Positive quotes

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"Success comes to those who make it happen, not let it happen"


"It's not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."


"Good things come to those who wait, but only what's left over from those who hustle."


Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."


"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, man can achieve."


"There is no I in TEAM."


"The last 4 letters of American is I CAN."
 
We must think things, not words.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

Forgive your enimies, but never foret their names.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
 
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary, is that little extra."

"Triumph, is just try with a little bit of umph!"
 
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." - Rlaph Waldo Emerson

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
excellent thread i say ole chap. heres some of my favorites

"What does not kill me makes me stronger" Nietzche

"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best." Joe DiMaggio

"I didn't hear no bell, get up and fight this guy hard" Mic-Rocky

"boards..... don't hit back" Bruce Lee

"Remember, Roman, that it is for thee to rule nations. This shall be thy task, to impose the ways of peace, to spare the vanquished, and to tame the proud, by war."
Livy 650 BCE

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." Aristotle

Before the Battle of Thermopylae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows.
He replied "Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade."

When Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the huge Persian army and demanded that the Spartans lay down their arms.
Leonidas told Xerxes "MOLON LABE",or "Come And Get Them."

Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil, Roman poet

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent"

"Get up you son of a bitch cause Mickey loves you" Rocky 5

"The Lord has prepared my hands for battle and my fingers for war." -Psalm 44

"The more hair I lose, the more head I get!" -anonymous

"Beer is proof, God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin

"true wisdom exisists in knowing that you know nothing" Socrates

ok i better stop, theres so many.
 
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely in
an attractive and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, steak in one hand,
beer in the other, body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out and screaming:
'Damn, what a ride!'" -- Unknown

That is my favorite.

Others:

"Take chances. When rowing forward, the boat may rock." -Chinese Proverb

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly." -Robert H. Schuller

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." -- Grandma Moses

That's all I got for now!

Foo

:cheers:
 
bullfight critics ranked in rows, crowd the enormous plaza full, but only one is there who knows and he's the one that fights the bull -J.F.K
-Drew Longshore

man who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with smelly fingers.....................

Always cheat, always win, the only unfair fight is the one you lose.

"He who stand on toilet is high on pot".
"He who fart in church, sit in own pew".

Kill one man and you're a murderer.
Kill many men and you're a conqueror.
but kill them all, and you're a god.

some of these arent positive quotes but i couldnt help it
 
Always my pick-me up when I get blue I turn too
Marley. And what does he say? dis tings ere....

Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.


Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
There are three groups of people:
1 Those who make things happen;
2 Those who watch things happen;
3 Those who wonder what's happening.


"It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane." - Charles Lindbergh


"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can..." - Sydney Smith



"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." - Arthur Wing Pinero, playwright



"The secret llies in how we handle today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today...that special block of time holding the key that locks out yesterday's nightmares and unlocks tomorrow's dreams." - Charles Swindoll, Clergyman & writer



"Your companions are like buttons on an elevator. They either take you up or they will take you down" - anonymous
 
better to live one day as a lion, than 100 days as a sheep!

" Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."
Jean De La Fontaine

You must show no mercy-Nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you-For your greatness will silence them all. - Ultimate Warrior

"A wise man fights for something he believes in, while a fool fights for something he doesn't understand".

"Out of food, 3 days. Out of water, 2 days. Ammunition low. Moral is high. We will hold." - Last transmition from a Japanese Commander in the Pacific.
 
this is tattooed on my left forearm-

Dream like you'll live forever and live like you'll die tomorrow.

i also heard a quote similar to the last one listed by travelguy.

the story goes that an american battalion in Okinawa was being completely overrun by the Japanese. the group there knew that they were going to die and knew that the japanese had tapped into their communication lines. the last transmition form them was,
"Send more Japs."

now THATS bad ass.
 
From my grnadfather:

"May the sun always shine on your face, the wind be at your back and a woman between your legs" I was 9


Men fall in love with their eyes, woman fall in love with their ears - some polish person

Im batman

"You will bath in sunlight one moment and be cast on the rocks the next. You must look into the storm and say "Do your worst! For I shall do mine!" Then the world will know you." -Count of Monte Cristo

Live fast die young leave a good looking corpse

Whens the last time you heard someone on their deathbed saying I wish I did less?

"I can give you that which is most valuable. My freedom? No, for as you know freedom can taken away, I speak of knowledge" -Abbe

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

"Dad you killed Zombie Flanders! He was a zombie?"
 
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bow lines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."

-Mark Twain
 
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