Collect quotes and sayings.

The trouble with real life is that there is no danger music.
- The Cable Guy

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
- Vanilla Sky

“Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive”
- National Lampoon’s Van Wilder

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me. But it’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once…and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember… to relax, and not try to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain. And I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. You have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m sure. Don’t worry… you will someday. – American Beauty

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
-Finding Nemo

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
-The Notebook

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone to make us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, someone perfect is searching for us.
- The Wonder Years

We are who we choose to be.
-Green Goblin

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? I say fall head over heels. Find someone you love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.”
-Meet Joe Black

Just taaaap it in, just taaap it in, give it a little tappy, tap, tap, taparoo.
-Happy Gillmore

Sometimes the simplest idea can make the biggest difference.
-Pay It Forward

What is life, without the pursuit of a dream?
-Vanilla Sky

Your future isn’t written, no one’s is. You can make it whatever you want…so make it a good one!!
-Back to the Future

I dream of a better tomorrow… where chickens can cross roads and not have their motives questioned
- Unknown

What if the hokey pokey really is what it’s all about?
- Unknown

Are you always this stupid, or are you making a special effort today?
- Unkown

Screws just fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
-John Bender in the Breakfast Club

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” -Earl Nightingale

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
–Pope John XXIII

“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

“Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” -William Durant

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can’t be accomplished.” -Napoleon Hill

“You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.” -Anthony Robbins

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” -Louis E. Boone

“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.” -Richard M DeVos

“The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.” -Brian Tracy

“Keys to success… Research your idea, Plan for success, Expect success, & just plain do it! It amazes me how many people skip the last step! Practice being a “doer” and success will follow you every step of the way!” -Josh S. Hinds

Empower yourself, and become the person you dream about.” -Unknown

“There is no try. Do, or do not do.” –Yoda, Star Wars

“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” -Carl W. Buechner

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore.” -Dale Carnegie

“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized—never knowing.” -Jim Rohn

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
-Norman Vincent Peale

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so Long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” -Alexander Graham Bell

“In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.” -Brian Tracy

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” -Helen Keller

“Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.” -Brian Tracy

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

“Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.”
- From A League of Their Own
_{I really like this one!}

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”-Henry Ford

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” -Bernard Edmonds

“Never, never, never, never give up.” -Winston Churchill
_{This is also another fave!}

“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
-Earl of Chesterfield

“There are those of us who are always about to live. We are waiting until things change, until there is more time, until we are less tired, until we get a promotion, until we settle down—until, until, until. It always seems as if there is some major event that must occur in our lives before we begin living.” – George Sheehan

Never tell your problems to anyone…20% don’t care and the other 80% are glad you have them.
-Lou Holtz

Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
-Randall G Leighton

We write to create a world in which we can live, to heighten our awareness of life, to live and enchant and console others, to serenade our lovers…and to transcend out life. -Anais Nin

Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. -William Faulkner

Good writing is clear thinking made visible. -Bill Wheeler

I’m not sure what this one has to do with writing, but it was in there anyway…

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. -Joan Welsh

Don’t worry, be happy. – Bobby McFarrin

You don’t always have to have something to say. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

Instead of wallowing in misery, I just made some changes.
- Stephanie Mills

God makes three requests of his children: So the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now. – African-American folklore

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. – Jackie “Moms” Mabley

Where the mind goes, the behind follows. – Randolph Wilkerson

As long as you can find someone else to blame for anything you are doing, you cannot be held accountable or responsible for your growth or the lack of it. – Sun Bear

The bumblebee’s wings are so thin and its body so big, it should not be able to fly. The only porblem is, the bee doesn’t know that. – David Lindsey

You must do your own independent investigation of truth.
- Baha’i teachings

If you are on a road to nowhere, find another road.
- Ashanti proverb

Most people think they know the answer. I am willing to admit I don’t even know the question. – Arsenio Hall

The main point of the game of life is to have fun. We are afraid to have fun beacuse somehow that makes life too easy.
- Sammy Davis, Jr.

If you love ‘em in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love ‘em at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love. – Miles Davis

If a job isn’t worth dreaming about, it isn’t worth having.
-Deborah Gregory

Are you one of the human beings who knows there is more to being human than paying bills and not paying bills?
- Rev. Fredrick Price

Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.
- Dr. Johnnie Coleman

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. – Robert H. Schuller

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
- Anthony Robbins

Fearlessness happens when you are not motivated by safety but are driven by passion. – not quite sure

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me.”
- Erma Bombeck

Let this be my motivation.

“You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes well you just might find
You get what you need…”
- The Rolling Stones

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

...motivates, inspires, reveals something. I’ve read a lot of quotes in my time. I really do enjoy them…they make me feel all warm and cuddly inside! Recently I’ve really been enjoying the side quotes on 43t…there are some really great ones on here! I’ve got a little collection that I usually post on my peg board…some I’ve found, some I’ve wrote…and most surface my thoughts when I need to be reminded of them.

“I take care of myself because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who’s responsible for me.” – Halle Berry

“Maybe I’m not 80 pounds, but I have muscle and can run a marathon.” – Sarah Michelle Geller
_{This one is especially useful on those days at the gym when I’m feeling a little bad about myself}

“Life is too short. Go after it. What’s the worst thing? So you didn’t make it. Oh well. Just try again, do something else.” – Melina Kanakaredes
_{This one has helped me through some insecure moments…I remind myself of it a lot!}

“I wake in the early morning only to think of you, and sleep through solitary nights only to dream of you.” -me

“Success is the art of being who you are.” – ??

“May the world we leave our children be a better one than was left to us.” – Native American Philosophy