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

[DzynKingRTR]

Never try to teach a pig to sing, because it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

 

[Bazza]

"Rust and Darwin never sleep."

 

[Elefantman]

"Rust and Darwin never sleep."

I have to add one more to that list, entropy. I realize the bulk of my retirement time is spent battling entropy around the house and yard.

 

[crimsonaudio]

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.”
- Hub, 'Secondhand Lions'

 

[Bazza]

“People need to shut up….learn how to do something. Be actually good at something.”
- Denzel Washington

“WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF OPINIONAIRES.”
- Denzel Washington

 

[Bazza]

"Beaten paths are for beaten men."

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
------ Robert E. Lee

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
------ Robert E. Lee

I like W.C. Fields quote about water, but I cannot post it here.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Bazza]

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

William Wordsworth

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

 

[mdb-tpet]

Epictetus: "Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him"

 

[DzynKingRTR]

"to be loved, you have to be nice to people. Every day. To be hated you don't have to do squat." Homer Simpson

 

[Bazza]

“It is worth it to be old now to have been young then”.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Bazza]

 

[oskie]

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Reminds me I once heard a person say:

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a Jet Ski, and you never see an un-happy person on a Jet Ski.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

One I read recently. I think on TideFans:

Comparison is the thief of joy.