Inspirational Quotes?

[Jbenert]

So I was reading my favorite inspirational quote today and was wondering what some other good ones are!

Mine is:

Life is the ultimate teacher,
but it is usually through experience
and not scientific research
that we discover its deepest lessons.
A certain percentage of those
who have survived near death experiences
speak of a common insight
which afforded a glimpse of life's basic lesson plan.
We are all here for a single purpose:
to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.
We can do this through losing as well as through winning,
by having and by not having,
by succeeding or by failing.
All we need to do is to show up openhearted for class.

-Rachel Naomi Ramen, M.D.
Kitchen Table Wisdom


What's yours?

[gamerpeeps]

Life is not about how you survive the storm but how you dance in the rain.   by me. 

[falcon9]

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile away from them, and you'll have their shoes." -Jack Handey

[gaylasue]

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss

[BizELady]

"Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others."
-- Stephen R. Covey

[oldbuddy]

"Money isn't everything, but it ranks right up there with Oxygen".-Zig Ziglar

[sportsjb2]

"The Ultimate Failure is Giving up"

[spikegirl09]

BE THE KIND OF WOMAN THAT WHEN YOUR
FEET HIT THE FLOOR EACH MORNING
THE DEVIL SAYS " OH CRAP, SHE'S UP!!! "

"GOD DETERMINES WHO WALKS INTO YOUR
LIFE, ITS UP TO YOU TO DECIDE WHO YOU
LET WALK AWAY, WHO YOU LET STAY, AND
WHO YOU REFUSE TO LET GO!! "

[BaudLight]

I don't know if I would call them "inspirational" but,  I do prefer the funny quotes over the serious ones.  Jack Handey and Steven Wright always have some nice ones.  Then there are always the re-makes of the classics, like: "If at first you don't succeed, give up, there's no use in making a fool of yourself."  Not always something you would live by, but worth a laugh.

[falcon9]

Jack Handey and Steven Wright always have some nice ones.  

"You know how it feels when you're leaning back on a chair, and you lean too far back, and you almost fall over backwards, but then you catch yourself at the last second? I feel like that all the time." - Steven Wright 

[bigfoot951]

"To quit drinking was the easiest thing I ever did.  I must have done it over a thousand times."

Albert Einstein.

[PMZ908]

"I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed."

 Marco Polo, on his death bed in 1324

[kay7]

I have my mother in my head saying "Better safe than sorry" a LOT    Sometimes she throws "A Stich In Time Saves Nine" in there.  She's always right 

[bleyd]

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." - Bruce Lee

[BizELady]

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein