Quotes that Impact You. (Explain Why)

So I was talking with a friend and we got into a debate about great leaders in history and it some how broke down into a qoute battle. I was thinking that quotes have an incredible impact on people and sometimes are what rally people together.

So I was wondering if people have quotes that stay with them and why they do?

Mine is "One deaths a tradgey, a millions just a statistic"
-Joseph Stalin

This quote has always stayed with me ever since I heard it. It's so shocking because its so true. When someone dies in a family or close town.... that deaths focaused on and is gathered together around with broken hearts and crying people. But when you talk about the holocaust or the Rwandan Genocide it's all numbers and satistics not individual tragedies.

[Edit] I just thought that I should include the one my friend threw at me. But it's a letter not really a qoute but here.
I don't think I could even start.

wow. that's an interesting concept/quote. i never really looked at it that way. now that i think about it, it's true. imma gonna bring this quote to mai former National Issues teacher. he's the most knowledgeable person i know. i'd like to hear his thoughts about this :?

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” - George Orwell

I find that people really under-appreciate the armed forces.

(In response to a question of why something performed a specific action)
---- For no more a reason than to see you smile.

I loved this quote. In this age where people expect ridiculous levels of compensation to perform even the most menial of tasks, this quote reminds me of the right reasons that people help each other.


I might have taken it out of context, (I don't remember where it came from, but odds are it's a reply to suck up to someone they love) but I don't care. I like my interpretation of it >.<

I gotta say, the quote that hits me the hardest is

"I dont like what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" -Evelyn Beatrice Hall

that quote is often misquoted to Voltaire, but it was actually written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote his biography and was trying to describe the way he thought in one sentence. Rather like the "Let them eat cake" thing.

Regardless, this quote always sends chills down my spine when I hear it. Its such a amazing thing to say, let alone live by. So many people die and fight over differences in opinion, so many people persicute over separate idea's, but to live by this principle, to say "I dont agree with you, but you deserve to say it", its amazing. Your showing open minded-ness AND supporting human rights, your ability to say what you want without repercussion...

thanks

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."
Jim Morrison

I really hate "friends" and family who try to change who you are, just so they can be satisfied. And that's all it ever really is; if a person wants you to change, it's never for your own benefit. It's because they believe that they would be happier if you changed.

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."
Jim Morrison

'Nuff said.

I'll never forget these quotes they've always kept me focused.

"If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail"-Mark Spitz

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it"-Pablo Picasso

"There are very few problems which cannot be solved through the proper application of high-end explosives."

This quote has been with me at all times

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

It is a fitting example of wherein one man with a firm resolve loses it in confusion

"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization." - Charles Lindbergh

hmm...maybe it's this.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-Albert Einstein-

because i'm trying to free myself from prejudices....

"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
-Muhammed Ali

"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. "
-Adolph Hitler

"This world, I think we like it."
-Makoto Shinkai, from "She and Her Cat"

''It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles.'' Niccolò Machiavelli.

The total war series has alot of these awesome ''war'' quotes, think I've never enjoyed an loading screen that much.

But my absolute favorite one has to be:

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." George Patton

"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves." - Bonaro W. Overstreet

"Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures. Remember, when someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and bitch-slap the motherfucker upside the head." - Unknown

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be."
-Fannie Brice

"All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

You people should try looking around you and pay attention to others to see this in action.

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it." - George Carlin

That pretty much describes all authority that you see everywhere.

"Let your game speak"

"You miss 100% of shots that you don't take"

"Never try and argue with an idiot, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience"

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."


Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat". —Theodore Roosevelt

"Hitler did not see an evil man in the mirror". -Terroja Kincaid

Some of my favorites. I had a HUGE list of my favorite quotes, but I lost it....

Hahahaaha the only quotes that remain in myself is only one thing....
that quote is fortunately(or unfortunately) made me able to stand when I`m already having a very great depresion mode (like... ah I`m the weakest and the lowest man in the world)
That quote is "I don`t care what it takes... i`ll get what I want no matter what!" from the moron protagonist of He is my master anime.... that makes me laugh seeing myself, still better than him but already get a despression like its all the end of the world.....
Sometimes a mere rambling of someone can just save u and I agree with it :twisted: