What are some great sayings you have heard that have stuck with you?

Here are a few:

If you have one foot in yesterday, and the other foot in tomorrow, you are peeing on today.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

You can never be too rich or too thin....

50% of the solution to a problem -- lies in defining the problem.

Take what you need and leave the rest...

You can never have too many friends.

After all is said and done -- very little that is said....is actually ever done.

If you think you can do something or think you can't do something, either way you're right.

There is no stress in the world -- only people having stressful thoughts -- and acting on them.....

The only way out -- is through.

And I like the one: If you love somebody, let them go...if they come back, they're yours....if they don't, they never really were.

Ooh, very good Joan!

I'm a quote fiend...goes back to the days of my grandmother...who THRIVED on quotes....so I save them like she did....:)

May the words you speak be tender, warm, and sweet; for tomorrow they may be words you will have to eat.

For any helping profession:

People need to know how much you care before they care how much you know....


When things get rough:

Stay on the train, the scenery will change


Anger:

Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you're the one who gets burned.

Success:

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other....(perfect for us ADD'ers)

Why dont we starte a Quote Collection

actully we allready have

How long can we keep it going

FOREVER if it were up to me.....!!!

Okay a few more:

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

a friend is a person who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you forget the words.

That which doesn't kill us only makes us stronger

Here are some of my favorites, which I have collected over the years:



"If you can't beat them... arrange to have them beaten." - George Carlin

" 'Illegitimi Non Carborundum' - Don't let the bastards get you down." - Anonymous

"The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote 'a flute without holes is not a flute and a donut with no hole is a danish.' He was a funny guy." - Ty Webb (Chevy Chase), in Caddyshack

"I'm on a 30 day diet. So far I've lost ten days.''

"You can fool some of the people all of the time... and those are the ones to concentrate on." -- Anonymous

"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent." - Publilius Syrus

"You tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." - Homer J. Simpson ;)

"Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without your accordion." -Anonymous :lol:

"The average American's dayplanner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dartboard." - Dennis Miller ;) (One of my very favorite quotes)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Einstein

"All men are ignorant, just in different fields." - Einstein

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa

"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive." - Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Einstein

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." - Einstein

"The faster you go, the shorter you are." - Albert Einstein

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Einstein

"The hottest places in hell are for those who in times of great difficulty declare their neutrality." - Dante

"Take your Jedi weapon! Use it. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!"
- The Emperor, Return of the Jedi

"Tonight, when you lay your head on your pillow, forget how far you still have to go. Look instead at how far you've already come." - Bob Moawad

"If you think a million dollars will solve all your problems, you've never had a million dollars." -- Marianne Williamson, Unity minister and noted author

"The great end of life is not knowledge, but action." -- Aldous Huxley

"Everyone who's taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference." -- Nolan Bushnell

"Whatever you can do or dream you can -- begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Act as though it were impossible to fail." -- Winston Churchill

"It's a very short trip. While alive, live." -- Malcolm Forbes

"No one can be the best in everything, but you can be your best in everything you do." -- Dave Bruno

"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 that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains." ~ Emilie Cady

"90% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 10% are glad you got 'em." - Lou Holz ;)

"Excellence is a form of deviance." - Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change ;)

"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself." - Dwight L. Moody

"The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Do not follow where the path may lead...Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Robert Frost

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs." - Joan Welsh

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." - Brian Tracy

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." - Theodore Roosevelt

"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." - Donald M. Rumsfeld

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." - Arthur H. Sulzberger

"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel." - Old Muslim Proverb

"We can do that. We don't even need a reason." - Carl the Greenskeeper, in Caddyshack

"If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow still comes." - Senegalese Proverb (one of my favorites :) )

I also like...

"If a man stands in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him....Is he still wrong?" (Dennis Miller).

or

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." (Isaac Asimov)

and

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." (Woody Allen)

Eric: THe ones of yours I liked the most:

- If a man stands in the middle of the forest speaking.....

-Remember not only to say the right thing at the right place....

-If I take care of my character....

-Everyone who's taken a shower has an idea...

-A man's health....pills or stairs...

-Sometimes ones pays most....

VERY GOOD:)

Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. —Helen Keller

You must do that which you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt

Imagination is more important than knowledge. —Albert Einstein

If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.—Emile Zola

"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, {and} there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."—Peter Drucker

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."—George Eliot

“A writer uses a journal to try out a new step in front of the mirror. —Mary Gordon

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” ~E.M. Forster

I have some more, I just have to find them. I too love quotes.

"May the bridges we burn light the path ahead of us" (author unkown)

"Men have dreamed of liberalting machines, but there are no machines of freedom" (Michel Foucault)

"and so love goes, and so life goes, and so I go...you carry on my brother..." (last line of the movie "the last time I committed suicide..based on the life of Neal Cassady).

"there exists an international citizenship that has its rights and its duties, and that obliges one to speak out against every abuse of power, whoever its author, whoever its vitims. After all, WE ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE GOVERNED, AND THEREBY OBLIGED TO SHOW MUTUAL SOLIDARITY"

"I think we need to be aware that very often it is those who govern who talk, are capable only of talking, and want only to talk"

"If the 358 decided to keep $5 million or so each, to tide themselves over, and give the rest of the away, they could virtually double the annual incomes of half the people on Earth. AND pigs would fly"
Georg Henrick Von Wright

It's what you learn after you know it all -- that counts.

When you're through learning -- you're through.

Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges; but from the things didn't work out, that's when I've really learned.