Dawg's Quotation Thread

[Dawg]

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone, 1866

 

[Dawg]

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

 

[MsTexas]

"Thou art to me a delicious torment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Dawg]

I think my child is a long way from here...

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

Sydney J Harris

 

[Dawg]

Now that I've finally realized I'm free, its time to be bold...

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

 

[Dawg]

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”

Richard Bach

 

[Dawg]

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.


Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch

 

[Dawg]

There comes a time when you know...
you can deny it all you want, but deep down inside you just know.
I've come to that point, and I don't think I can deny it anymore.
Question is, am I strong enough to follow through?

BullDawg

 

[Dawg]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases;
it will never Pass into nothingness.


John Keats

 

[Lorilei]

There comes a time when you know...
you can deny it all you want, but deep down inside you just know.
I've come to that point, and I don't think I can deny it anymore.
Question is, am I strong enough to follow through?

BullDawg

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

 

[emmy_christina]

A person cannot cling to anything unless she believes in it; belief always precedes action, therefore a person's deeds and life are the fruits of her belief.

Above Life's Turmoil

 

[emmy_christina]

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

 

[emmy_christina]

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

 

[Dawg]

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Thank you sweetheart, I appreciate you adding this quote to the thread.

 

[Dawg]

Hi Emmy... thanks for stopping by, and blessing us with those quotes, they're great. I hope you'll come by again.



Dawg

 

[Dawg]

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

 

[Dawg]

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Dawg]

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

Unknown

 

[Dawg]

One Of My All-Time Favorite Quotes

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.

Charles Swindoll

 

[Lorilei]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ~
Helen Keller

 

[de-valmont]

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Gore Vidal

 

[Morrigu]

“You haven't lost your smile at all, it's right under your nose. You just forgot it was there.”

 

[de-valmont]

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.


Gore Vidal

 

[Morrigu]

"The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."

Oscar Wilde

 

[de-valmont]

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

David Byrne