Famous/inspirational Quotes

[stabba 10,745]

I'll never be the man me mother was.......LAB

[Frann 882]

Attributed to some officer during the American civil war:
"Don't worry men, they couldn't hit a barn door at this dist....."

[South hams hunter 8,924]

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

I was going to put that, imo the most inspirational thing ever written

[Rebel 833]

If I could buy him for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth, I would be a wealthy man.

 

US General - Vietnam War

[neems 2,406]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YTeudEWOL4w

 

Great quote by Ali

[Huan72 687]

Were all in it together - politicians

[pip1968 2,490]

is it in yet

[Qbgrey 4,114]

never go out with a loaded gun..........

[blackmaggie 3,376]

you need three things in life a good pair of boots a good bed or a good woman because if not in one your in one of the others

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

never go out with a loaded gun..........

cheers for the reminder ime away out in half a houre....

[BIGLURKS 874]

Lie and lie again never tell them the truth and keep everything too yourself

 

From The old poacher

[skycat 6,173]

The following four lines from If by Rudyard Kipling are the most pertinent in my opinion: I try to remember them when the going gets tough.

 

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

[tatsblisters 10,007]

Time dont stand still for no man

[tandors 888]

Going, going

 

I thought it would last my time -

The sense that, beyond the town,

There would always be fields and farms,

Where the village louts could climb

Such trees as were not cut down;

I knew there’d be false alarms

 

In the papers about old streets

And split level shopping, but some

Have always been left so far;

And when the old part retreats

As the bleak high-risers come

We can always escape in the car.

 

Things are tougher than we are, just

As earth will always respond

However we mess it about;

Chuck filth in the sea, if you must:

The tides will be clean beyond.

- But what do I feel now? Doubt?

 

Or age, simply? The crowd

Is young in the M1 cafe;

Their kids are screaming for more -

More houses, more parking allowed,

More caravan sites, more pay.

On the Business Page, a score

 

Of spectacled grins approve

Some takeover bid that entails

Five per cent profit (and ten

Per cent more in the estuaries): move

Your works to the unspoilt dales

(Grey area grants)! And when

 

You try to get near the sea

In summer . . .

It seems, just now,

To be happening so very fast;

Despite all the land left free

For the first time I feel somehow

That it isn’t going to last,

 

That before I snuff it, the whole

Boiling will be bricked in

Except for the tourist parts -

First slum of Europe: a role

It won’t be hard to win,

With a cast of crooks and tarts.

 

And that will be England gone,

The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,

The guildhalls, the carved choirs.

There’ll be books; it will linger on

In galleries; but all that remains

For us will be concrete and tyres.

 

Most things are never meant.

This won’t be, most likely; but greeds

And garbage are too thick-strewn

To be swept up now, or invent

Excuses that make them all needs.

I just think it will happen, soon.

 

Larkin

[Bosun11 537]

You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.

 

Stan Laurel