Inspiring Quotes

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**Arheiner**

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel."=Stuart Pearce

"Tactics only work when your TH/SS termies with Kantor don't run off the board first turn,"-Me to my last opponent

Got a few more, maybe when I can remember tomorrow.

**LunaHound**

From my father:

"Never be naive , never trust anyone. The more power you have the more enemies you will have waiting for every opportunity to bring you down."
"But you like trusting others? well grow up faster! "

**Centurion**

Nothing is so simple that it can't get screwed up.

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

And the one I live by: Carpe manana

Centurion.

**malfred**

Two. One is from Keanu Reeves in a movie.

"Woah."

Not really that one! Here it is.

"Pain heals, Chicks dig scars... Glory lasts forever."

I don't really live by it, but I try to remember it. I'm very risk averse, you see, so it's
difficult for me to take chances on things.

Here's the quote I leave in my email sigs, and therefore I read it every day:

"You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along."
-Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson, if you remember, was the cartoonist of Calvin and Hobbes. His words
I try to remember always.

**LEEQAEX**

Any manson lyrics. A lot fo them are pretty relivent . Liek your just a copy of an imatation ect. I dont really live by any though ,or by anything properly which people do or say. As Nietzche said put a question mark next to everything you belive in . I take that to mean see everything for what it is.
One quote I think I would have to take inspiration from is the one in my signature , the do not battle the monster ect. I take that for myself to mean there are those out there who will annoy you or go against you . You shouldnt stoop to thier level and be angry , just live your life becuaseit has nothing to do with them.

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There are some really epic ones from beyond good and evil .

**Mannahnin**

Moved to off-topic.

This thread has potential in Dakka Discussions, or in WH or 40k Discussions if someone wanted to start a discussion about quotes specifically relating to the game, or inspiring for their game play. That’s what I first thought it would be. I have a couple of great quotes from Paradise Lost and from Soldier, Ask Not that inspire me for my Fallen and Dark Angels armies.

**VikingScott**

Sorry.
I thought discussions was more appriote than off-topic.

anyway one i like is:
He who seeks peace must prepare for war.

I don't know who said it but i really like it.

**Soladrin**

"there ain't no party like an alcoholic party"

Some crap song xD

**Gitzbitah**

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine."
Song of Solomon

"Without love, our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning

"To fall is not to fail, you fail when you don't try"
Superchic[k]

**sebster**

"God will gak on your plans."
I think it's a Polish saying.

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck.

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

I have three, two that inspire me to write, the other as it sums up a key part of history for me.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. - Walt Disney

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. - Gary Gygax

I cherish the memory of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said: 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said, "No. But I served in a company of heroes." - Sergeant Myron 'Mike' Ranney, easy, 101st Airborne

**M_Stress**

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomtable will"
-Gandhi

Actually, that guy have a bunch a amazing quote.

I also like another in the same line of though:

"People do not lack strength, thay lack will"

**Anshal**

Here are some of mine
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell

- I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?" Eve Merriam

- “Great men are not always wise”

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

“I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes; if you feth with me, I'll kill you all.” - US Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders

“If you don’t live for something, you die for nothing.” – George Patton

“In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.” - Erwin Rommel

“To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.” - Douglas MacArthur

“When placed in command - take charge.” - Norman Schwarzkopf

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard--
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
-Rudyard Kipling

**Slarg232**

If you do not read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

I have a Randezous with Death
at some disputed barracade.
It may be he shall take my hand
and lead me into his dark land.
I have a randezous with Death,
and I to my plachid word am true
I shall not fail that randezous.

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

Oh yes, how could I forget:

"I kicked burning terrorist so hard in the balls that I tore a tendon in my foot"
-Headline in the Daily Record after the Glasgow attack.

**Lord Bingo**

Better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep. - not sure of the author

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King Jr

**chub**

The only quote that has ever stuck with me is the piece of poetry from GI Jane, (sorry if itsnt completely correct)

I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself,
a bird would drop dead from its bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself

I think the meaning is pretty clear and worth living by

failing that my other fave is

"Zulus thousands of them"

**Golden Eyed Scout**

I like the one I have in my sig.

**PukeNut**

I have a couple in my sig.

**MagickalMemories**

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun."
-Billy Joel (Only the good die young)

"What you do unto the least of these, you also do unto me."
-Bible

"What does it profit a man to gain the world but lose his soul?"
-Bible

**malfred**

chub wrote:

I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself,
a bird would drop dead from its bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself

DH Lawrence

**Leigen_Zero**

I have a few I am pretty fond of, including one that I have recently created that I would like to be remembered for:

All good things have an end, except for a sausage which has two!
-13th century norse proverb (found in a sig on dakka actually)

A wizard who is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner is tired of life.
-one of the wizards in 'the colour of magic' by terry pratchett

I'm about as hard-core as a deep-friend cadbury's creme egg
-moi

Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
-unknown business tycoon.

**Shadowbrand**

"i think its a big turn on to walk down the street and kick little kids"

Varg Vikerenes.

**dogma**

"Life is a school of probability." - Walter Bagehot

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so," - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle via Sherlock Holmes

"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong." - Saul Kripke

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If you can't win, change the game." - Don't remember, though I say this a lot when talking to despondent peers.

**Gwar!**

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Siddhārtha Gautama

**Koski**

George Bernard Shaw: "Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask "why not"

Also good old God Emperor loving

"There is no such thing as innocence, only varying degrees of guilt."

From the reincarnation of the Tibetan Lama "Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings." Its very un-40k esque but it's the best piece of advice in general. I always remember it when I'm driving, because calm, safe, intelligent drivers en masse work much more efficiently than donkey-caves who weave in and out of lanes and fight for front lane.

**malfred**

dogma wrote:

"If you can't win, change the game." - Don't remember, though I say this a lot when talking to despondent peers.

Sounds a lot like:

Saavik: Admiral, may I ask you a question?
Kirk: What's on your mind, Lieutenant?
Saavik: The Kobayashi Maru, sir.
Kirk: Are you asking me if we're playing out that scenario now?
Saavik: On the test, sir... will you tell me what you did? I would really like to know.
McCoy: Lieutenant, you are looking at the only Starfleet cadet who ever beat the no-win scenario.
Saavik: How?
Kirk: I reprogrammed the simulation so it was possible to rescue the ship.
Saavik: What?
David Marcus: He cheated.
Kirk: I changed the conditions of the test; got a commendation for original thinking. I don't like to lose.
Saavik: Then you never faced that situation... faced death.
Kirk: I don't believe in the no-win scenario.

**dogma**

Yes, yes it does. I may have just sumarized that exchange unconsciously, but I seem to have a memory of a specific source. I just can't recall it. I keep thinking that its Wall Street for some reason, but that seems wrong.

**Koski**

"A dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lays awake at night wondering if there's a dog."