What is your favorite quote..?

Question

What is your favorite quote..?

Answer 1

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

- Winston Churchil

'The riskier the road, the greater the profit.'

- "Rules Of Acquisition"

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,

give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"

Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars, and the rewards of wealth still await those wise enough to recognize this deep thrumming of our common pulse.

- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, "The Centauri Monopoly

"Avoid direct contact with the enemy until the time and place are just right. Stealth, speed, mobility, force composition, and operational flexibility are the key to success."

- "Brotherhood Combat Operations Manual"

"Misdirection is the key to survival. Never attack what you enemy defends, never behave as you enemy expects and never reveal your true strength. If knowledge is power, then to be unknown is to be unconquerable."

- "Star Trek: Birth of the Federation", Romulan intro

"Always remember to get rich is Glorious."

- Deng Xiao Ping

Answer 2

"I believe both sides have valid points" Tedd from Scrubs, Season 6, when asked his position between Republican or Democrat.

Answer 3

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

Answer 4

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 5

I have several.

"Be your own best friend and don’t forget to wink at yourself now and then."

Diane von Furstenburg

" If you don’t know where your going.

Any road will take you there."

George Harrison

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;

the wise man grows it under his feet."

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom, one helps you make a living,

the other helps you make a life."

James Oppenheim

"You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything."

Doug Floyd

"Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you"

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away."

" If you can read this thank a teacher and since it’s in English, thank a soldier !! "

“May You Always Have Love To Share, Health To Spare And Friends That Care.”

Answer 6

"In the end, it will be ok. If it's not ok, then it's not the end."

:)

Answer 7

My favorite quote is from Henry DavidThoreau :

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Oh wait...I also like this other one of his...

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Answer 8

there are too many!!!

one by Henry David Thoreau that i really like is "what lies behind and what lies beyond or tiny compared to what lies within" or something like that.