Motivational Quotes Thread

[6431hoho]

I think quotes are helpful for us to understand the world and be inspired to do the right things.

 

You may create a quotation/take someone else's quotation and post it but please give the credits to those who said them.

 

 

"Why be a man when you can be a success?"

-Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

 

"Life's like a play;it's not the length but the excellence of acting that matters"

-Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid 1-st century AD)

 

"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."

-Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)

 

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

-G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)

 

 

Best quote (in my opinion )

"In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another. "

-Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

[Flareon]

Oscar Wilde is my favorite source of witticisms. I took these from the internet.

 

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

 

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

 

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

 

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

 

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

 

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Oscar Wilde

 

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

 

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

 

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

 

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

 

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

 

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

 

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

[Obnoxious]

I personally perfer the dry and often insulting humor of Winston Churchill.

 

Although I'm always prepared for martyrdom, I prefer it postponed

-Winston Churchill

 

An appeaser is one who feeds crocodiles, hoping it would eat him last

-Winston Churchill

 

Any man under 25 and not a liberal has no heart, any man over 25 and not a conservative has no brain

-Winston Churchill

 

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

-Winston Churchill

 

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it

-Winston Churchill

 

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

-Winston Churchill

 

The best argument against democracy is a 30 minute conversation with the average voter

-Winston Churchill

 

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true

-Winston Churchill

 

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

- Sir Winston Churchill, the man who saved the world.

[The Thing]

Well, to add to that Oscar Wilde Collection:

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Now, some of Einstein's quotes:

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Oooooo wisdom. Deeeep)

Albert Einstein

"I know not what World War III will be like, but I know that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

And of course: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein

 

Here is the cruel humor of Stalin and his cruel view of life:

Note Spoiler tags around several cruel ones and offensive ones:

 

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

 

[hide]Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Joseph Stalin [/hide]

 

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Joseph Stalin

 

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Joseph Stalin

 

[hide]Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

Joseph Stalin [/hide]

 

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

Joseph Stalin

 

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Joseph Stalin

 

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Joseph Stalin

 

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin

 

[hide]In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin

 

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

 

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Joseph Stalin [/hide]

 

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Joseph Stalin

 

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

 

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Joseph Stalin

 

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.

Joseph Stalin

 

[hide]When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Joseph Stalin [/hide]

 

Joseph Stalin has some really cruel humor that he lives his cruel life as, and his cruelty are shown through these cruel quotes, among which there are actually several that are somewhat cruelly true.

[Hellbender]

"Trying is the first step towards failure"

--Homer Simpson

[ctc7752]

Don't give up and don't give in. Believe in yourself. Open your eyes and see things as they really are. Excellerate your efforts. Love yourself first and foremost.

[YT2095]

"we really Should have implemented that Procrastination Policy"

 

I`ll let you know who said it later.