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Was at the gym (see "Weight Loss Support") and my trainer trying to encourage me said "Remember you are doing more then anyone on the couch"

Thought maybe others could put their favorite quotes.
 
"I don't share the blame, I don't share the credit, and I don't share dessert."

Beverly Sills
 
"No matter where you go, there you are."

- Buckaroo Banzai
 
"Cheer up, there are worse days coming." - my grandfather, right after I mentioned how nervous I was just a couple minutes before I got married.
 
I'm not yelling at you, I yelling in front of you.
 
Be a true player, don't front on your folks.

-Too $hort
 
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking your potential.


Winston Churchill
 
If at first you don't succeed, you probably suck at it.

My drill instructor in the service.
 
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Attitude is the difference between adventure and ordeal.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will be frustrated for a lifetime
 
The past exists because we refuse to sit still.
The future exists because we must know more.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
 
At the door of my local Gold's gym, "Showing up is half the battle!"
My dad's favorite, "It'll quit that after a while." it pretty much applies to every situation from chest pains to a leaky roof. :eek:
 
In my signature line below, courtesy of the Most Interesting Man in the World (if he were to punch you in the face, you would have to fight off the strong urge to thank him; he can speak French, in Russian; even his enemies list him as their emergency contact) :wink2:
 
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"The plan never survives the war." - General George S. Patton

"D'Oh!" - Homer Simpson

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - Unknown

"This is your world. Shape it or someone else will." - Gary Lew
 
"Left handed people are the only ones who sit on the right side of the fork."
 
Gravity never loses; the best you can hope for is a draw.

-- Unknown pilot
 
"A man's weakness is not found in what he doesn't know but rather what he thinks he knows." - unknown
 
"Congratulations Mitt"

B. Hussien Obama November 6, 2012
 
"Don't worry. We've never left one up there."
CFI to first time student on discovery flight.
 
"Have a little faith baby. Have a little faith".

Oddball - "Kelly's Heroes"
 
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." - Mark Twain.

"A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is." - Mark Twain.

" A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. " - Mark Twain.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
 
Threefingeredjack said:
" A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip. " - Mark Twain.

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
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Heh. If you paraphrase Teddy's quote into: "I always get to do more cool crap than you do.", the Twain quote applies to Teddy's. ;)
 
"If he hadn't wanted them shorn he wouldn't have made them sheep."

Flight school owner discussing pre-paid deposits during staff meeting.
 
"This won't look good on the accident report." - A very ballsy guy I flew with when still a green youngster. He was sidling up to a rocky field of boulders at the base of a cliff on the Washington coast where two survivors of a sailboat were attempting to climb away from some really nasty surf. I was the quivering lump of protoplasm in the left seat trying to watch the instruments, the cliff, the waves, and keep my pants dry.
 
wabower said:
"If he hadn't wanted them shorn he wouldn't have made them sheep."

Flight school owner discussing pre-paid deposits during staff meeting.
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Ha. He must have watched Eli Wallach in "The Magnificent Seven" too many times.
 
Lots of raps on my sheet, but watching movies isn't one of them, especially more than once.
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Ha. He must have watched Eli Wallach in "The Magnificent Seven" too many times.
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
 
"There are three rules you must follow to make a perfect landing. Nobody knows what they are."
 
dell30rb said:
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will be frustrated for a lifetime
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Lots of great versions. I like, "Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer all day."

pbramlett said:
"Congratulations Mitt"

B. Hussien Obama November 6, 2012
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"Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock."
 
Voltaire obviously didn't spend much time in sales.

Jim Logajan said:
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
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“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."
----War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

"All that glitters is not glitz. And all that titters are not..."
---- W. Bower

“There's gotta be a way out of this dungeon."
---- G. Gygax


"One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people"
---- G. Khan

"Life is a series of rude awakenings"
---- R.V. Winkle


"-Or was it unlock the safe then swim to the surface?"
--- H. Houdini
 
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
 
AuntPeggy said:
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
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"No. Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Geena Davis in The Fly
 
"I don't give them hell, I just tell the truth about them and they think it's hell"
-Harry Truman
 
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