Amazing Quotations
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A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
An elephant is a mouse designed by local govt.
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.
You never learn anything while you are talking.
I always thought looking back on the times I cried would make me laugh; but I never knew looking back on the times I laughed would make me cry.
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.
If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend you're speaking directly to them.
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
The axe soon forgets, but the tree always remembers.
Better an end with pain than a pain with no end.
Wisdom whispers - foolishness shouts
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Women's faults are many, men have just two!
Everything they say and everything they do!!!
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
You can't train a horse with shouts, and expect it to obey a whisper.
You don't lose if you get knocked down, you lose if you stay down.
You only have one chance to make a first impression.
People do not quit playing because they grow old.
They grow old because they quit playing.
cheers
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
An elephant is a mouse designed by local govt.
A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one.
You never learn anything while you are talking.
I always thought looking back on the times I cried would make me laugh; but I never knew looking back on the times I laughed would make me cry.
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.
If you don't want your children to hear what you're saying, pretend you're speaking directly to them.
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
The axe soon forgets, but the tree always remembers.
Better an end with pain than a pain with no end.
Wisdom whispers - foolishness shouts
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Women's faults are many, men have just two!
Everything they say and everything they do!!!
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
You can't train a horse with shouts, and expect it to obey a whisper.
You don't lose if you get knocked down, you lose if you stay down.
You only have one chance to make a first impression.
People do not quit playing because they grow old.
They grow old because they quit playing.
cheers
It is not the critic that counts;muppie said:
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
Who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again,
Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings;
Who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion,
And spends himself in a worthy cause;
Who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Far better it is to dare mighty things,
To win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,
Than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
Because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
At various points in time, these have all been my signature...
How could I have been so mistaken as to have trusted the experts?
- John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs fiasco
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare
Why not go out on a limb?
That's where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
- Nora Roberts
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Elliot
Three stone cutters were asked about their jobs. The first said he was paid to cut stones. The second replied that he used special techniques to shape stones in an exceptional way, and proceeded to demonstrate his skills. The third stone cutter just smiled and said "I build cathedrals".
- Ricardo Semler in Maverick!
How could I have been so mistaken as to have trusted the experts?
- John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs fiasco
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- William Shakespeare
Why not go out on a limb?
That's where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
- Nora Roberts
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Elliot
Three stone cutters were asked about their jobs. The first said he was paid to cut stones. The second replied that he used special techniques to shape stones in an exceptional way, and proceeded to demonstrate his skills. The third stone cutter just smiled and said "I build cathedrals".
- Ricardo Semler in Maverick!
If you don’t fail now and then you are playing it too safe
You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Don’t make excuses for the real answers – Steve Waugh
The mind is like a parachute – it only works when it is open
Shy people raise skinny kid
Unfortunately most people aim at nothing and have amazing accuracy at achieving it
Tell people the truth because they know the truth anyway
Impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does it.
The person who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.
Success has less to do with ability or talent. It has more to do with effort, commitment, hunger & courage.
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.
It's all about luck just ask any loser
Lets work as a team and do it my way
I don't have an attitude problem....you have a perception problem
Go hard or Go home
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
There is no safe position in life, you are going to die anyway
Always strive to get on top in life because at the bottom its crowded
If I have all the money in the world and my children are not happy, what have i got - Jacqui Onassis
Judge a man not by what he does but by what he does that he doesn't have to do
You will win if you don't quit
Most people want to be a winner but don't want to pay the price
The words listen and silent have the same letters
Its hard to beat a man who won't give up - Babe Ruth
Work funds life - it is not life
The world will do what you want it to you just have to ask it
Life responds to those who deserve it not those who need it
Kev
www.gogecko.com.au
You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Don’t make excuses for the real answers – Steve Waugh
The mind is like a parachute – it only works when it is open
Shy people raise skinny kid
Unfortunately most people aim at nothing and have amazing accuracy at achieving it
Tell people the truth because they know the truth anyway
Impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does it.
The person who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.
There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.
Success has less to do with ability or talent. It has more to do with effort, commitment, hunger & courage.
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.
It's all about luck just ask any loser
Lets work as a team and do it my way
I don't have an attitude problem....you have a perception problem
Go hard or Go home
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
There is no safe position in life, you are going to die anyway
Always strive to get on top in life because at the bottom its crowded
If I have all the money in the world and my children are not happy, what have i got - Jacqui Onassis
Judge a man not by what he does but by what he does that he doesn't have to do
You will win if you don't quit
Most people want to be a winner but don't want to pay the price
The words listen and silent have the same letters
Its hard to beat a man who won't give up - Babe Ruth
Work funds life - it is not life
The world will do what you want it to you just have to ask it
Life responds to those who deserve it not those who need it
Kev
www.gogecko.com.au
Well i had to put in these 2....
They are from both of Lance Armstrongs books "It's not about the bike" and "every second counts" This man has an attitude towards life like i have never seen before, he attacks it with everything he's got and i idolise him for it.
the 1st quote is from the very first paragraph of his 1st book and to me it shows how a life should be lived.....(my apologies if it's slighly incorrect as i dont have the book in front of me)
"I want to die at 100miles an hour after screaming down an alpine descent, and cross one last finish line while my wife and 10 studs kids cheer me on then i want to crash into a field of those famous french sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once poiniant early demise....
the 2nd is the final paragraph of his second book.....basically there is a huge cliff jump into water at a place called "dead mans hole" on his texas property and his friends climbed up and jumped from a point higher than they had ever been, then lance gets to the top and here is what it sais:
"I cant do it"! i yelled down
"you scared mellow Janey?"
I stopped short. Ryan and Morris's high-pitched howls of laughtercaromed off the stone canyon walls.
"Thats funny!" i yelled.
I stood there for a moment, laughing with them, And then i turned around.....and ran straight off the edge of the cliff.
I threw myself into the ait. The rock ledge dropped out from under me, and for a fraction of a second i hung in the breeze, my arms pinwheeling and my legs kicking involuntarily, with nothing below but green water. The breath died in my throat. My friends stared upward, open-mouther and laughing at a man thrilled to be in midair......
They are from both of Lance Armstrongs books "It's not about the bike" and "every second counts" This man has an attitude towards life like i have never seen before, he attacks it with everything he's got and i idolise him for it.
the 1st quote is from the very first paragraph of his 1st book and to me it shows how a life should be lived.....(my apologies if it's slighly incorrect as i dont have the book in front of me)
"I want to die at 100miles an hour after screaming down an alpine descent, and cross one last finish line while my wife and 10 studs kids cheer me on then i want to crash into a field of those famous french sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once poiniant early demise....
the 2nd is the final paragraph of his second book.....basically there is a huge cliff jump into water at a place called "dead mans hole" on his texas property and his friends climbed up and jumped from a point higher than they had ever been, then lance gets to the top and here is what it sais:
"I cant do it"! i yelled down
"you scared mellow Janey?"
I stopped short. Ryan and Morris's high-pitched howls of laughtercaromed off the stone canyon walls.
"Thats funny!" i yelled.
I stood there for a moment, laughing with them, And then i turned around.....and ran straight off the edge of the cliff.
I threw myself into the ait. The rock ledge dropped out from under me, and for a fraction of a second i hung in the breeze, my arms pinwheeling and my legs kicking involuntarily, with nothing below but green water. The breath died in my throat. My friends stared upward, open-mouther and laughing at a man thrilled to be in midair......
