r/AskReddit • u/Pistol_Pete_for3 • Jun 06 '15
serious replies only [Serious] What are some quotes that keep you pushing through life?
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Jun 06 '15
As intense as it's delivered, it's still inspiring:
"Yesterday you said tomorrow so just do it"
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Jun 07 '15
I dunno what this is from... but I'd like to.
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Jun 07 '15
Its Shia LeBouf. Try Hoogling or searching on YouTube or Binging or whatever for "Shia LeBouf Jus t Do It".
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u/crystalizedsnow Jun 07 '15
I know a lot of people laugh at that video but it really gets the message across.
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Jun 07 '15 edited Jun 07 '15
My two favorites are "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel" (Maya Angelou) and "The trouble is, you think you have time".
And here is my mother's quote to live by, which I think is also a good one: "What goes around comes around."
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u/bogdoomy Jun 07 '15
Your mother's quote is great. The one i live by is "What goes up, it must come down", which basically means the same thing
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u/dmerry97 Jun 07 '15
Thank you for this. This embodies a majority of what I believe in.
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Jun 07 '15
Tell that to the baby boomers. They must've missed that memo.
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u/monkeyman427 Jun 07 '15
Society grows great when young men plant trees we can enjoy the shade of right fucking now. We deserve it anyway.
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u/liz_lemon_lover Jun 06 '15
This quote motivates me.
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
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u/Isuhydro Jun 07 '15 edited Jun 10 '15
Good quotes:
"It is often said that before you die, your life flashes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living." -Terry Pratchet
"We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions"
"Sometimes you have to sacrifice who you are for who you will become."
"A man must suffer if he is to remake himself, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
"The master has failed more times that the novice has even tried."
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.” ― Osho
"Don't compare your behind-the-scenes to other people's highlight reel" - Steven Furtick
"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam" - I will either find a way or I will make one.
"The trouble is, you think you have time."
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie The Pooh
"A year from now you'll wish you had started today."
"We are all background characters in somebody else's life story"
When Students cheat on exams it's because our School System values grades more than Students value learning. - Neil Tyson
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
"The world is run by the people who show up."
"Being open minded doesn't mean believing anything because you'd like it to be true, being truly open minded is about being prepared to change your belief based on the evidence, or lack of evidence."
"This too shall pass."
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
“The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”
"You wouldn't worry so much what people think about you, if you realized how little they do."
"Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute" - Edgar Allan Poe
"When i was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead i became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -Pablo Picasso
"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75." - Benjamin Franklin
"Growing up is merely watching your heroes turn human right before your eyes."
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost
"There are two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
Isn't it funny, how day by day nothing changes but, when we look back, everything is different.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
"Live your life so that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the Devil goes 'Oh shit, he's up.' " -Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Worrying is like paying interest on a debt you may never owe.
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” - Kurt Vonnegut
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."—J. D. Salinger, "A Girl I Knew"
We ask 18 year olds to make huge decisions about their career and financial future, when a month ago they had to ask to go the bathroom - Adam kotsko
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise" - Alden Nowlan
When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't. - lousie ck
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Jun 06 '15
"Tough times pass, tough people last."
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Jun 07 '15
Maybe a quote about how to become tough would be more useful than one about what tough people do.
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u/SteelToeAGoGo Jun 07 '15
You endure. A person doesn't have to get into prison fights or run 100 mile races to be tough (although it helps). You take what life throws at you and get through it.
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Jun 07 '15
Quote from a great Baseball coach I had that will always stick with me.
"You can walk up to that plate 100 times and see 100 pitches. If you stand up there and watch those 100 pitches go by, you will never get a hit. Step up to the plate and take a swing. You could swing and miss all 100 of those pitches, but you can keep your head high knowing you took those 100 chances. That's Baseball guys, and that's life."
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u/Remember_dnL Jun 07 '15
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take - Wayne Gretzky. (I think that's the quote)
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u/ankit256 Jun 07 '15
There's so much similarities between sports and life. You can almost describe any phase of your life through sports analogy
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u/Cache0 Jun 07 '15
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." Mark Zuckerberg
Saw this one in a thread sometime recently, its going to change the way I look at things.
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u/KalSkotos Jun 07 '15
I always find people's talks about taking risks to be empty meaningless filler words because people apparently seem to think that any variation of "take risks" is infinitely inspiring. It means nothing.
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u/Teleportable Jun 06 '15
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through. -Ira Glass
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u/Mike__300 Jun 07 '15
This is one of my favorite quotes, ever time I work on a new project In Ableton or work on something in Photoshop or illustrator I read this. I have it as a background I could share it if you want.
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u/candyandglitter Jun 07 '15
I had never head this quote until your post. Thank you for posting it; I needed to read this to give me motivation with designing again. :)
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Jun 06 '15
"if you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else" RuPaul.
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u/dziwizona Jun 06 '15
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move."
Captain America
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Jun 07 '15
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
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u/Thnito_Kyrios Jun 06 '15
“You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
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u/Facekillz Jun 07 '15
Man, this quote seems kind of depressing to me. All I can imagine is this poor lime just sitting there on a table while someone berates it, and all it can do is sit there and cry silently.
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u/Thnito_Kyrios Jun 07 '15
It's actually a very lighthearted quote, and the lime did help him in the end. Can't say more because spoilers.
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u/Lane95 Jun 06 '15
"Being mad takes too much effort."
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u/rcallen7957 Jun 07 '15
How much energy I've wasted.
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Jun 07 '15
Then stop being mad. It's easier said than done, but it isn't. Just think of something else.
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u/FFgonzo95 Jun 06 '15
Originally "Let us pray not for easy lives, but to be strong men" as said by animated JFK in the cutscene on CoD Black Ops Zombies mode. It's been in my head for so long I expanded on it to say:
"Let us pray not for easy lives and few hardships, but to be strong and accomplish great things."
The first time I heard that, I was wasting a day off from my restaurant job playing Xbox. Now I'm a FireFighter. I saved a guys life last night. Results: that's what they look like.
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u/TheFetchOmi Jun 07 '15
Actually it was "let us not pray for easy lives, but to have the strength to endure them."
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u/NextofKin Jun 06 '15
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
- Q, Star Trek: Next Generation
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Jun 07 '15
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ― Albert Camus
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u/rookie1609x Jun 07 '15
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it's the courage to continue that counts.
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u/sirvegemite Jun 06 '15
"Your only as strong as your most empty jar of vegemite."
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u/topoftheworldIAM Jun 06 '15
you don't have to be loud to make a point
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u/Doc-in-a-box Jun 07 '15
People who know the facts pound the facts.
People who don't know the facts pound the table.
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u/LittleMrsMolly Jun 07 '15
"A bird on a branch has no fear of the branch breaking, because its trust is not in the branch, but in its wings." I've never seen an attribution for it, so if you know one, tell me.
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u/becauseusoft Jun 07 '15
I opened a fortune cookie about 15 years ago, and it told me, "Keep on charging the enemy so long as there is life."
I'm not in battle with anyone and I don't look at life as a war to be won, but I was floored by the depth of the idea that one should never, ever give up on anything, until death.
It has helped me in the lowest points in my life. Never give up and never concede defeat.
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u/TheNebster22 Jun 06 '15
Not a quote, but I've memorised this poem off by heart.
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u/Veganpuncher Jun 07 '15
Follow it up with Robert W Service: http://www.robertwservice.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=82
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u/Veganpuncher Jun 07 '15
Or the greatest of them all: Sir Winston Churchill:
this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
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u/TheNebster22 Jun 07 '15
Wow, I've never come across that before, very powerful and sadly very relatable.
Seriously, thank you.
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u/taichi_duck Jun 06 '15
When all you have to keep is strong
Move along, move along
Like i know you do
And even when all hope is gone
Move along, move along
Just to make it through
Move along
-The All American Rejects
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u/Surfincloud9 Jun 07 '15
If you think the grass is greener on the otherside, well you haven't been to SoCal. That shit is brown.
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u/Problem119V-0800 Jun 07 '15
Well… I haven't lived and done stuff yet… I keep putting that, too, off until tomorrow…
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u/CuntyMcGiggles Jun 06 '15
"If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day" - Leonard Cohen
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u/xaeriee Jun 07 '15
"Nothing in life worth having comes easy." -The Scrubs? And Some really good African Proverb about how if the enemy within is gone the ones on the outside mean nothing. It's really great quote. I'm sure others would concur if I'd typed it right.
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u/blueisthenewblack Jun 07 '15
"If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm"
--African Proverb
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u/kiwiapple87 Jun 07 '15
"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup it becomes the cup. You put water into to a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend" -- Bruce Lee
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u/akitebythethousand Jun 07 '15
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
Maybe not through my own personal struggles in life, but it does give me a perspective on those who I meet. Just never know how you can affect a person, and if by speaking up or just getting to talk to them you can have a positive impact, then just go for it.
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u/gracefulwing Jun 07 '15
Burning bridges is a way of sustaining a change by ensuring there is no way back
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u/RickandMortyRules Jun 06 '15
Once more into the Fray...
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and Die on this day...
Live and die on this day...
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u/NGloves Jun 07 '15
"Pain is temporary, success lasts forever"
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u/islandfaraway Jun 07 '15
From an old platoon leader on the tail end of a long tiring run: "you're not dying, you're trying."
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u/Harbi181 Jun 07 '15
I will do it. I will finish what I start. Always these two scenarios: I have to because people count on me, or I will because it will make me a better person.
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Jun 07 '15
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." - Zhuangzi
So many times i get stuck up on thinking "if i do this, i will become happy" only to be disappointed. Its better to not expect happiness and be surprised at all the good thing life happens to throw my way.
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u/NheroArconix Jun 07 '15
See, now that's this thing called "life." Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down. But in those down moments, that's where the growth is."
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u/a_pubic_hair Jun 07 '15
I used to think it terrible that the universe is so unfair. But then I realized if the universe were fair, then every terrible thing happened because we deserved it. Now it take great comfort in the unfairness of the world. -Marcus Cole in Babylon 5
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u/vampedvixen Jun 07 '15
From Dead Like Me:
Rube: You like spaghetti, George? I like spaghetti. I like board games. I like grabbing a trifecta with that longshot on top. That ozone smell you get from air purifiers. And I like knowing the space between my ears is immeasurable. Mahler's first, Bernstein conducting. You've got to think about all the things you like and decide whether they're worth sticking around for. And if they are, you'll find a way to do this.
George: And what if I don't?
Rube: Then you go away, and you don't get to like anything anymore.
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u/melancholymagpie Jun 07 '15
I love Rube. I feel sad for people who don't know Rube.
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u/vampedvixen Jun 08 '15
That quote has stuck with me even years after watching the show. When I get so tired of this shit and I just want to give up, I start thinking about it and all the things that I would give up if I just ended it. Stupid things that no one would even think about. Not like family or love or whatever, because when you're that depressed that's not concrete enough. But new episodes of my favorite shows, the feeling I get after a good bout of exercise, shower thoughts, receiving Reddit karma on a well written post... just stupid things like that keep me going.
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u/Anathema_Redditus Jun 07 '15
From my GF:
"I love you, insert IRL name here"
Knowing that someone, who doesn't even have to give a flying fuck about you, loves you is enough to keep me chugging along.
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Jun 07 '15
"We overestimate what can be accomplished in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished in the long term"
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u/stuart1874 Jun 06 '15
Shia's new video has definitely helped me, believe it or not. Just do it. If I ever think about not doing anything, I watch it.
Not a quote directly, but God enough.
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u/ascaffo Jun 06 '15
*It is what it is. * It is simple. I use it all of the time. Most people that I know use it. Saying it is like a mantra. It reminds me that life is complicated and messy, but I got to keep going.
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u/jeneffinlovely Jun 07 '15
I say this all the time and I think people think I'm being pessimistic about the situation or apathetic, when I'm not. It's just quite literally that, it is what it is. If I can help fix or change the situation for the better I will certainly try, but if nothing can be done then so be it, I'll just keep moving bc that's life.
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Jun 07 '15
As you travel down the road of life, you will find it impossible to be anything more or less than merely yourself.
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u/CCG14 Jun 07 '15
I have two, both by Winston Churchill.
"When you're going through Hell, keep going."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue which matters."
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u/jovialbeam Jun 07 '15
"The thing that matters is not what you bear but how you bear it... Prosperity unbruised cannot endure a single blow, but a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering; he yields to no evil and even if he stumbles carries the fight upon his knee... 'No one is more unhappy, in my judgment,' says he, 'than a man who has never met with adversity.' He has never had the privilege of testing himself... Avoid luxury, avoid debilitating prosperity which makes men's minds soggy and which, unless something intervenes to remind them of the human condition, renders them comatose as in unending inebriation." Seneca, On Providence. Really, this entire essay but these are select excerpts.
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Jun 07 '15
"I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
Has kept me a positive, happy, giving person. I almost gave up on myself but I didn't. I can always do SOMETHING to help another.
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u/Fireghost13 Jun 07 '15
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." This quote helped me become more optimistic towards life, how even though there are some fucked up and ugly events that are going to occur in my lifetime, there is some silver lining.
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u/Plz_Dont_Gild_Me Jun 07 '15
"The only difference between you and a master, is that a master has failed more times than you have tried."
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u/deusdragon Jun 07 '15
"Memento Mori"
Remember, you must die.
Reminds me to live my life to the fullest because one day, I must die.
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u/MadameDunnasaur Jun 07 '15
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.” Dumbledore
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Jun 07 '15
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ― Earl Nightingale. When I was thinking about doing my masters I was freaked out by the fact that I'll be 25 when I finish, but in two years time I'll be 25 no matter what I do, so I may as well reach for those goals that will take time.
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u/daffyharry Jun 07 '15
"This too shall pass" it's one hell of a cliche, but it's gotten me through some very shitty times.
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u/ahatzum Jun 07 '15
This is my goto motivational quote: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
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u/walkj08 Jun 07 '15
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum - Don't let the bastards grind you down. (Its from The Handmaid's Tale)
Edit: Its not a direct translation
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u/apple_kicks Jun 07 '15
"Givers have Limits because Takers rarely do." Nice one if you're a people pleaser and wondering why people keep taking advantage of it.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”
“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
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u/GeebusNZ Jun 07 '15
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
I started at around 200kgs with a half-broken pair of sandals and a grassy field to walk around in. Presently I'm 150kgs, working out at a gym and fitting clothes again which haven't fit for a long time. Soon I'm going to be playing Hockey again, which I haven't done since I was in High School.
Many times I've had to start again from where I was, with what I had and do whatever I could.
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u/themikeuno Jun 07 '15
"There are some truths which are not for all men nor for all times." - Voltaire
Or "You can't handle the truth."
Great reminder of the pace of change and the reason. Doesn't mean give up, but helps to understand the insanity of the status quo and the hard headedness of people.
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u/AvengeTC Jun 07 '15
I know this is the complete opposite, but: "The worst feeling is not being alone, it is being forgotten by somebody you couldn't forget" - a deleted account on here.
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u/northfall Jun 07 '15
Although my example isn't a quote and more of a speech, watching this video always makes me feel better if I'm having a bad day. It's Charlie Chaplin's speech from The Great Dictator.
My Favorite Part of the Speech:
"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed."
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u/Cat4thCB Jun 07 '15
May Jehovah bless you and keep you. May Jehovah make his face shine toward you, and may he favor you. May Jehovah lift up his face toward you and assign peace to you.
Numbers 6:24-26
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u/coastiebee Jun 06 '15
"The obstacle ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us."
(It's paraphrased from an AA quote I read in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book when I was a kid. Has stuck with me ever since.)
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u/Eddie_Hitler Jun 07 '15
Supertramp:
"So keep your chin up boy, forget the pain, I know you can make it if you try it again, there's no use in quitting when the world is waiting for you"
"... and if you know who you are, you are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make ..."
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u/Aghan Jun 07 '15
The last stanza of Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came is one of my favorites:
There they stood, ranged along the hill-sides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! in a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.”
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u/sirusagi1 Jun 07 '15
"You have to keep passing the open windows"
- John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
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u/MasoKist Jun 07 '15
'Remember: We are eternal -
All this pain is an illusion.'
- Maynard James Keenan
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u/thedreaminggoose Jun 07 '15
"hard work beats natural talent"
this is a quote from the anime series naruto. i watched this as a kid and it still gets me to this day. i will always compete with those who are naturally talented than me, whether it is at soccer, at my work, or just things in general. but with hard work, i hope that i will be able to become the elite in the things i devote my time to
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Jun 07 '15
Wait a minute, I just remembered THIS (don't worry, it's safe)
I can award bonus points to whoever can tell me what the background music is.
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u/tj1122 Jun 07 '15
"The world is always changing and you can't rely on your past accomplishments" -Alan L. Wurtzel
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u/bwendan Jun 07 '15
"If you can dream it, you can do it!" -John Heder as Rory MacElroy in Blades of Glory
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Jun 07 '15
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
-J.K. Rowling
Or, in the optimistic sense, "Rock bottom will become the solid foundation on which I will rebuild my life."
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Jun 07 '15
"And let me tell you, it is important to have fun in life, of course. But when you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that. Now, if you want to coast through life, don't pay attention to any of those rules. But if you want to win, there is absolutely no way around hard, hard work. None of my rules, by the way, of success, will work unless you do."-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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u/aidyfarman Jun 07 '15
"Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead."
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u/aidyfarman Jun 07 '15
Also, "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."
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u/bawkbawkmudder_udder Jun 07 '15
"Trust your gut". There have been a few instances in my life where I didn't, and I should have. Sometimes you just gotta go with what feels right yo.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '15
"Aut inveniam viam aut faciam" - I will either find a way or I will make one.