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A Meaningful Quote To You Thread
March 27, 2017, 04:46 PM
VanwallA Meaningful Quote To You Thread
History is written by the victors. - Winston Churchill
March 28, 2017, 11:45 PM
bossmanNothing good happens after midnight. Iowa State University coach Johnny Orr.
March 29, 2017, 12:17 AM
sjtill"You will not rise to the occasion. You will default to your level of training." -- unknown SF member's old signature line.
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity." --Thomas Carlyle
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“ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne
March 29, 2017, 01:16 AM
KevinCWquote:
Originally posted by chongosuerte:
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Originally posted by adobesig:
Theodore Roosevelt-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.
I think of this one every day I'm at work.
Before I changed it a few years back, this one was my signature quote.
Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." March 29, 2017, 04:25 AM
LBAR15Thanks to Para years back, mine is my CUT.
To me it just means that even though we may try to hold on to the past or go back to another time in our lives, we truly can't. Life is about creating new memories, living in the present and always moving forward.
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“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve." - Lao Tzu
March 29, 2017, 01:48 PM
ChicagoSigManTo be early is to be on time;
to be on time is to be late;
to be late is to be screwed.
March 29, 2017, 01:51 PM
SIGnifiedGrowth for growth's sake is the paradigm of the cancer cell.
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein March 29, 2017, 01:57 PM
GustoferWhen someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Maya Angelou
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"Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
March 29, 2017, 02:08 PM
RebelDMD"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." - Vince Lombardi
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. ~Brian O’ Driscoll
March 29, 2017, 02:28 PM
Brett B“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
-Albert Einstein
March 29, 2017, 03:40 PM
stkfox"Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance."
-- ubiquitous in the military, and I practice it nearly every day.
March 29, 2017, 03:54 PM
cas"
Fair's a place they give ribbons to pigs." - by I forgot who
March 29, 2017, 04:49 PM
M'headSigHappiness = Reality - Expectations
Tom Magliozzi, one the "Car Talk" brothers, who passed away a couple of years ago due to Alzheimer's disease.
March 29, 2017, 06:50 PM
gasche"Partnership in not a ship to get on."
-Grandpa-
March 29, 2017, 08:26 PM
jack32586Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win
Sun Tzu
March 29, 2017, 08:36 PM
Patrick-SP2022quote:
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
I came across this today.
March 29, 2017, 08:36 PM
BamaJeepsterThru high school I had a desk in my bedroom that had a blotter on it. The newspaper would run a quote of the day and I would cut out the ones I liked and tape them to my blotter.
My signature line is one my favorites, and another I liked and had taped to my desk was from Eleanor Roosevelt:
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Do what you know in your heart to be right, for you will be criticized anyway.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
- John Adams March 29, 2017, 09:01 PM
nighthawkIf you can keep your head when everyone else is losing theirs, you obviously don't understand the problem.
"Hold my beer.....Watch this".
March 29, 2017, 09:05 PM
ScreamingCockatooI struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
March 29, 2017, 09:13 PM
Shotgun Zeke“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” Nelson Henderson
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures.
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