Sayings, quotes and anecdotes

[East Bay Rider]

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

Bob Marley

[cop414]

Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are.

[East Bay Rider]

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.

Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect. (1846-1912)

[East Bay Rider]

The only difference between being in a rut and being in a grave is the depth.

Christopher Hodapp

[jatco]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

The only difference between being in a rut and being in a grave is the depth.

Christophere Hodapp

Ouch.. but good point...!!

[cop414]

Originally Posted by jatco

Ouch.. but good point...!!

Here, here...

[cop414]

Paradise is where ever I'm at.

[East Bay Rider]

Hope is not a method.

Book title

[mannyv11]

This is one of my all time favorites from a mentor of mine who has long since passed away

"Kid, You have to learn to listen so that you can listen to learn"

Think about what he told me almost everyday he was truly a great man

[East Bay Rider]

Originally Posted by mannyv11

This is one of my all time favorites from a mentor of mine who has long since passed away

"Kid, You have to learn to listen so that you can listen to learn"

Think about what he told me almost everyday he was truly a great man

I truly believe that a mentor is the most important thing a young person can have to aid his development into a successful man.
Unfortunately there are few good men that will take the time, effort and interest to teach and groom young people in the ways of the world and help them make smart decisions and develop maturity.

[jatco]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

I truly believe that a mentor is the most important thing a young person can have to aid his development into a successful man.
Unfortunately there are few good men that will take the time, effort and interest to teach and groom young people in the ways of the world and help them make smart decisions and develop maturity.

...Very good point, and I concur, which, I may add, applies to women as well, which Im sure you meant to include.

[cop414]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

I truly believe that a mentor is the most important thing a young person can have to aid his development into a successful man.
Unfortunately there are few good men that will take the time, effort and interest to teach and groom young people in the ways of the world and help them make smart decisions and develop maturity.

Very, very well said Bill...

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

I truly believe that a mentor is the most important thing a young person can have to aid his development into a successful man.
Unfortunately there are few good men that will take the time, effort and interest to teach and groom young people in the ways of the world and help them make smart decisions and develop maturity.

Who's minding the kids?

[East Bay Rider]

Originally Posted by jatco

...Very good point, and I concur, which, I may add, applies to women as well, which Im sure you meant to include.

Yes, of course.

[subtona]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

Bob Marley

thanks for this one!
very apropos for my current events

[jatco]

Originally Posted by East Bay Rider

Yes, of course.

[cop414]

Love and trust are usually interchangeable. If you have one you have the other, if you loose one you probably loose the other.

[GradyPhilpott]

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[robertneville]

"if you are going to be on thin ice you might as well dance"

[East Bay Rider]

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson

[East Bay Rider]

The world will remember what you achieved, not what you attempted.

[jatco]

...Those who dont hear the music think the dancer is mad...! Nietzsche...(paraphrased...)

[cop414]

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

[jatco]

Originally Posted by cop414

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

"You cant always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need..." - Rolling Stones

[cop414]

Courage is mastery of fear not absence of fear.

[cop414]

Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

[orork]

Let no one say
And say it to your shame
That all was beauty here
Until you came

[GB-man]

All course of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

[cop414]

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

[cop414]

That which doesn't destroy us makes us stronger.