This section is about unusual or meaningful quotes I have heard over the course of time.

If you have any suggestions, let me know.  Enjoy!

Personal and Friends

The Holy Bible (NIV)

• "I am the resurrection and the life.  He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

   - Jesus Christ (John 11:25-26)

• "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."

   - Proverbs 14:12

• "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.  There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

   - Romans 3:22-24

• "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.  And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.  Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.  Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

   - Ephesians 4:29-32

• "Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

   - James 2:17

• "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.  What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?  For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done."

   - Matthew 16:24-27

• "Love is patient, love is kind.  It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails."

   - 1st Corinthians 13:4-8a

STAR WARS
• "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."

   - Yoda, Jedi Master
• "We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."

   - C-3PO
• "You know, sometimes I amaze even myself."

   - Han Solo
• "Twilight is upon me and soon night must fall. That is the way of things... the way of the Force."

   - Yoda
• "Why doesn't anyone listen to me?"

   - C-3PO
• "You must unlearn what you have learned."

   - Yoda
• "You certainly have a way with people."

   - Princess Leia Organa
• "I do believe that they think I am some sort of god."

   - C-3PO (referring to the Ewoks)
• "Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter."

   - Yoda
• "I'm responsible these days. It's the price you pay for being successful."

   - Lando Calrissian
• "Wars not make one great."

   - Yoda
• "The Force will be with you... always."

   - Obi-Wan Kenobi

Inspirational

• "Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

   - Henry Ford

• "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."

   - G. K. Chesterton

• "Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done."

   - Louis D. Brandeis

• "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

   - Eleanor Roosevelt

•  "Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes."

   - Oscar Wilde

• "In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

   - Jimmy Carter

Miscellaneous
• "Do what you can with what you have where you are."

   - Theodore Roosevelt

• "Men are like a fine wine.  They start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with."

   - Dave Berry

• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

   - Albert Einstein

• "It is common sense to take a method and try it.  If it fails, admit it freely and try another.  But above all try something."

   - Franklin D. Roosevelt
• "Hard pounding this, gentlemen. Let's see who will pound longest."

   - The Duke of Wellington

•  "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has."

   - Confucius
• "What is a friend? One soul dwelling in two bodies."

   - Aristotle
• "The unexamined life is not worth living."

   - Socrates
• "Stick to the basics, hold on to your friends and family - they will never go out of fashion."

   - Niki Taylor
• "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

   - Dan Quayle

• "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

   - Donald Rumsfeld

•  Strength does not come from physical capacity.  It comes from an indomitable will."

   - Mahatma Gandhi

•  "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."

   - Benjamin Franklin

• "The important thing is this: that we should be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

   - Charles DuBos
• "Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war."

   - William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

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