I've learned to adopt this attitude:
"Lack of planning on your part will NOT constitute an emergency on my part."
"Lack of planning on your part will NOT constitute an emergency on my part."
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What is your favorite motivational quote?
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My favorite inspirational quote
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. " - Conan the Barbarian upon being asked by his teacher "What is best in life?"
Other inspirational quotes - I know the list is long but you should have seen it before I cut it down.
"The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something" - Aristotle
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" -Napoleon Bonaparte
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"I may lose a battle, but I will never lose a minute" - Napolean Bonaparte
"Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)." - Julius Caesar
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. - General Nathaniel Greene
"Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen." - Herodotus
"To those that flee comes neither power nor glory." - Homer
"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." -Niccolò Machiavelli (This must be Steve Jobs favorite
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"And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." - King Henry VI, Part:III, ii, 1 -William Shakespeare
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles
"Fortes fortuna adiuvat (Fortune favours the bold)" - Terence
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Sun Tzu
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington
That made me think of this Far Side comic.
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My favorite inspirational quote
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. " - Conan the Barbarian upon being asked by his teacher "What is best in life?"
Other inspirational quotes - I know the list is long but you should have seen it before I cut it down.
"The wise man speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something" - Aristotle
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" -Napoleon Bonaparte
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"I may lose a battle, but I will never lose a minute" - Napolean Bonaparte
"Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)." - Julius Caesar
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. - General Nathaniel Greene
"Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen." - Herodotus
"To those that flee comes neither power nor glory." - Homer
"I have not yet begun to fight!" - John Paul Jones
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." -Niccolò Machiavelli (This must be Steve Jobs favorite
)"And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak." - King Henry VI, Part:III, ii, 1 -William Shakespeare
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles
"Fortes fortuna adiuvat (Fortune favours the bold)" - Terence
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious." - Sun Tzu
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington
That made me think of this Far Side comic.
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"Anger is not a productive state of mind"
I made it up and it helped me maintain a friendship with my ex five years and counting.
Dale
I made it up and it helped me maintain a friendship with my ex five years and counting.
Dale
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." Makes me work that much harder every time I think of it.
I'm not sure i can pick one. Also i'm not one to remember authors of quotes i come across...just the quotes themselve
"Don't ask for it, go out and win it. Do that and you'll be rewarded"
"Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions"- Robing Hood
"The trouble with religion is that there is just enough of it for people to learn to hate each other but not enough for them to love each other"
"Everyone in life will hurt you, you just have to find the ones worth suffering for"
"Don’t marry a man for his television, marry a man who has vision and one day; his vision will put you on television"
There are others but for the sake of brevity...
"Don't ask for it, go out and win it. Do that and you'll be rewarded"
"Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions"- Robing Hood
"The trouble with religion is that there is just enough of it for people to learn to hate each other but not enough for them to love each other"
"Everyone in life will hurt you, you just have to find the ones worth suffering for"
"Don’t marry a man for his television, marry a man who has vision and one day; his vision will put you on television"
There are others but for the sake of brevity...
mine is a variation on that.
except when I applied it to the packaging industry I ended up on the sex offenders list.
"No matter where you go...there you are."
-- Buckaroo Bonzai, MD, FACS, PHD, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
-- Buckaroo Bonzai, MD, FACS, PHD, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
"Them that can, do. Them that can't, teach."
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
"Them that can, do. Them that can't, teach."
I think the original is...
Those that can, do.
Those that can't, teach.
Those that can't teach, teach gym.
I saw this on a reader board: Love people, use machines. And never mix them up.
The original is quoted below.
"Love people, not things; use things, not people. "
Spencer W. Kimball
Dale
The original is quoted below.
"Love people, not things; use things, not people. "
Spencer W. Kimball
Dale
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, 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, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
"Them that can, do. Them that can't, teach."
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."
I had a friend who always said, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate." - go figure he was a chemistry major....