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  1. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    Nobody cares if you cant dance well; just get up and dance

    heres where squeak makes a Nobody comment ;)

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. anonymisss
    Member

    kapusta, is this related to the other thread?

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. mepal
    Member

    A woman is like a teabag. You don't know how strong she is until she's in hot water.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    anonymisss, which thread?

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. anonymisss
    Member

    kapusta, about the dancing?

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    anonymisss, it wasn't supposed to be until you mentioned it. Its funny it came up at the same time.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. TRY LISTENING TO THE BACKSEAT DRIVER FOR ONCE.

    CAPS should be used only when required. YW Moderator-72

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. yros
    Member

    "You Don't Make Friends, Friends Make You."

    -Sam Bienenstock-

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. moish01:
    "If you hear a smoke alarm ringing there are two ways how to quiet it: either you remove the batteries or you extinguish the fire."

    that is really thought provoking and inspiring (sounds like a moshol someone would use in a speech)- thank you for sharing!!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. aussieboy
    Member

    "A woman always has the last word in an argument. If the man continues it is the beginning of another argument"

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. mepal
    Member

    "The difference between hope and dispair is a good night of sleep"

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    Build bridges; not walls.

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. mroosinsehry
    Blocked

    kapusta, i disagree

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. an open book
    Member

    mepal: so true!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. aussieboy
    Member

    kapusta: If you want a place to live build walls (with a roof) and if you want to cross a river build a bridge. It is completly dependant on the situation. ;)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    aussie, lol, yes, and if you would be hungry, make some food ;)

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. YW Moderator-72
    Retired Moderator

    one of my favorite quotes about making the best out of situation:

    when life hands you cabbage, make coleslaw

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. an open book
    Member

    oh is that what happened to kapusta? wish she was here...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. mroosinsehry
    Blocked

    "If you say that money doesn't buy happiness, you don't know where to shop!!!"

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. Jax
    Member

    72: ha i'm laughin so hard! post of the year?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    72, you are asking for a nose joke, I'll be nice though

    AOB, whats wrong? anything I can help you with or you were just having withdrawal symptoms from your good friend?

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. an open book
    Member

    ok this is getting a little crazy - we won't be able to get through all of them, let alone vote on one if every third post is nominated.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. Jax
    Member

    an open book: we'll be sifting thru 88 pages of great post!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. Jax
    Member

    Creativity means believing you have greatness!
    - Dr. Wayne Dyer

    Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
    -- Erica Jong

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. Jax
    Member

    You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
    -- George Horace Lorimer

    Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    -- Bonnie Blair

    Anyone can turn on a small light in a dark room. Anyone!
    -- Erin Gruwell

    Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
    -- Knute Rockne

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. Jax
    Member

    The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
    -- Harold Taylor

    Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.
    -- Wilma Askinas

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. Jax
    Member

    When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
    -- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

    Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
    -- Lance Armstrong

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. an open book
    Member

    kapusta: withdrawal symptoms?? i'm not addicted to you, i just missed you. it was too quiet around here ;) but thanks for asking

    jax: yeah i guess

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. Jax those are superb, I read them twice. These 2 are my favorite:

    Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    -- Bonnie Blair

    When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
    -- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. (not inspiring but true)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  31. I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!
    Woody Allen

    One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to
    marry your daughter can
    be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
    Jewish Proverb

    Posted 6 years ago #
  32. Jax
    Member

    areivim: glad you liked them!
    now this is a good one-->
    If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. (not inspiring but true)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  33. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    Jax, those were excellent!

    areivim, I love the second one!

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #
  34. moish01
    Member

    "Everything you say has to be true, but not everything that's true do you have to say."

    - a really cool rabbi

    (i don't know if he got it from somewhere though)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  35. Jax
    Member

    moish: nice one there! there are some cool rabbis out there!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  36. moish01
    Member

    ha yeah. he would laugh so hard if he knew that i listen to what he says...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  37. anonymisss
    Member

    sweet, moish! sounds like ya found a really cool rabbi there.

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  38. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    moish, nice quote. I never thought I'd see the words cool rabbi in a comment from you.

    *kapusta*

    any more?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  39. moish01
    Member

    yikes... i really sound that bad?? of course there are some really cool rabbis. not the ones standing in a classroom, but these are RABBIS not REBBES. (though if i dig deep enough i'm sure i can find a couple of cool rebbes too...)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  40. im a computer-quote fan:

    "If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?"

    "What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator."

    "Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"

    "Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad."

    "If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."

    Posted 6 years ago #
  41. "Winners never quit; quitters never win." --thats somewhere in Yankee Stadium

    "Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

    "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." -JFK

    "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -JFK

    "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -FDR

    "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." -Indira Gandhi

    "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." --Indira Gandhi

    "He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny

    "Some cause happiness wherever they go; some whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde

    "'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus (min hakoach el hapoel...)

    "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that dont work." -Thomas A. Edison

    "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Ben Franklin

    "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work, and those who get the credit. Try to be in the first group; theres less competition there."

    "A boy doesnt have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesnt like pie when he sees there isnt enough to go around." -Edward W. Howe

    "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the conflict." -Thomas Paine

    "It require wisdom to understand wisdom. The music is nothing if the audience is deaf." -Walter Lippman

    "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." -Jean Paul

    "you can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his answers." -Mahfouz Naguib

    "An exoert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until eventually, he knows everything about nothing." -Anon

    "Challenges are make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

    "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

    "there is still no cure for the common birthday." -John Glenn

    "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." -Thomas Fuller

    "Experience is not what happens to you; its what you do with what happens to you." -Aldous Huxley

    "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people are clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." -Walter kerr

    "Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open." -Lord Thomas Dewar

    "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. its the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." -Lilt Tomlin

    "The pure ans simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde

    "When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." -Walter Lippman

    "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says 'Go!' a leader says 'Let's go!'" -E.M. Kelly

    Posted 6 years ago #
  42. aussieboy
    Member

    BYM: Haha I like that last one the most :)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  43. anonymisss
    Member

    moish, difference being...?

    ~a~

    Posted 6 years ago #
  44. aussieboy
    Member

    "If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing."

    That one :)

    Wheres the one about how there are 300 million people in the US and only 2 are working me and you and your sitting on your computer reading this joke?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  45. Jax
    Member

    ''Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much!''- Blaise Pascal

    Posted 6 years ago #
  46. mroosinsehry
    Blocked

    jax: If people would use that line the world would be a much better place to live in!

    "Keep On Smiling To Make The World A Happier Place"

    Posted 6 years ago #
  47. YW Moderator-72
    Retired Moderator

    A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married.
    H. L. Mencken

    Posted 6 years ago #
  48. mroosinsehry
    Blocked

    mod72: i don't quite chop that one

    Posted 6 years ago #
  49. an open book
    Member

    "Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"

    reminds me of General Schmooze.

    mroosinsehry: his wife will make sure he knows.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  50. kapusta
    CR Queen - “Best of luck. Avoid roasted cabbage, don’t eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!”

    Once a man is married he can forget his mistakes. No use in two people remembering the same thing.

    BYM, great ones!

    *kapusta*

    Posted 6 years ago #

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