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45 Inspiring Quotes, Adventure Quotes and Life Quotes

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

1. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Author Unknown

2. “I put all my genius into my life. I put only my talent into my work.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”-Paris Hilton

4. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” –Eminem

6. “I don’t want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.” –Laird Hamilton

7. “As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?” –Charlie Sheen

8. “I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”-Anthony Bourdain

9. “When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” –Rumi

10. “The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski

11. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” –Author Unknown

12. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”-Clint Eastwood

13. “Actions speak louder than words.”-Theodore Roosevelt

14. “Adventure is worthwhile.” –Amelia Earhart

15. “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” – Sun Tzu

16. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”-David Grayson

17. “Chance is the providence of adventurers.”-Napoleon Bonaparte

18. “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” –Voltaire

19. “Go ahead. Be invincible!” –Author Unknown

20. “When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.” –Atomosphere

21. “All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back.” –Avatar

22. “Drop it like it’s hot.” –Snoop Dogg

23. “The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”-Germaine Greer

24. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” –Leonardo Di Vinci

25. “If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti

26. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” –Andy Warhol

27. “Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.” – 50 Cent

28. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” –Unknown Author

29. “Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” –Mohammed

30. “Have less. Do more. Be more.” –Author Unknown

31. “The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind.” – Author Unknown

32. “Wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”-Neil Armstrong

33. “Just do it.”-Nike Slogan

34. “Our truest life is when we are awake in our dreams.” –Author Unknown

35. “Be all that you can be.” –U.S. Army Slogan

36. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

37. “God did not annihilate His son on the cross so that you could live like hell.” –Author Unknown

38. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” –Muhhamed Ali

39. “If you risk nothing you gain nothing.” –Bear Grylls

40. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” –Tupac Shakur

41. “Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.” –Avatar

42. “Proof is in the pudding.” –Author Unknown

43. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”-Clint Eastwood

44. “I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. Do you?” –Charlie Sheen

45. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” –Kanye West

Famous People Quotes #5

Posted on September 20, 2010September 17, 2010 by

“Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.” – Albert Giacometti (sculptor)

“There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet.” –Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” – Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.” – Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” – Frank Zappa

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” – Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.” – G. B. Burgin

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” – Auric Goldfinger, in “Goldfinger” by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Goethe (1749-1832)

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” – Richard Bach

“A witty saying proves nothing.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)

“Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.” – James Stephens (1882-1950)

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.” – Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” – Will Durant

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” – Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

“It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” – Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” – Warren Zevon (1947-2003)

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)