy to keep working.

 

[alabama mike1]

"Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

Morrie Schwartz