Favourite Inspirational/Motivational Quotes?

[Muppet]

HxF,

What's your favourite inspirational/motivational quote? Mine's

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
Latin Proverb

Basically means 'if things aren't going your way, make the effort to try and make them do so'

What about you?

[beth]

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. ~Jean Sibelius

as an actor this just gives me something to go on backstage

[immense]

one my dad always says lol

"there are two ways of doing things... right now or not at all" basically hurry the **** up and do the dishes.

"you cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind" same as above really. don't think for too long - get on with things and live your life

Ive found Sites that have said he's done both a bat and a bird

However - EVERYONE KNOWS him for Biting a head off a bat, "which is what gave him that nickname"

Ozzy said himself during interviews - that he thought it was a toy bat

[Conservative,]

Mine is...from my teacher...

"If he [me] is given two choices, he will pick the third" :}

"But I also We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit."
Aristotle

[Chippiewill]

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. " Bill Gates

[FlyingJesus]

"I feel my best when I'm happy."
-Winona Ryder

"I'm not into wrinkles."
-Winona Ryder


Most fabulous woman alive

[buttons]

i like personal quotes of other peoples experiences, ones that are not always supposed to be motivational but are in a sense anyway...


"Effort does not betray you. If it ever does, that just means you didn’t put enough effort into it. " ~ nicole jung

"If there's no such thing as love, then what are we made of?" ~ leeteuk

"No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either." ~ jaejoong

"My dream isn’t to become the “best”, it’s to be someone who I’m not ashamed to be." can't remember....

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"When you’re depressed, poop." ~ eunhyuk

[lPinoy]

"Try and fail but don't fail to try"
Cant remember

"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. "
Anne Frank

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
Anne Frank

"If you risk nothing you gain nothing"
Bear Grylls

[AgnesIO]

"You're not a failure because you do not succeed, you are a success because you tried"

[FlyingJesus]

"You're not a failure because you do not succeed, you are a success because you tried"

Not if you fail