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50 Best Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2012January 10, 2012 by

1. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now.” – Wallace Wattles

3. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

4. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering the attitudes of his mind.” – William James

5. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

6. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela

7. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” – Robert Frost

8. “You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” – John Addison

9. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

10. “An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.” – Wallace Wattles

11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen Covey

13. “The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

14. ”Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel Stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.” – Dara Henderson

16. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Vision without action is just a dream, action without vision just passes the time, vision with action can change the world” – Nelson Mandela

18. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

19. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

20. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose yours.” – Paulo Coelho

21. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy

22. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

23. “I have learned that it’s not WHAT I have in my life but WHO I have in my life that counts.” – Unknown

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

25. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci

27. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” – Goethe

28. “It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined” – Henry James

29. “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers

31. “Try not. Do or do not. There is no Try.” – Yoda (Star Wars!)

32. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” – William Wallace

33. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

34. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind” – Brian Tracy

35.“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn

37. “When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” – Estee Lauder

38. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

39. “The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.” – Tom Bodett

40. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

41. “The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

42. “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

43. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

44. “Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

45. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

46. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

47. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” – Michelangelo

48. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

49. “Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown

50. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

Mike Dirnt from Green Day Quotes

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

– “Sublime really annoys me, well the singer does. It’s ok to party, it’s ok to take drugs and have fun but don’t die! Don’t die! Party and go on but don’t die! That’s the rule. He died. We all party, but we don’t die.”
– “Punk is no longer a four-letter word. It’s a three-letter word now.”
– “All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”
– “Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.”
– “Green Day is like sex, when were good, were really good, when were bad … were still pretty damn good.”
– “Leave me alone. I’m just the bass player.”
– “You ain’t never gonna get satisfied, and once you’re there, you’ll be unsatisfied.”
– “Musicians make music, technicians make techno.”
– “If you haven’t travelled all over the United States or anything, you don’t have to because I did it for you. And it all looks like a hockey arena.”
– “I can’t figure out how to get on it.” – on Napster

– “We’re validating our insanity.”

– “I think we get hurt less than most people, if they lived like us.”

– “I kind of look at it as a percentage of how much stupid stuff we actually do.”

– “It’s too hard to mime and do the dance moves at the same time.” – on bands
that lip-sync during concerts

– “Selling out is compromising your musical intentions, and we don’t know how to do that.”

– “If you can say the word dookie you can keep in touch with the child within.”

– “If Canadians could vote in the states, maybe we wouldn’t have such a fucking stupid president.”

– “If my kid didn’t rebel, she wouldn’t be my kid.”

– “I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.”

– “It’ll sound pretty cocky, but I’m already in my favourite band.”

– “We’re not gazillionaires, but we’re pretty damn close!”

– “If you can make yourself a happy person, then you’re giving to the world.”

– “Don’t blame me for the explosion of punk rock. I didn’t know our music was going to get that big.”

– “Then all of a sudden we got introduced to punk music and it was the coolest fucking thing!”

– “A lot of shows on that tour had to be cancelled because the crowds got too big.” – 1994 tour

– “We grew up in Berkeley, which is the fucking methampheamine capital of California.”

– “I’ll always remember 1994 as the year that… ate shit.”

– “We personally believe that dogs are going to take over the world. And when they do, they’re gonna hit everyone with shit.”

– “I told Billie, let’s just take it as far as we can. Eventually we’ll lose all the money and everything else, anyway. Let’s just make sure we have one great big story at the end. I think we will. In a lot of ways we already do.”

– “Your just mad cuz you’re in the rain, well fuck you! I hope it rains so much you get stuck!”

– “If you’re wondering why I’m not wearing shoes.. it’s cuz one fell out of the van yesterday.. I’m not a fucking hippy!”

– “I was one of those kids who’d walk around the neighbourhood and talk to the adults and learn a lot. I’m good with people.”

– “Go in your older brother’s closet and learn something, man.”

– “I wanna see everyone. And everyone, and everyone.”

Star Wars Quotes #2

Posted on November 12, 2010November 11, 2010 by

“You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”
(Han Solo)

Greedo: [In Huttese; subtitled] Going somewhere, Solo?
Han Solo: Yes, Greedo. I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba I’ve got his money.
Greedo: It’s too late. You should have paid him when you had the chance. Jabba’s put a price on your head so large, every bounty hunter in the galaxy will be looking for you. I’m lucky I found you first.
Han Solo: Yeah, but this time I’ve got the money.
Greedo: If you give it to me, I might forget I found you. Han Solo: [stealthily going for his blaster] I don’t have it *with* me. Tell Jabba…
Greedo: Jabba’s through with you. He has no use for smugglers who drop their shipments at the first sign of an Imperial cruiser.
Han Solo: Even I get boarded sometimes. Do you think I had a choice?
Greedo: You can tell that to Jabba. He may only take your ship.
Han Solo: Over my dead body!
Greedo: That’s the idea… I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.
Han Solo: Yeah, I’ll bet you have.
[Han blasts Greedo, then heads out, tossing the bartender a coin]
Han Solo: Sorry about the mess.

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
(Darth Vader)

“I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.
(Darth Vader)

“It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than two meters.”
(Luke Skywalker)

“That’s no moon. It’s a space station.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
(Han Solo)

“Wonderful girl. Either I’m going to kill her or I’m beginning to like her.”
(Han Solo)

Han Solo: Look, Your Worshipfulness, let’s get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person: me.
Princess Leia: It’s a wonder you’re still alive.
[Pushing past Chewbacca]
Princess Leia: Will someone get this big walking carpet out of my way?
Han Solo: No reward is worth this.

“You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“The Force will be with you, always.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“Use the Force, Luke.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“Jabba, you’re a wonderful human being.”
(Han Solo)

Star Wars Quotes

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”

“May the Force be wih you.”

“I’m Luke Skywalker, I’m here to rescue you.”
(Luke Skywalker)

“I have you now!”
(Darth Vader)

“Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you’re my only hope.”
(Princess Leia)

“You’re all clear, kid! Now let’s blow this thing and go home!”
(Han Solo)

“Your father’s light saber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times… before the Empire.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

“I will come with you to Alderaan. There’s nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.”
(Luke Skywalker)

“You don’t need to see his identification … These aren’t the droids you’re looking for … He can go about his business … Move along.”
(Obi-Wan Kenobi)

b>C-3PO: Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1.
Han Solo: Never tell me the odds.

“You must unlearn what you have learned.”
(Yoda)

“The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.”
(Darth Vader)

[After cutting open his dead Tauntaun]”And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!”
(Han Solo)

“Do… or do not. There is no try.”
(Yoda)

[Using the Force, Yoda effortlessly frees the X-Wing from the bog]
Luke: I don’t, I don’t believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail.

“Impressive. Most impressive. Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.”
(Darth Vade)

Darth Vader: If you only knew the power of the Dark Side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Luke: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him!
Darth Vader: No. I am your father.

[as Luke leaves before completing his training]
Yoda: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.

[Leia and Han share a passionate kiss before Han is dragged towards the freezing chamber by the imperials]
Princess Leia: I love you.
Han Solo: I know.

[after choking Captain Needa to death]
Darth Vader: Apology accepted, Captain Needa.

“Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.”
(Darth Vader)

“Sir, I don’t know where your ship learned to communicate, but it has the most peculiar dialect.”
(C-3PO)

Darth Vader: You have learned much, young one.
Luke: You’ll find I’m full of surprises.

[After being tortured] I feel terrible.
(Han Solo)

Darth Vader: There will be a substantial reward for the one who finds the Millenium Falcon. You are free to use any methods necessary but I want them alive – no disintegrations!
Boba Fett: As you wish.

Luke: I’ll not leave you here. I’ve got to save you.
Anakin: You already have, Luke.

“Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way you can save your friends. Yes, your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for… sister. So, you have a twin sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side… then perhaps she will…”
(Darth Vader)

Moff Jerjerrod: The Emperor’s coming here?
Darth Vader: That is correct, Commander. And, he is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress.
Moff Jerjerrod: We shall double our efforts.
Darth Vader: I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am.

“Obi-Wan has taught you well.”
(Darth Vader)

“Boba Fett? Boba Fett? Where?”
[Han turns around and knocks Boba into the Sarlaac pit]
(Han Solo)

Han Solo: [flying across the deserts of Tatooine] I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big bright blur.
Luke: There’s nothing to see. I used to live here, you know.
Han Solo: You’re gonna die here, you know. Convenient.

Luke: Come with me.
Darth Vader: Obi-Wan once thought as you do. You don’t know the power of the Dark Side, I must obey my master.

Luke: Search your feelings, Father, you can’t do this. I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate.
Darth Vader: It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now.
Luke: Then my father is truly dead.

“And now, young Skywalker… you will die.”
(The Emperor)

Luke: Master Yoda, you can’t die.
Yoda: Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong.

“This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive.”
(Jabba the Hutt)

“It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity.”
(C-3PO)

Han Solo: I love you.
Princess Leia: I know.

C-3PO: His high exaltedness, the Great Jabba the Hutt, has decreed that you are to be terminated immediately.
Han Solo: Good, I hate long waits.
C-3PO: You will therefore be taken to the Dune Sea, and cast into the pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all-powerful Sarlaac.
Han Solo: Doesn’t sound so bad.
C-3PO: In his belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a thousand years.
Han Solo: On second thought, let’s pass on that, huh?

“Remember, a Jedi’s strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke… Luke… do not… do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor or suffer your father’s fate you will. Luke, when gone am I… the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke. There is… another… Sky… walker.” [Yoda dies]
(Yoda)

“I’m rather embarrassed, General Solo, but it appears that you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor.”
(C-3PO)

Han Solo: Together again, huh?
Wouldn’t miss it.
Han Solo: How we doin’? Luke: Same as always.
Han Solo: That bad, huh?