Quotes or Sayings to Live By.......

[Merlin1958]

Some of you may have enduring quotes or sayings that offer you inspiration or guidance in the things you do. Share them here. For me it's:


"A man never stands so tall, as when he stoops to help a child"

Abraham Lincoln


It was plastered on a large billboard, next to a cemetary no less and I would see it regularly as a kid and it kinds stuck. Plus I suppose the fact that I am 6'9" tall always bore some significance, but I love kids and ended up later earning the nickname "Deer Park Dad" after I was married and had kids of my own for always offering help, support and a family enviroment to all the neighborhood kids, generally with single parents!!! I've also been dubbed a "12 yr old with credit cards" LOL

What's yours????

[fernandito]

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata

"I can sum up everything I've learned of life in three words : It goes on."
-Robert Frost

[LadyHitchhiker]

"Never deprive anyone of hope; it may be all they have." -- anonymous

[Merlin1958]

"Never deprive anyone of hope; it may be all they have." -- anonymous

I really like that one!!!

[Merlin1958]

"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata

I can get with that one!!!

[Leah]

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

[Jean]

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen

Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra.
French proverb

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart
Marilyn vos Savant

Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connaît point.
Blaise Pascal

It's not easy to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.
Twelve Angry Men

[blavigne]

I like the one in my signature
Head Clear. Mouth Shut. See Much. Say Little.

Good advice for most situations.

[Sam]

Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. - unknown

"I have miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" - Emily Dickinson

These are all so very true, and we rarely realize it until it is too late to do us any good. So I give this one last quote. Hear it and live it.

Today is the only guarantee that you have before you, and even that is questionable.

[candy]

I like the one in my signature
Head Clear. Mouth Shut. See Much. Say Little.

Good advice for most situations.

I was just coming in to say that i like the one in your sig

My own personal favourite that i live everyday by

do unto others as you would have done to you

[Merlin1958]

I like the one in my signature
Head Clear. Mouth Shut. See Much. Say Little.

Good advice for most situations.

I was just coming in to say that i like the one in your sig

My own personal favourite that i live everyday by

do unto others as you would have done to you

An extremely sage response. Sometimes simple is well........simple


In my days on Wall Street the version I lived by was:

Do unto others, before they do unto you!!!

LOL

[RainInSpain]

Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra.
French proverb

This is a very good one - I like the Russian version of it, too (tbh, I abandoned my French studies 20 years ago, so had to google for translation)

My favorites are simple:

"Just be brave and always get back on your horse" ("Alice in Wonderland")

"This too shall pass" (often ascribed to Solomon)

"Sometimes 'tis best to swing on the rope, even if it's too dark to see if the hay's there or not." (Margaret Eisenhart, in Wolves of the Calla)

[Odetta]

Do or do not, there is no try - Yoda

[Merlin1958]

"Ask not, what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country"

JFK


Seems quite apropos in these times

[Yaksha]

"Seize the moment, cause tomorrow you might be dead"

"The wind blows northerly I go north" Malcolm Reynolds

" One day I will die and see whats on the other side of all this, but not yet." I said that one

[LadyHitchhiker]

"For what can it profit a man if he cannot chew gum and walk at the same time?" -- me

[LadyHitchhiker]

"Never deprive anyone of hope; it may be all they have." -- anonymous

I really like that one!!!

It's my favorite quote ever.

I always like Teddy Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

[blavigne]

I always like Teddy Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

I like that one too.........very good

[agrabin]

Never eat yellow snow

[blavigne]

Never eat yellow snow

OK, I like this one too......and it's also very good advice, thank you

[agrabin]

I don't know where this is from but I like it very much...

...there's no such thing as gravity, the Earth just sucks

[blavigne]

I don't know where this is from but I like it very much...

...there's no such thing as gravity, the Earth just sucks

This is the best one yet..............Great sense of humor agrabin!

[blavigne]

I don't know where this is from but I like it very much...

...there's no such thing as gravity, the Earth just sucks

This is the best one yet..............Great sense of humor agrabin!

[agrabin]

Thanks...

...sometimes I think we take ourselves all a bit too seriously

[Dagavidiab]

I'm having difficulties translating this: "Respeta a las personas, pero discute las ideas. De otra forma, solo eres un imbecil mas que defiende sus "creencias" a punta de patadas" - Me
I just said it hours ago