Quotes that have influenced your life...or others?

Question

Anyone have some meaningful quotes they would like to share with me and how if effected your life?

Answer 1

“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."



- Ernest Hemingway, Death In The Afternoon



“Do you love life? Then waste not time – for it is the very stuff of life.”



- Benjamin Franklin





“Time is the school in which we learn

That time is the fire in which we burn." Delmore Schwartz, Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day



All three have had an impact on me at one time or another though probably the Hemingway quote the most in that, when I first read the lines, I first felt the press of time upon me - the realization that I did not have `forever' to do what I wanted to get done in life. The Delmore Schwartz quote just added weight to that `press' and moved me onward and the Franklin quote keeps me steady.

Answer 2

I am influenced a lot by Jesus, but not at first. Regardless of what we believe, we are influenced by others. In my early years as a Christian I was like you were. I had a particular theology, and anybody who contradicted me was wrong. People who are influenced by man will act that way, and they will drive people away. They are probably the reason why you don't believe today, even though you don't realize it. There were probably errors in their theology that you mistook as proper Christian belief, knowing that it was wrong. I continued like this for a lot of years, but about six years ago I had an epiphany, that caused me to press into The Lord. Now I am more interested in a relationship with him than in theology. This is when He starts influencing a person. Then if we press in enough we start seeing the signs, miracles and wonders that he promised us. I have started seeing these, and I am well influenced. I now know by experience that he is real.

Answer 3

I liked the first one before it was in classrooms



"Stand up for what you believe in, even if you are standing alone."

"We are all the same, human in all our ways." - Good Charlotte

"Are you gonna walk through life, or are you gonna run?" - Anonymous

"Every man thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"We are the change we wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

"I am woman, hear me roar...or is that my vacuum cleaner?" -?





There's more, but all those have made me think, laugh, cry, or wonder at some point in my life. I actually cant remember my very super fav, the one that changed my life when I was 13! how ironic.

Answer 4

It's hard to get by just upon a smile (Cat Stevens)

Illusions have never turned into something real.

Carpe Diem

You'll be loved the day that you'll be able to tell your weaknesses to the one you love without having him using what you said to empower himself.

We only live once, but for someone who knows how to live, once is enough.

Answer 5

"Life's not a spectator's sport. If all you're gonna do is sit and watch, you're gonna watch your life go right on by without you."

That was something Laverne, a gargoyle, said in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Answer 6

Expecting the world to be nice to you because you are a good person is like expecting a bull to not charge you because you are a vegetarian.



Dog psychology - if you project fear, you attract aggression.



In order to be successful one must present an image of success

or "fake it till you make it"

Answer 7

From fullness, emptiness is drawn,

from emptiness, fullness is drawn.



This quote puzzled me when I was 16 years old. Throughout the years, it never failed to be proved true.

Answer 8

Lincoln:

This country with it's institutions belong to the people who inhabit it, whenever they should grow weary of the existing government they shall exercise their constitutional right to dismember or overthrow it.

I may have missed one word going by memory here.

Answer 9

No man, for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and the other to the multitude without finally becoming bewildered by which is true : be true to your self and others

Answer 10

I heard Vin Scully say this one on a dodger baseball broadcast and since then I use it a lot:



"If you wanna make god laugh, tell him about your plans."

Answer 11

to the world you may be one person,

but to one person you may mean the world.





Just because i am having a bad day doesn't mean i have to ruin others days, thinking like this usually salvages my bad days.

Answer 12

"Expect the worst and you will never be dissapointed"



It told me that I should just be happy with what I have because there are many people out there that are worse off.