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Think about it!

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

When you stop chasing the wrong things in life, you give the right things a chance to catch up with you.

Then maybe you’ll realise what’s really important.

Think about it.

45 Inspiring Quotes, Adventure Quotes and Life Quotes

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

1. “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Author Unknown

2. “I put all my genius into my life. I put only my talent into my work.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.”-Paris Hilton

4. “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.” –Eminem

6. “I don’t want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.” –Laird Hamilton

7. “As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?” –Charlie Sheen

8. “I don’t have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”-Anthony Bourdain

9. “When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” –Rumi

10. “The map is not the territory.” – Alfred Korzybski

11. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” –Author Unknown

12. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”-Clint Eastwood

13. “Actions speak louder than words.”-Theodore Roosevelt

14. “Adventure is worthwhile.” –Amelia Earhart

15. “Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?” – Sun Tzu

16. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”-David Grayson

17. “Chance is the providence of adventurers.”-Napoleon Bonaparte

18. “If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” –Voltaire

19. “Go ahead. Be invincible!” –Author Unknown

20. “When life gives you lemons, paint that shit gold.” –Atomosphere

21. “All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back.” –Avatar

22. “Drop it like it’s hot.” –Snoop Dogg

23. “The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”-Germaine Greer

24. “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” –Leonardo Di Vinci

25. “If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti

26. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” –Andy Warhol

27. “Hate it or love it, the underdogs come out on top.” – 50 Cent

28. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” –Unknown Author

29. “Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled.” –Mohammed

30. “Have less. Do more. Be more.” –Author Unknown

31. “The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind.” – Author Unknown

32. “Wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”-Neil Armstrong

33. “Just do it.”-Nike Slogan

34. “Our truest life is when we are awake in our dreams.” –Author Unknown

35. “Be all that you can be.” –U.S. Army Slogan

36. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

37. “God did not annihilate His son on the cross so that you could live like hell.” –Author Unknown

38. “A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” –Muhhamed Ali

39. “If you risk nothing you gain nothing.” –Bear Grylls

40. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” –Tupac Shakur

41. “Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.” –Avatar

42. “Proof is in the pudding.” –Author Unknown

43. “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.”-Clint Eastwood

44. “I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. Do you?” –Charlie Sheen

45. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” –Kanye West

30 Inspiring, Adventure and Life Quotes

Posted on July 22, 2012July 23, 2012 by

1. “Nothing is really ‘safe’.” –Bam Margera

2. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

3. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”-Alan Sachs

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

5. “Security is mostly a superstition.”-Helen Keller

6. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” –W.M. Lewis

7. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”-George Eliot

8. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” –Audrey Hepburn

9. “Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”-Yogi Berra

10. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. “-Lady Gaga

11. “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.”-Joseph Campell

12. “…adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” –Unknown Author

13. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” –Michael Jackson

14. “If at first you don’t succeed so much for skydiving.” –Ninja Turtles

15. “If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.“-Samuel L. Jackson

16. “Embrace yourself for who you are…and then go jump off a cliff in a squirrel suit.”-Author Unknown

17. “What happens in Vegas, I’m telling everyone.” –Dane Cook

18. “You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”-George Lucas

19. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”-Samuel Beckett

20. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”-Pearl S. Buck

21. “Don’t react. Live.” –Author Unknown

22. “Fortes fortuna adiuvat. (Fortune favors the brave).”-Author Unknown

23. “In the wake of yawning decadence, fearless Thou shalt be!” – Anonymous Poem

24. “People are creating the future, right now. What are you doing?”-Warren Kimmel

25. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” –Author Unknown

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

27. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”-T.S. Elliot

28. “My life is my message.”-Ghandi

29. “Make your life a mission – not an intermission.” –Author Unknown

30. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.” – Deepak Chopra

20 Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

2. Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner

4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb

12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what
you want most. —Unknown Author

17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

20 Humor Quotes

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

1. If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. —Joe Martin

2. Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. —Ambrose Bierce

3. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Noel Coward

4. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. —Will Rogers

5. You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. —George Burns

6. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. —Groucho Marx

7. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.—Groucho Marx

8. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. —Sam Levenson

9. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. —Unknown Author

10. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin

11. The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. —David Richerby

12. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. —Garry Shandling

13. I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. —Jack Benny

14. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin

15. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. —Mel Brooks

16. If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. —Ted Turner

17. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. —Henny Youngman

18. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx

19. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. —Douglas Hofstadter

20. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. —Franklin P. Jones

20 Interesting Quotes

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

1. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein

2. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Erz

3. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —Pablo Picasso

4. A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate

5. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. —Don Herold

6. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler

7. The little I know I owe to my ignorance. —Orville Mars

8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw

9. In God we trust; all others bring data. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming

10. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. —Mark Twain

11. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain

12. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

13. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock

14. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. —Albert Einstein

15. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —Niels Bohr

17. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them. —Unknown Author

18. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

19. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

20. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer

Blame Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on January 2, 2012January 3, 2012 by

Blame is a lazy man’s wages. – Danish Proverb

A man may fall many times but he won’t be a failure until he says someone pushed him. – Elmer G. Letterman

Fix the problem, not the blame. – Catherine Pulsifer

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope

Don’t make excuses… make good. – Elbert Hubbard

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Unknown Author

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. – Plutarch

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. – Wayne Dyer

I praise loudly, I blame softly. – Catherine II of Russia

Wisdom and Inspirational Quotes

Posted on August 28, 2011 by