Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

" like ducks on the pond... on the surface, they look calm and peacefull, but under the water, those legs are going a mile a minute.... i'm just another duck on the pond."
Jimmy McGinty.

oh, oh yeah. oops.

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?" Henry James

"Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it 'lights the candle' instead of 'cursing the darkness'." Anon

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"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." Hassan I Sabbah

"Never whistle while you're pissing." Robert Anton Wilson

"There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul." Baltasar Gracian

"We're all going to heaven, hand in hand".

J. Kerouac

"the law exists to make thinking vigilantes pause before they kill."

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"The only easy day was yesterday." - U.S. Navy SEALS

Here are some quotes that I live by:

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." - Michael Konda

"To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men." - Albert Einstein

"be the change that you want to see in the world."- the true OG, Gandhi

"we the willing led by the unknown
are doing the impossible for the grateful.
we have come so far for so long with so little,
we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."

always loved this--blazing hardcore song by a pretty old nobody DIY Boston band,


Coleman.

"Even the lion is a nomad, before he becomes a king"


"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call up the guy and hold the burning fuse to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."

Jack Handey

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"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth." Carl Jung

"I would like to swim against the stream of time:
I would like to erase the consequences of certain events
and restore an initial condition.
But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts
and each of these new facts brings with it its consequences;
so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out,
the further I move away from it;
though all my actions are bent on erasing the consequences of previous actions and though I manage to achieve appreciable results in this erasure,
enough to open my heart to hopes of immediate relief,
I must,
however,
bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events
provokes a rain of new events,
which complicate the situation worse than before
and which I will then,
in their turn,
have to try to erase.
Therefore
I must calculate carefully every move
so as to achieve
the maximum of erasure
with the minimum of recomplication."


Italo Calvino

"Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth" – Aldous Huxley

"Baseball is a sport, cricket is a philosophy" – Allan H Selig (Commissioner of MLB)

Don't know how motivational these are, but they are two of my favourites!

"Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; Divinely mysterious he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate." - Sun Tzu

One of my favorite quotes ever.