Inspirational quotes/sayings etc

[RobbyBobson]

"I eat T-bone steaks, I lift barbell plates, I'm sweeter than a German chocolate cake. I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour. I'm the reflection of perfection, the number one selection. The ladies' pet, the men's regret, where what you see is what you get, and what you don't see, is better yet."

In all seriousness, if you're at one end of the confidence scale, try turning things on their head and act like you're the opposite. Not incremental improvement, go for the jugular! Look yourself in the mirror, give yourself a few Ric Flair "WOOOOOO!"'s, and go get 'em. If you think you'll never be normal, don't be - just be a better kind of extreme. Worth a go.

[Azi]

[indiegirl1980]

'Keep on b*ggering on'

and ' I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat'.
both Sir Winston Churchill

[Defiance]

Originally Posted by Azi

I think Gok Wan would disagree with this advice

[buttonlane]

"Life is to short to be little."
~ Benjamin Disraeli

[BritishPeace]

"We have in our means for the first time ever to create a new world afresh, this New Jerusalem, this England"

Prime Minister Clement Attlee

[Songar]

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

[Songar]

More often than not, a hero***8217;s most epic battle is the one you never see; it***8217;s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 04-18-06

[indiegirl1980]

'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. Then give up. No sense in being a damn fool about it'. W.C Fields

'Life is what happens to you whilst you're busy making other plans'. John Lennon.

'You are in charge of your own ship. If you want to go and sail it into the rocks, that's your fault'. Tom Chaplin, when asked by a journalist who he 'blamed' for his ending up in rehab.

[diplodocus]

'Fear is the friend of exceptional people' Cus D'amato

'I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.' Michael Jordan

[Grogoch]

[José Raúl Capablanca]

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.***8221;
Albert Cumus

[iTz0kt0Bu]

***8220;Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.***8221;
Leo Buscaglia

***8220;The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.***8221;
Leo Buscaglia

[wjfox]

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elizabeth Kubler Ross

[buttonlane]

"Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other."
Seneca


"Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor."
Da Vinci

[Gibson]

""



Stanley Donwood.

[Sunshine Recorder]

I was shown this image at a recent meetup I attended:

[buttonlane]

The Law of mind
All causation is mental. Your thoughts become your realities.
Your thoughts are creative. You become what you think about most of the time.

Think continually about the things you really want and refuse to think about the things you dont want.
~Brian Tracy.

[Azi]

This whole vid is pretty inspirational to me.

[Progress]

^ Very good

There is only one sensible thing to do with this empty existence and that is fill it.

[rupertthebear]

Originally Posted by loner1

get rich or die trying- 50 cent

real deep that one

[iTz0kt0Bu]

***8220;Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase"
Martin Luther King Jr.

I need to follow this quote.

[buttonlane]

Just read this and swallowed it whole. Gonna drill it into my subconscious.
Love this.

"If you are settled inside yourself, you don't have to win peoples affections. They either like you or they don't. Their opinion is irrelevant."

[Progress]

^ I think the tough part is becoming settled inside ourselves, we can so often be very self critical. Sometimes I reckon it's our own opinion of ourselves that is far more the issue than other people's view. There's no benefit in ignoring other people's (normally imagined) opinions if our own is so destructive. Just my own experience anyway.

[iTz0kt0Bu]

The most miserable and tortured people in the world are those who are continually straining and striving to convince themselves and others that they are something other than what they basically are.

[David K]

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Nelson Mandela, during his trial for sabotage. Supreme court of South Africa, Pretoria, April 20 1964.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/200.../nelsonmandela

[pjc]

Given to me by my daughter :

AS I LIVE EACH DAY

As I live each day
may I do my part
to make one difference
to touch one heart
and through each day
may it be my goal
to encourage one mind
and inspire one soul.

[iTz0kt0Bu]

Don't cry over spilt milk -I got this from a self help vid and basically it means don't worry too much over things that aren't in your control.

There is much more to a person than what meets the eye.

[girlinterrupted]

"I`d rather have a life of `oh wells` than a life of `what ifs`" - Unknown

[buttonlane]

Every time you overcome a new obstacle you metamorphose, you become a brand new person, you become bigger, like the lobster you grow into a new and bigger shell which you will eventually also crack to reform another and another and yet another.

~Geoff Thompson.