inspirational quotes

[J. A.]

"Just play some rap music"

Joe Hallenbeck after being told by his abducters that they wanted to see him cry

I do understand him.

 

[J. A.]

Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is. And joy is everywhere… Rabindranath Tagore

 

[scifan57]

"Just because you can doesn't mean you should." - Sherrilyn Kenyon

 

[Iriana]

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~George Eliot


The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.
~Hebrew Proverb

 

[Kaykaykay]

You have power over your mind -- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Marcus Aurelius

 

[Kaykaykay]

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh

 

[Ampress]

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Mark Twain

 

[zstairlessone]

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin Rommel

 

[zstairlessone]

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Isaac D'Israeli

 

[zstairlessone]

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Benjamin Disraeli

 

[Kaykaykay]

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

 

[zstairlessone]

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing

David Viscott

 

[zstairlessone]

I have succeeded in failure, because in failure trying is implied

Me in a morose moment

 

[Kaykaykay]

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Arthur Ashe

 

[KevinJS]

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin Rommel

I like this one. Winning is good, but just taking something to deprive someone else is quite distasteful. There are good reasons why Rommel was respected even by his enemies.