Quotes That Inspire & Motivate You

A few of mine

She was told it couldn't be done, but she went ahead and did it anyway.


"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A friend is a person who goes around
saying nice things about you
behind your back.

A woman is like a teabag...
You never know how strong she is
until you dip her in hot water.

We can't all be stars,
but we can all twinkle.
~~~
When it's dark enough,
you can see the stars.
(Charles A. Beard)
Keep your face toward the sunshine
and the shadows will fall behind you.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
(James M. Barrie)
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.

Life is like an onion....
you peel away one layer at a time...
and sometimes you cry.
Life is like a roll of toilet paper...
the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
~~~
Life is like an ice cream cone.
Just when you think you have it licked
it drips all over you.

True happiness lies not in having everything you want,
but rather in enjoying everything you have !!

If you come to a wall in your life,
that is so high you cannot get over it
and so low you cannot get under it....
just go around

Happiness is like honey...you pass it around but some of it will stick.
 
"Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist"
Robert G Allen


"Don't be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic"
Unknown
 
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power that they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. Its an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. Its a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.

I remember seeing this upon first landing in Athens in 2004, what an awesome quote.


Impossible is potential

How many times has it been proven and we STILL find it too hard to grasp !
 
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will be met with a success unexpected in common hours.

----Henry David Thoreau
 
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Was watching Lord of the Rings DVD again, and never thought i would see a holywood movie give me one:

'I wish it need not have have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.

'So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.’


wow thats good, especially with current market turbulance.
 
The Road Less Taken (Robert Frost)

Whilst on this topic:

The following used to be used as background lyrics for BT investments on foxtel when my parents first got it. Foxttell's bloomberg opened a whole new world to me (this would have been 1997 or before), but i have never forgoten this poem. To me it encapsulates the whole purpose of value based investing.

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
 
Biggest Loser

Bob won the Biggest loser last night - biggest weight loss in the history of the game. He lost HALF his body weight.

His little speech at the end was awesome and included this little gem:

"There is no more TRY, there is only DO."

By the way; how hot did Tiffany look? And, she's a lovely person. I'm in love.

Meagan was also very impressive.

They all did a fantastic job in the timefame they were set.
 
My old man has several tattoos; one of which reads, "aude aliquid dignum".

It translates to, "dare something worthy".

That phrase, along with countless other things that Dale has inspired in me, keeps me striving to constantly raise the bar in everything that I do. It's awesome, I love it :)
 
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