What are Your Best and Most Motivating Lines?

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    Hurbermichaelposted 12 years ago

    I need some motivation. Someone give me your best and most motivating lines.

    1. Kangaroo_Jase profile image73
      Kangaroo_Jaseposted 12 years agoin reply to this
    2. imkd profile image60
      imkdposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      "live for today, not for days of life"

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        Hurbermichaelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        wow nice one

      2. alvinalex profile image57
        alvinalexposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        supa!

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    The Writers Dogposted 12 years ago

    I have a couple...

    "Be who you really are and go the whole way." - Lao Tzu

    "Quiet people have the loudest minds." - Stephen Hawking

    Hope these help! smile

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      Hurbermichaelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks. I love the one of Lao Tzu

  3. calpol25 profile image59
    calpol25posted 12 years ago

    Some times the smallest kindness can make the biggest smile on a troubled face. - Calpol25

    Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves - Abraham Lincoln

    These keep me going x

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      Hurbermichaelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Actually I am writing them in my diary. They will be what will give me the energy to move on even in the darkest night and most violent storm. Calpol25 in not your personal quote. Wow it is lovely. Thanks...thanks

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        calpol25posted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Your very welcome Hurbermichael I sometimes think up quotes now and again, but I remember thinking that one up and it just made perfect sense to me.  I hope they help you smile

  4. couturepopcafe profile image61
    couturepopcafeposted 12 years ago

    "There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm." - Willa Cather

    "Ta panta rhei" (everything flows) - Heraclitus

    "Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find that all was vanity;  but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they act their dream with open eyes and make it possible." - T.E.Lawrence

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      Hurbermichaelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, thanks. Guys you are intellectuals. I love what T.E Lawrence says and I should make it my new philosophy.

      1. couturepopcafe profile image61
        couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        And these two about how what we believe matters:

        Luke Skywalker:  "I don't believe it"
        Yoda: "That is why you you will fail"

        "It's not what I am that makes me a success it's what I think I am"

  5. cheaptrick profile image75
    cheaptrickposted 12 years ago

    "Some men can read War and Peace then come away thinking they just read an adventure novel.
    Some men can read a Chewing Gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe"Lex Luthor in the first Bat Man movie...Ha!

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      couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Awesome.

  6. CyclingFitness profile image90
    CyclingFitnessposted 12 years ago

    "People that know it all are annoying to those of us that actually do!" anon

    Not sure who it's by but I personally find it a great motivating phrase. Some people can "talk the talk...", whereas others can "...walk the walk"

    1. calpol25 profile image59
      calpol25posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      like that one!!! smile

    2. couturepopcafe profile image61
      couturepopcafeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      And both are necessary.

  7. RPirate profile image60
    RPirateposted 12 years ago

    What you do today, you're still going to be doing tomorrow. smile

    It motivates me.

    1. calpol25 profile image59
      calpol25posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      lol that is a good one RPirate smile

      Here remembered this one -

      "If you want a job done right? Do it yourself!" Anon

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        RPirateposted 12 years agoin reply to this

        Nice big_smile

        1. calpol25 profile image59
          calpol25posted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Its one we use here in Northern England quite alot smile

  8. Born2care2001 profile image72
    Born2care2001posted 12 years ago

    I hope these help you as much as they have helped me!

    "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "When you are arrested by fear, there is only one means of escape...the truth."
    - B. Stuart Noll

    "Today is a gift and there is only one appropriate response - gratefulness!"
    Brother David Steindl-Rast

 
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