Inspirational/Impressive quotes, what gets your heart going?

[Fawbish]

I love reading inspirational and impressive quotes, and I'm always on the look out for ones that really make you think. I mean really, really good ones. Often, the simplicity of the message can convey so much more than would be believed in a tiny sentence. I dont have a particular favourite yet, but I've heard/read some rather good ones.


I'd like to know what peoples favourite, inspirational, intellectual quotes are...what are the quotes that reach your heart? Render your thoughts into a total and utter "That could NOT be more right." state of mind?


Im looking for stupidly clever ones.



One of my favourites, not inspirational as such,

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Winston Churchill





I have one of my own that I thought of a while back. I dont know where it came from, but I like it. It's sort of my own motto really.

"The beating of my heart and the breathing of my lungs is enough monotony for this lifetime." - Me


Im saving some good ones to add to the thread as it grows hopefully. Also, has anyone come up with their own quotes, their own mottos towards life etc?


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Best advice ever.

[Fawbish]

I had a bet on with myself that the first reply would be a good one. Thankfully I won.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

One of my favourites and remarkably apposite for this thread

[Reevo8]

Dont know who I am quoting this from,

'Dont give up your tommorrows for today' Think that one is quite good to think about while I am out on the bike.
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[SoND]

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin

"An interest in science cannot be created by simple, safe, boring, commonplace experiments that demonstrate nothing more than a color change. Let there be fire, let there be fury, let the power of the flame burn away your apathy and ignorance and fill your soul with the thirst for knowledge." - Megalomania

"A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one." - Bill Hicks It's just a ride.
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[Fawbish]

[pa_broon74]

Mmm...

Not exactly a favourite, but it sticks in my mind:

"The road less travelled maybe less travelled for a reason." (Jerry Seinfeld)

I was shooting the breeze with a friend recently and out came some musings on alcohol. I was telling him I was in the local Coop and a kid I know (through the world's largest youth organistion in which I occassionally lend a hand) was standing behind me in the queue with his mum. I was buying a bottle of vodka (Glen's as ever) and his mum said "Oh, have they driven you to drink?" I said "yeah, I don't drink any other night of the week" to which the woman behind the counter snorted! (Cheeky fucking cow )

Anyway, we decided that alcohol was life's pollyfilla because at the end of the day if the house you were born into was already riddled with cracks, all you can do is fill them in as you go; things will look better but the cracks will still be there under the surface.

Oooh! Cheery...


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[Roo]

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[pa_broon74]

I was out with a group of friends one night some time ago, one of our party was on the pull and not doing very well. He asked me where he was going wrong, I said; "Your ego is writing cheques your charisma can't cash."

Not exactly inspirational but what can you do. I think as a stand by, in terms of tenets for life in general my favourite quote would be: "Always expect the worst, that way you'll always be pleasantly surprised." Not sure who said it first.


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[Mr Hammers]

A few of my faves;

"One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak certainty of reason - but one cannot have both."

-Robert A Heinlein


"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."

-Alice Kahn


"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."

-Douglas Adams
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[Fawbish]

Yeah, not stolen from Top Gun at all eh Broon?

Still cool though. I never remember things to say in quick witted opportunities.


"I do not know with what weapons world war three will be fought with, but I know that world war four will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
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[Shaun]

[pa_broon74]

[Fawbish]

[pa_broon74]

[Shaun]

Oh yeah, overly bubbly people can be annoying but no half as annoying as people who constantly assume they're going to fail at everything etc, that gets you nowhere fast.

I'd prefer to spend my time with someone who looks for the fun in things, aims high with optimism about their goals than someone says stuff like "I'll try but probably fail".

[Fawbish]

This is better. I feel the inspiration growing within us all already.


Isnt it AWESOME! I mean, WOW!



Serious note. This is good. More quotes. I didnt think people would come up with any I havent read, but you've all surprised me.


Personal motto's summed up in a sentence?
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"Oh....it looks like Average Joe's is forfeiting the match!" - "Yeah, its a risky strategy but lets see if it pays off for 'em Cotton."

[pa_broon74]

[5v3d3b0]

It is not until we have lost everything, that we are free to do anything - Fight Club

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Jefr0]

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should"

Thought of that myself
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[Paivi]

I find that most 'inspirational' quotes just get my stomach going, not my heart.
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[Visitor Q]

Shaun, theres a difference between pessimism and realism

"The power of accurate observation is often mistaken as cynicism by those who do not possess it' - George bernard Shaw

My favourite quote is by Boethios and is used in 24 hour party people;

'It's my belief that history is a wheel. "Inconsistency is my very essence" -says the wheel- "Rise up on my spokes if you like, but don't complain when you are cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away".'

Others,

"Those who risk nothing, do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing"

"A zest for living must include a willingness to die." - R.A. Heinlein

'The reason organized religion merits outright hostility is that, unlike belief in Russell's teapot, religion is powerful, influential, tax-exempt and systematically passed on to children too young to defend themselves. Children are not compelled to spend their formative years memorizing loony books about teapots. Government-subsidized schools don't exclude children whose parents prefer the wrong shape of teapot. Teapot-believers don't stone teapot-unbelievers, teapot-apostates, teapot-heretics and teapot-blasphemers to death. Mothers don't warn their sons off marrying teapot-shiksas whose parents believe in three teapots rather than one. People who put the milk in first don't kneecap those who put the tea in first.' - Richard Dawkins (Russells teapot is pretty much the same thing as the flying spaghetti monster)

and always good to finish on a giggle...;

'take pacman for example,if computer games influenced kids, then we would all be running around a dark room trying to eat magic pills while being chased by monsters and listening to repetitive electronic music'
- Fuck knows, but its funny as
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