What Is Your Favorate Say And Or Quoate

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Hello im interested to know what is your favorate saying and/quote . (I hope you don't mind me posting these in the same thread)

My favourite saying are:

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

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

" Winners never quit quitters never win"

My favourite quoats are.

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” - Steven Hawkings

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one." - Bill Gates

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein

I have a few, they are thoughts I would hope to/like to live by (if you can't tell, I like Emerson and Thoreau:



Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. – William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. – William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but not what we may be. – William Shakespeare

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle

Hope is a waking dream. – Aristotle

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. – Confucius

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. – Gerry Spence

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

Learning is not compulsory…neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (attributed)

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. – Kahlil Gibran

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. – Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. – George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Emerson

Light a fire for a man, keep him warm for the night, set a man on fire and you'll keep him warm for the rest of his life.

"I love it when a plan comes together" - Hannibal Smith.

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange." Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist

"Humanity's dead...it died in the 1970s." CockneyRebel - 2009

Gratitude is acceptance in motion. - Me, today.

"Be on guard against giving interpretations of Scripture that are farfetched or opposed to science, and so exposing the Word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers."
-St. Augustine

As a Christian who accepts and understands science, I agree with this wholeheartedly.

"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

As a moderate, this reflects my opinion of the extreme left and the extreme right exactly.

“I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.” Will Shriner

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

[Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.]

And:

These quotes are great.

"We're the Toppermost of the Poppermost!" John Lennon of The Beatles - 1964.

"You're all quote!" - Jan, Red Shift - Alan Garner

"When it rains, it pours" - common but seems so true

"I think therefore I am" - some fanous person

"See the Invisible, to the impossible, row row, fight the power" - lyrics to a song in Gurren Lagann about just fighting on

"It's not the fall that kills you, it is the sudden stop" - Richard B. Ridick, he has a few quoates, and I am sure they mean something

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards - Soren Kierkegaard