Quotes that Impact You. (Explain Why)

Two quotes come to mind.. Cough Cough.
I lost my way in the world, and Ripped the world a new one getting back on the path-Rubien Peirson(my grandpa)
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I will never be a memory- Seporth from final fantasy advent children.

these quotes are what keep me moving and motivated to continue doing what i love.

Ever since i played a game called Eternal Sonata, Frederic Chopin has been my favorite pianist.

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on." -Frederic Chopin

If you worry about the problems you've had in your past, it will make dealing with similar problems in the future harder. Thats what i take the quote as meaning, anyhow. I find this to be quite true.

Where'd you find that quote? Don't mean to sound too demanding, but Chopin is also a fave of mine, and I've never seen that one.

Well, ive seen it in a few places. Ive seen it here, here, and here.

All of those say it is by Frederic Chopin.

Obviously I'm not that great of an internet sleuth, lol.

Thanks for sharing it, though.

Not a problem, lol. With Google, people can do anything. :D

"I had a dream, that white people, and black people.... and even Chinese people, can gamble together, without getting different chips"
Chris Tucker from Rush Hour 2

I find this quote very funny but also inspirational because to me, it describes me that everyone should have a fair game in life.

I take this quote very serious and to heart.

However there is one quote that is special to me.

My Dad said this and ever since then It changed me:
"We need to change and yes we can change"....

Sorry Obama, but my dad already took this quote before you did pal. ( LOL )

Here is my personal favorite one.

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" -Paarthurnax

When i heard that in Skyrim, i fell in love with it. There are a few more that i read by him as well that i liked. Also Patton, he gives some real good freakin advice. The power of ones voice can be amazing.

"And so quoth the raven, nevermore." - Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"

Nothing is forever. Everything is finite. Everything has an expiration date, and everybody will leave you in the end. No more friends. No more family. From ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

We came from nothing.

We return to nothing.

[size=10]Yes, I'm a redundant motherfucker.[/h]

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business: I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there’s room for everyone, and the good Earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say, “Do not despair.”

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die. And the power they took from the people will return to the people, and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate. The unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery. Fight for liberty.

In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written, “The kingdom of God is within man.” Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men. In you.

You the people have the power: the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power: Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie. They do not fulfill their promise. They never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

here is the video if you didn't want to read it


every time i get chills from hearing or reading this, im not ashamed to say there are very few things that im willing to fight for, politics, governments, and leaders do little to arouse that feeling of wanting to fight for a cause greater than myself, but this speech want me to get up and fight, i don't know who or what i would be fighting, or even whether i'd win, but it gets me feeling like going out and changing thing for the better.

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
- Orson Welles
There's not a day that goes by that I think back in my life that I don't think over this quote.

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
-Bruce Lee

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
-Bruce Lee

I can't tell you how many times I tried living up to the quotes above. It was only until I read these quotes years ago that it rang true. If everyone tried to live up to each others expectations, I don't think we would get very far.

"I fought the world I fought the time and the space withinside"

If I recall these lyrics were song by Cory Taylor of a Slipknot song.

I don't know why but this quote has stuck with me for a long time
I guess to signify some sort of accomplishment or concurring of ones goals.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler

Make me shiver every time.

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
— Wilhelm Stekel

And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove with his last ounce of courage,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To reach the unreachable Star!
—"The Impossible Dream"

My personal favorites. The last quote is part of a bigger poem but that last stanza was the one that really left an impact.

Yes thank you, but WHY? Read the OP and requirements for this thread. I'll let them stay this time, but next time if you don't state why, I'll delete your posts like the rest of the people who didn't state why.

On topic:
"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right." --Jane Goodall
I find this a poignant statement because it is (ideally) like the opposite of a double-edged sword. Often in human interaction we engage in debates (or indeed arguments) with others, with the goal of reaching a mutual understanding. Now on the surface this quote seems like (in a worst case scenario) you are pushing your ideas (or beliefs) upon another, but there's also a duality that I really like: It may be you yourself who has their mind changed. With civil and open-minded discussion, inconsistencies in your ideas, facts, or beliefs may appear -- and although you lose the argument, you gain much more in return: knowledge.

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs

This one hits me hard as it reminds me constantly of the limited time we have on an every day basis. Life is too short to live, and with so many things we want to do, there is actually so little of it we can do.

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche

I basically live by this principle. I feel like in life, you have to have a purpose you are aiming for, and when you have that goal in mind, there is nothing that should stop you, motivating you until you complete or accomplish it. No matter what is thrown at you, if you have a purpose, you will find a will.

It's evil to force your ideals and ideas to others.
Lelouch Lamperouge

this quote is somewhat i can relate. for some time now, i see those people who are just putting what they want
for the sake of what they want.
even if it mean using such underhanded methods to achieve it.

"There never really was a right or wrong answer. There can only be best or worst answers." - My business teacher.

While I was failing business class during mid-term, she said those words to me after I simply asked her how would I know if the answers I've written were right or wrong. Then something struck my head. My state of mind had always been memorising all details, methods, pros and cons from given notes and textbooks; and then writing them down on the questions that required those details as the answers. She said that I have good analytic skills, but poor reasoning and deduction skills. Which is unfortunately true. I could never give a strong reason to support the answers that I've written, nor could I give a very convincing opinion on some questions that required your own opinions on the situation given. I was also never able to balance the weight between the opportunities that my answers provide and the flaws the answers come with.

I was depressed for a few hours after that, but I then start looking for advices from my teacher and my friends who took the same class. In the end, I passed the class with a satisfactory mark, though I could've done better. But at least I changed my ways of answering these sorts of questions. I think I could've failed the class if she had never said those words in the first place.