Great thread; I've compiled many memorable quotes over the years...enjoy:
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
\tFrank Outlaw
"Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. Let not my end not disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death" -Genghis Khan
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, tearing him up by the root and taking from him all that he has." -Genghis Khan
"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself." -Johnny Carson
Ego is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
\tJacques Benigne Bossuet
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
\tStewart E. White
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
\tThomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
\tNapoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
\tAndre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Observe not how one wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
\tCharles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
\tAmy Tan (1952 - )
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
\tEpicurus
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
\tSir Winston Churchill
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
\tWilliam G. McAdoo
A real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
\tThomas Paine
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
\tFrank Outlaw
"Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. Let not my end not disarm you, and on no account weep or keen for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death" -Genghis Khan
The pleasure and joy of man lies in treading down the rebel and conquering the enemy, tearing him up by the root and taking from him all that he has." -Genghis Khan
"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself." -Johnny Carson
Ego is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
\tJacques Benigne Bossuet
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
\tStewart E. White
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.
\tThomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
\tNapoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
\tAndre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Observe not how one wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
\tCharles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
\tAmy Tan (1952 - )
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
\tEpicurus
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
\tSir Winston Churchill
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
\tWilliam G. McAdoo
A real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
\tThomas Paine
I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling
