Favourite Quotes

What is your favourite quote(s) of all time?

I'm currently exploring quotes, and just wondered what other people thought of them?

 

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

Micheal Jordan

 

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"The law is reason, free from passion."
Aristotle

 

"I am the punishment of God.. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you"

- Genghis Khan

 

I have so many quotes that I love.
Anything by Benjamin Franklin =)

 

"Most people miss opportunity because it's wearing overalls and looks like work" - Ben Franklin

 

Like I said, anything by Ben.
I used to have an entire folder filled with my favorite quotes by him, but my harddrive crashed and I didn't back them up

 

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

 

Failure to prepare is preparing for failure - Benjamin Franklin

Sucess only comes before work in the dictionary - Vincent Lombardi

The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory - Bob Marley

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves - Confucious

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us - Nelson Mandela

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity - Rollo May

Dieing is for fools - Charlie Sheen

 

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan

 

I've made my decision.

"I'm Bi-Winning" ~ Charlie Sheen

Thanks for the comments.

On a serious note, those quotes are good, but they all seem to have the same point with different icing. :X

 

"The love that lasts the longest, is the love that is never returned."

"I wonder, what i could do or say to make her like me. I wonder, what or who i need to be to be hers. I wonder, when just being me will be enough.

 

"I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
-Thomas Edison

And I like it because he's basically playing off the fact that he failed 1000 times to imitate Tessella's invention. All the while, he's gloating that he finally succeeded in stealing the idea and becoming famous off of it.

GF Tessella!

 

"I am prepared to die, but never am I prepared to kill a man."

 

This is a quote Shakaka had in his signature for a long time. It's a powerful quote it got me through a hard time in my life.

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on."
— Tupac Shakur

 

"I've got to return some videotapes."

 

"Never say never" - Justin Bieber

 

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.", - Buddha

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.", Thomas Paine

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ", Albert Einstein

 

"A wise man avoids the problem. A clever man tries to solve it."
-Albert Einstein