Favorite quotes

You either like me or you don't. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don't have that kinda time to convince somebody else.
~ Daniel Franzese

 

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know. - Matthew Arnold

 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon

 

"Is this just math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?" - Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly to Karl Rove on election night shortly after Ohio went to President Obama and gave him the 270 electoral votes needed to secure re-election.

That quote made my entire night.

 

"The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them."

 

"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused."

 

It's not enough to leave school and just desire to succeed in this cold, cruel world...You must also have the desire to change it." - George Feeny

 

“Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.”
? Kay Wills Wyma, Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement.

 

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful" : John Wooden.

 

Real women dont worry about being dimes because real men dont carry change.

 

You can always find some way to turn a challenge into a blessing; all it requires is a bit of imagination.

~Hilda Charlton

 

"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 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 up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for 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 he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt-

Forgive if this is a repost. This quote is life for me. I draw strength and inspiration from it.

 

why do i think of TDK when i read this?

no pun intended.

 

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)

 

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. -E.L. Doctorow, writer (b. 1931)