Life Quote
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Kevin Welch Quote
“There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read them. But all that is going to matter is that little dash between them.” – Kevin Welch
Paul Johnson Quotes
Let us share with you some great Paul Johnson (journalist, historian, speechwriter and author) Quotes:
“It does not always pay to have a golden tongue unless one has the ability to hold it”
“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”
“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family”
“There was some trucker guy and he said, ‘How’s the horses?’ … And I said, ‘The horses are OK, but I’m about to run out of fuel.’ So he let me siphon five gallons out of his truck. I don’t know his name.”
“For the same reason Ascend wanted Stratus’ technology, Lucent is also interested.”
“This quarter’s a throwaway.”
“But Cisco has not grown through acquisitions, … They’ve grown despite their acquisitions. The primary growth, as we saw in the quarter, was clearly from routers, which is Cisco’s historical product.”
“Although Cisco’s lowered stock price may be seductive to investors, we believe that there is still near term downside to the stock, … It is clearer than ever to us that the current Cisco appears to be merely a shadow of its former self.”
“We believe their leading competitors will continue to take market share from Cisco at an accelerated pace throughout the slowdown — especially in the service provider focused product arena.”
“In fact, we believe that the lengthening sell cycles may give incumbent carriers a chance to really experience next-generation equipment in the labs and, as a result, move away from Cisco products.”
Determination Quotes
– “It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – William Somerset Maugham
– “It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.” – John J. Watson
– “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – John Calvin Coolidge
– “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
– “Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” – James Corbett
– “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” – Anthony (Tony) Robbins
– “A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” – Ronald Reagan
– “We will either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
– “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi
– “When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis
– “The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” – Terry Josephson
– “If-determination is fine but needs to be tempered with self-control.” – Unknown
– “Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum
– “A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes
Short Tattoo Quotes
Please share with us all your experiences with and about tattoos and we will share with you some great short tattoo quotes.
“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die” –Unknown
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Unknown
“Wars begin in the minds of men” –Unknown
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that do not work” –Thomas Edison
“Success is the best revenge” –Unknown
“To be irreplaceable you have to be different” –Unknown
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” –William Henley
“Music is what feelings sound like” –Unknown
“Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today.” –James Dean
“If you want something you’ve never had, do something you’ve never done.” –Unknown
“You weren’t put on this earth to be ordinary.” –Unknown
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” –Sun Tzu
“Seize the day, place no trust in tomorrow” –Unknown
“Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, follow your heart.” –Unknown
“Actions speak louder then words.” –Unknown
“Tell me I can’t, i’ll show you I can.” –Unknown
“Stand for something, or youll fall for anything.” –Unknown
“No man alive, knows the struggles i’ve survived” –Unknown
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” –Unknown
“I may be lying in the gutter, but I’m staring at the stars.” –Unknown
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let your joy scream across the pain.” –Unknown
“God gave burdens, also shoulders.” –Unknown
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Leap and the net will appear.” –Unknown
“Kites rise highest against the wind.” –Unknown
“And in time this too shall pass” –Unknown
“Revel in the chaos” –Unknown
“Fall seven times, stand up eight” –Unknown
“To live is the rarest thing in the world” –Oscar Wilde
“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all” –Unknown
“Pain is weakness leaving the body” –Unknown
“May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.” –Unknown
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” –Unknown
“What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.” –Unknown
“Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.” –Wedding Crashers
“A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.” –William F. DeVault
“The perfect tattoo… the one I believe we are all struggling toward… is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.” –Cliff Raven
“Beauty is skin deep. A tattoo goes all the way to the bone.” –Vince Hemingson
“I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I’m thinking, okay, here’s a gal who’s capable of making a decision she’ll regret in the future.” –Richard Jeni
“For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.” –Cher
“Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.” –Billy Elmer
“Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.” –Jack London
“The tattoo attracts and also repels precisely because it is different.” –Margo DeMello
“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.” –Unknown
“Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish” –John Maxwell
“Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos – they’re rebellious” –Jennifer Aniston
“Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent; like tattoos and marriage.” –Drew Barrymore
“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.” –Nicole Appleton
“I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller” –Stephen Wright
Art Quotes
– “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
– “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
– “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
– “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
– “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner
– “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
– “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
– “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch
– “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
– “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita
– “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell
– “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann
– “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso
– “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse
– “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault
– “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
– “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
– “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
– “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
– “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
– “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
– “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
– “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
– “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore
– “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
– “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide
– “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds
– “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker
War Quotes
– “War does not determine who is right – only who is left.” – Bertrand Russell
– “It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” – Unknown
– “I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, «Mother, what was war?»” – Eve Merriam
– “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” – Albert Einstein
– “The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.” – David Friedman
– “«There are no atheists in foxholes» isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes.” – James Morrow
– “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” – Colonel Potter
– “All the arms we need are for hugging.” – Unknown
– “A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.” – Napoleon
– “A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.” – German Proverb
– “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.” – Arthur Koestler
– “Everyone’s a pacifist between wars. It’s like being a vegetarian between meals.” – Colman McCarthy
– “Draft beer, not people.” – Bob Dylan
– “The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
– “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” – John F. Kennedy
– “What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk.” – Unknown
– “Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people – and kill them.” – Pacifist Badge, 1978
– “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” – Ernest Hemingway
– “War makes thieves and peace hangs them.” – George Herbert
– “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeanette Rankin
– “You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.” – David Lloyd George
– “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg
– “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – José Narosky
– “We kind o’ thought Christ went agin war an’ pillage.” – James Russell Lowell
Inspirational Funny Quotes
– “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain
– “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard
– “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby
– “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb
– “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis
– “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will
– “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
– “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown
– “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft
Long Life Quotes
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. – Bill Cosby
Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise – one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. – C. A. Dykstra
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. – Groucho Marx
May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige
Plagiarism Quotes
– “Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.” – Nora Roberts
– “Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” – Howard Dietz
– “I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.” – Charles Kuralt
– “I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.” – Will McDonough
– “Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” – Guy Debord
– “If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” – Charles Caleb Colton
– “If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner
– “Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.” – Zelda Fitzgerald
– “No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.” – Gilbert Gottfried
– “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.” – George A. Moore
– “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” – Dean Inge
– “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner