Favorite Quotes

[Tinkermommy]

I love quotes from famous or not so famous people that make you think (or laugh). I thought we could share our favorite quotes with each other.

Here are a few of mine.


“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.” - attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." -Rabindranath Tagore


“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.” - Wayne Gretzky


I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” ― Rumi


"There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that." - Brian Andreas


Feel free to post yours! I love to collect new ones.

 

[rlduvall]

"If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty." Marilyn Monroe

 

[DJinPA]

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." Thomas Jefferson

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

"Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either." Walt Disney

 

[lovesmurfs]

A few of mine are in my signature.

Also:

"All the water in the world won't sink a ship, unless it gets on the inside"

"You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there." Edwin Louis Cole

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."

"Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can." John Wesley

 

[Malibustyle23]

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

 

[PigletsPal2]

"This too shall pass." The Bible, except I don't know chapter and verse.

"Take a hot bath." Me, when my DDs complain about not feeling well.

Queen Colleen

 

[rlduvall]

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog . . . it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx

 

[Adipoo]

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

[Malibustyle23]

"Sometimes I would like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world, when He could do something about it...but I'm afraid He may ask me the same question." Anonymous.


It's never too late to live happily ever after.


The things you take for granted others are praying for.


Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

 

[Sanchez]

"The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons." - Don Draper

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools
Douglas Adams

My favorite though I think I saw similar quote recently that predated this one

 

[PollyannaMom]

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends." - Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." - Mother Theresa

 

[Gina]

"Calm seas don't create skilled sailors." -- African proverb


"Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget,
That sunrise never failed us yet." -- Celia Thaxter

 

[Robinrs]

Don't say something to someone if it feels better to say it than it is for them to hear it.

You TELL people how to treat you.

Each one Teach one


Children spell love T I M E.




These changed my life.

My favorite proverb:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight
Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord and shun evil.


and my favorite biblical text:

No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.

 

[Malibustyle23]

You TELL people how to treat you.



Children spell love T I M E.

My version would be you SHOW not tell.

I absolutely love the time quote. I try to emphasize this to my husband all of the time but he can't or rather won't comprehend it. I'm afraid he's going to realize it when it is entirely too late.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Children spell love T I M E.

Ooh, I like that one too!

 

[mrsdon]

If you can't say something nice about someone don't say nothing at all....
Thumper

 

[antmaril]

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup." Beethoven

 

[Iforgetmypassword]

"...so I asked Jesus, 'why was there only one set of prints in the sand?' And Jesus replied, 'because the Sand People ride single-file, to hide their numbers.'"