Douglas > Douglas's Quotes

“Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.”
― Virgil

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
― Tom Robbins

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
― Oliver James

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt