"Baseball wrong. Man with 4 balls no walk." - Confucious

"For what purpose humanity is here should not even concern us: why YOU are there, THAT you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible"

Nietzsche

"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"

The old man

Hi guys,

here is my list.

'Success - going from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm' - Sir Winston Churchill.

"You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'"
-- Earl Nightingale

'An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.'
M.K. Gandhi

'Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.'
Dr. Napoleon Hill

'Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.'
Zig Ziglar

'Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'
Mark Twain

'Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.'
Samuel Johnson

'I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.'
Blaise Pascal

I hope these help.

regards,

geoff.
http://www.tvmagicians.com

These are by a Canadian musician called Bruce Cockburn I think he writes some of the most beautiful lyrics in the world. but for this topic I reaccon

"Sometimes the best maps will not guide you, you cant see whats round the bend somtimes the road leads to dark places, somtimes the darkness is your friend"

"When you know even for a moment that its your turn you can walk with the power or a generations"

Wow gfdiamond!

Thanks for that!

And thanks everyone!

One more...

"Life is travelled only once,today's moment becomes tomorrow's memory. Enjoy every moment, good or bad because the gift of life is life itself."

- A Wise Person -

Teddy Rooselvelt. TR. Last decent Republican. Good quote.

"You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have built are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.

Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered."

-Kahlil Gibran, The Forerunner

Thanks for your contributions everyone!



Another one...

"Do you want to look back 50 years from now and wondered if you should have gotten into that car?"

- Shia LaBeouf to Megan Fox in "Transformers" -

"Because life is a gift, all of us are gifted."

- Noah BenShea -

“Dream no small dream, it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.”

~Donald Wills Douglas~

'If you have a quality, be proud of it, no matter what it is' Doug Bradley (AKA 'Pinhead')

"While the media would remind you at every juncture of what you have lost, I challenge you to focus on what you have."

-Anna Unkovich, Education Director, Pay It Forward Foundation-

Words, words, words....

Sometimes things work out. Sometimes they don't.

My mom had a pretty miserable life. 40 years married to a jerk. When my father passed in 2002, I thought, well, now maybe she can enjoy life. Come to find out she was in early stage Alzheimer's. Started having vile hallucinations, too. Now It has progressed to the point where she is in an absolute living hell. I'm really not exaggerating, though I surely wish I was. My one wish for her was that, after her husband passed, that however many remaining years she had left, they would be good for her.

Words can be great, but they cannot always overcome life.

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary
Vidal Sassoon

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there,
you must first see inside of you.
Wally Amos

"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." Michelangelo

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
Roethke

And perfect for this thread:

"Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired."
Richard Kemph


Greg

Always...no, never...no, always...always carry a litter bag in your car. If it gets full, you can throw it out the window.
- The quote by Steve Martin's guru that he claims he will never forget

Sorry to hear that Chessman.

At least your Mom's life was a success in one way.

She had you. Someone who loves her so much.

At the end, life is just a collection of memories. Mine and yours are totally different. Words are the only way to pass it on, the experience and the knowledge.

Just wanting to learn and be inspired by the knowledge that successful people have passed on here...

"Life is travelled only once,today's moment becomes tomorrow's memory. Enjoy every moment, good or bad because the gift of life is life itself."

"While life is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it..."

Here's one I live to now, after suffering from severe depression...

Everything in life is fixable, whether that be eduacation, friends, families or jobs. It is also never to late to fix these things.

At 33, in 2nd year of university and perfoming magic again shows that this can be done.

As someone else posted, If you commit suicide, the jerks win.

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan