Quotes that you find inspiring?

[Frederick Skelly]

It's that time again. :) Here are the ones I've collected since the last thread like this. Please add yours!

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
- Winnie the Pooh

"The means by which an end is reached must exemplify the value of the end itself."
- Unknown

"When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home."
- Tecumseh, American Indian Chief

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
- U.S. President Ronald Reagan

“If there’s anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play,” Jones said Sunday night. “OK? Understand? If we are disrespecting the flag, then we won’t play. Period. … There is no room here – if it comes between looking non-supportive of our players and of each other or creating the impression that you’re disrespecting the flag, we will be non-supportive of each other. We will not disrespect the flag.”
- Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, 10/8/17

"Tolerance is giving every other human being every right that you claim for yourself."
-Unknown

"I am reminded of the words of someone who told me that most of us are here to learn but some of us are here to teach. Those with Down Syndrome are here to teach."
- Unknown.

"It is one thing to say F you to someone and totally another thing to spray paint their name on a bridge abutment with an F you."
Gordon Stump, SMC

"There are lots of woodworking forums available that you can join that are free, I'm always baffled when people complain about The Creek when there are so many other places they can be."
- Keith Outten, 5/4/19

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
Radio broadcast (March 21, 1943), cited in "Churchill by Himself" (2008)

From Genesis: "And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the earth." Then He made the earth round...and He laughed and laughed and laughed!
- Unknown

[Marshall Harrison]

He who goes 4th on the 4th with a 5th may not be around to go 4th on the 5th.

[Edwin Santos]

"It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice" - John Templeton

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I didn't say half the ***t people attribute to me" - Bruce Lee

[Peter Rawlings]

I love inspirational quotes. Here's a couple that resonate with my way of thinking.


"Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something"

Plato

"Do or do not, there is no try"

Yoda

[James Waldron]

If you ain't got time to do it right,
where the hell you gonna find the time to do it over?

[Jim Koepke]

Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.

-Glade Byron Addams

Well done is better than well said.

-Benjamin Franklin

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-Dorothy Parker

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

― Saint Francis of Assisi

jtk

[Steve Eure]

"Can't never could"!
James Eure

[Al Launier]

My Signature

[Wade Lippman]

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
BenjaminFranklin

They were so wise back then.....

[Bruce Wrenn]

Better to be seen, than viewed. Opal in Pickles comic strip.

[Pat Barry]

"You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run..."

[dennis thompson]

Deeds not words

[John K Jordan]

The older I get the more I know how little I knew.


Things my mother said:

It doesn't take any effort to be civil/pleasant/kind to someone.

Treat others exactly as you would want them to treat you.

How to get along with women: listen VERY carefully when they speak. (Then do what you please!)

Eat your peas. And think for a moment of the kids in ------- who go to bed hungry. Every night.

[Bob Glenn]

Temporary fixes that work tend to become permanent. G. Tate

[Bob Glenn]

Oh, and I almost forgot.........Life's too short to use old sandpaper.

[Mark Hennebury]

People that have a Plan "B" are not committed to Plan "A"

[Ken Barney]

"Too much time spent polishing your image, tarnishes your character." -- Heard Dale Brown (former LSU basketball coach) say it, but not sure it's his quote.

[Kev Williams]

You can't always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need
--Mick Jagger, Kieth Richards

I've lived my entire adult life around that simple rule, it's served me well :)

[Rod Sheridan]

"We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty. "

"There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey."

John Ruskin


Regards, Rod.

[roger wiegand]

"Treat others exactly as you would want them to treat you."

A common sentiment that is pretty much 100% wrong, at least as literally read. "Treat others as they would like to be treated" is closer. Or just treat them with respect and generosity.

It took me the first half of my life to finally figure out that other people don't like being treated the way I like to be treated. I place a very high value (indeed an extreme value) on logic and data and regard emotions and feelings as something that purely inhibits logical thinking (I did not find Mr. Spock even remotely odd). I have emotions, but always try to discount them. It took a really long time to learn that lots of people make choices based on emotion, and that their feelings are really important to them-- as important as my logical analysis is to me. Treating people the way I wanted them to treat me was an utter disaster!

[Prashun Patel]

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends

MLK

Hate the sin. Love the sinner.

Gandhi

[Mike Cutler]

"The sin punishes itself."

[Ron Citerone]

It is not enough to do your best, you must do what is required. Winston Churchill

[Patrick Walsh]

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

John Lennon

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP.

Winston Churchill

[Bill Jobe]

"You've got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away, know when to run..."

DON'T DO THAT !!!
I had that song stuck in my head all day 2 days ago.

[Arthur Fleming]

“All people bring joy, some by arriving, some by departing” Mark Twain
”Good, better, best. Never let it rest, till your good is better, and your better, best” My wife’s Grandfather

[John K Jordan]

DON'T DO THAT !!!
I had that song stuck in my head all day 2 days ago.

Reminds me of the quotable famous last words "Hey Bubba, watch this!"

[terry cole]

My dad used to say "It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."

[Bruce Page]

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Carl Sagan

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

"Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend...if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second..if there is
one."
Winston Churchill, in response

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

[Frederick Skelly]

Reminds me of the quotable famous last words "Hey Bubba, watch this!"

Or, the famous last words "Here. Hold my beer."

[Bruce Wrenn]

From the "Funny signs in Colorado" you tube video. "My wife is still hot, only it now comes in flashes."

[Malcolm McLeod]

"Well behaved women seldom make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

[Art Mann]

"If you lay down with the dogs, you will get up with fleas".

[Dave Anderson NH]

Whether you think you can or you can't.....you are right.

USMC when it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

In God we trust all others pay cash.

[Perry Hilbert Jr]

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve. Clarence Darrow

[George Yetka]

“This is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.” —John Goodman

[Marc Jeske]

I did not read the entire thread, but HIGHLY suggest Google Chrome w "Momentum" "Extension".

Everyday a new very good motivating quote.

HIGHLY recommend check it out.

Marc

[Bert Kemp]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

[Ole Anderson]

From my dad, "Honesty is the best politics". If only both sides followed that...

[Frederick Skelly]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Spoken like a retired Marine!

[James Pallas]

I don't have to be in the same room watching you. I can hear whether or not you are doing things correctly. If I have to be in the same room watching you work, you have a problem. My carpentry mentor on the job trainer. That I'm happy to have had. And yes I listen to myself work still.
Jim

[Jim Koepke]

If you don't do stupid things when you are young, you'll have nothing to laugh about when you are old. --Unknown

jtk

[Richard Yates]

I know a little bit about a lot, and I know a lot about a little bit
Unknown

Everyone’s ignorant, just on different topics.
i think Will Rogers

[Bill Dufour]

He who cheats at solitaire can't be trusted anywhere (my Mom).

The early bird gets the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. (I forget)

[michael langman]

Love Conquers All.

[Bill McNiel]

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
-Hunter S Thompson

[Bill McNiel]

[QUOTE=Patrick Walsh;2925049]Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

John Lennon

Love it Patrick!

[Patrick Walsh]

You and I must drink the same water.

Love Hunter..

Watching news about plane crash in Alaska noticing your in Washington state. Wanna move to remote Alaska so bad.

But how to make a living. Maybe I can give up veganism. Take up hunting and eating animals and just survive and forget about work in the conventional sense.


"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
-Hunter S Thompson

[Chuck Wintle]

If you don't do stupid things when you are young, you'll have nothing to laugh about when you are old. --Unknown

jtk
And if you never make stupid mistakes then you never learn anything. :D

[Chuck Wintle]

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world.

John Lennon

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP.

Winston Churchill

Wise words to live by!

[Bill Dufour]

The cream and the scum float together

[Stewie Simpson]

The Fish Rots From The Head Down.

[Jim Koepke]

Interesting to see what can be inspiring to others.

jtk

[Frank Drackman]

Every time a read another post about Patrick Walsh rebuilding the Martin I think of this one - Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

[Patrick Walsh]

I haven’t overdone anything.

Imop what I have done is just barely good enough. Come take look you’ll find all kinds a things to nit pick. Put you know that’s coming from a guy that finds the odd imperfection is a 200k car restoration. That’s without the cost of the car factored in.

I’m sure there is someone somewhere with the skill to put me to shame. Like one of those car guys..


Every time a read another post about Patrick Walsh rebuilding the Martin I think of this one - Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

[Jim Koepke]

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
- Goethe (1749-1832)

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West (1892-1980)

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

jtk

[Brian Dehmlow]

"I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned."
- Richard Feinmann

"The art of procrastination is like fine wine -- it takes patience."
- Rev. Dr. Mary Sue Dreier

"The first 90 percent of the task accounts for the first 90 percent of the time. The remaining 10 percent of the task accounts for the other 90 percent of the time."
- Tom Cargill

[Rob Luter]

"Be nice or leave" - Anon.

"If you can't do, you can't stay" - Anon.

[James Cheever]

"Anyone can achieve their fullest potential. Who we are might be predetermined; but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed, but it can be challenged. 'Every man is born as many men, and dies as a single one.'" - Martin Heidegger


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke


"Try not; do, or do not. There is no try. “ - Jedi Master Yoda

[Bill Carey]

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Rosa Parks or Alexander Hamilton - take you pick.

[Bill Jobe]

"I'd rather have questions that can't be answered, than answers that can't be questioned."
- Richard Feinman.


He's facinating to listen to, isn't he?

[Brian Deakin]

In God we trust everyone else must document

[Scott Bernstein]

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Nikki Lauda

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread , they can sure make something out of you. -Muhammed Ali

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. -Muhammed Ali

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment – Jim Rohn

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Ghandi

Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright…until they speak. -Richard Feynman

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never pushed through the obstruction. -William James

[Mike Kees]

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

[Andrew Seemann]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. -Hanlon's Razor

Only the paranoid survive. -Andy Grove

Details matter. Steve Jobs

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -Franklin Roosevelt

Life's tough; it's tougher when your stupid. -John Wayne

There are two ways to do everything, brains and brute force. Brute force is usually quicker and simpler. -An engineer I used to work with

Time heals and time forgets; you shouldn't smoke them god d@mn cigarettes. -The Gear Daddies, "Time Heals"