Inspiring Quotes

[Gernia 691]

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Ghandi

Edited April 18, 2015 by Gernia

[Jeremiah 1,586]

"Not all monsters do monstrous things"- Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

Once of my favorites comes from a dream sequence in Baldur's Gate. The quote pertains to the situation in which the protagonist finds himself, but I've found it generally applicable to the tempestuousness of life:

 

 

"From within the deluge you can see it does not move as one, but is filled with currents, eddies, and undertows. Pockets of calm afford breathing space, whilst violent whirlpools threaten to rend limb from limb. Ultimately it seems undirected, and lacks a driving will, a quality you have in abundance. You may be caught within, but sufficient determination can shape what you need to survive. There are still options open: still choices to be made.

 

As the tide presses forward, you steer as you wish, atop a ship called Persistence and under sails made of resolve."
 

 

This comes to mind whenever I find myself stretched almost to my breaking point or unsure of my ability to cope with something.

[FlutterHigh 81]

"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black" -Henry Ford

 

Find it quite inspiring as it led to the industrialization of painting cars different colors other than the original black that every car was made back in the day.

[ToastedScone 398]

"Turn today's zero into a one! Shine with all you've got!" -Chika Takami, Love Live! Sunshine!!

[Splashee 28,589]

"I can't see the forest for the trees"

 

That's my life, always struggling to understand the world around me.

[ExplosionMare 18,110]

I’ve always held onto these two:

[CatCat 1,119]

“You know that we’re all superstars, we’re the ones who made it this far”

-Pauline, Mario odyssey

good quote, I take it as you’ve made it this far in life, that makes you a superstar 

[Ragland Tiger 3,447]

You can't be brave if only wonderful things happen to you.

--  Mary Tyler Moore

[TheRockARooster 52,991]

Grew old, never grow up.

[Treeglow Flicker 13,982]

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

-  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

 

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,477]

“When the world says ‘Give up,’ hope whispers ‘Try it one more time.’”

-Unknown

”When I was 5 years old, my mother told me the key to life was happiness. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “Happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”

-John Lennon

”If you’re going through Hell, keep going.”

-Winston Churchill

[Fluttershutter 2,648]

On 2/3/2020 at 10:39 AM, Splashee said:

"I can't see the forest for the trees"

 

That's my life, always struggling to understand the world around me.

I've never understood that. A forest IS trees.

[Ragland Tiger 3,447]

What do you do with the mad that you feel
When you feel so mad you could bite?
When the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong...
And nothing you do seems very right?

What do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do you pound some clay or some dough?
Do you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or see how fast you go?

It's great to be able to stop
When you've planned a thing that's wrong,
And be able to do something else instead
And think this song:

I can stop when I want to
Can stop when I wish
I can stop, stop, stop any time.
And what a good feeling to feel like this
And know that the feeling is really mine.
Know that there's something deep inside
That helps us become what we can.
For a girl can be someday a woman
And a boy can be someday a man.

 

-- Fred M. Rogers

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

 

Edited February 9, 2020 by Ragland Tiger

[Cwanky 17,652]

In many ways, Paradigm City is merely an ostentacious reflection of our own world. What Schwarzwald says about fear, knowledge and thinking still very much apply to our own worlds. Our world survives off fear and without it we are helpless creatures. More than ever, we need to learn to think for ourselves and learn, instead of trapping ourselves on a false world of a stage.

 

Edited April 28, 2020 by Cwanky