Quotes

I am always on the lookout for great quotes. Over the years I have amassed quite the collection. Below is a sample of some of my favorite ones.

CINEMA / TELEVISION

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Pocahontas

True power is not something that comes to those who seek it, it's something that finds those who deserve it.

Lunafreya Nox Fleuret

You think that if I don't have arms, I can't pray? A prayer comes from the heart.

Isaac Netero

You should enjoy the little detours in life. To the fullest. Because that's where you'll find the things more important than what you want.

Ging Freecs

An apology is a promise to do things differently next time, and to keep the promise.

Ging Freecs

Don't die until you die.

Gyro

Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can't remember.

Spirited Away

Forgive, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

Rafiki

See the world with eyes unclouded by hate.

Mononoke Hime

You cannot change fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.

Mononoke Hime

Never forget what you are, for the rest of world will not. Wear it like armour and it can never be used to hurt you.

Tyrion Lannister

MUSIC

There is nothing here, but what's here's mine.

Placebo

How we survive is what makes us who we are.

Rise Against

Too much blood has flown from the wrists of children shamed for those they choose to kiss.

Rise Against

VIDEO GAMES

Stand on the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters. Their silence is your answer.

Javik

So steel yourself and remember there can be no bravery, without madness.

Darkest Dungeon

Do not be sorry. Be better.

Kratos

No king rules forever, my son.

Terenas Menethil II

WRITERS

Not all those who wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

Ernest Hemingway

What lies before us and what lies behind us, are tiny matter as compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True nobility is not in being superior to your fellow man, but in being superior to your former self.

Ernest Hemingway

No good deed goes unpunished.

Oscar Wilde

You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

Stephen Covey

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Najwa Zebian

In idle wishes fools supinely stay; be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

George Crabbe

Show respect to people who don't even deserve it; not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.

Dave Willis

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Dr. Seuss

PHILOSOPHY

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Plato

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

No matter where you go, there you are.

Confucius

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Thomas Paine

Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μοι τῇ θύρᾳ.

Plato

OTHER

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Proverb

To whom much is given, much is expected.

Luke, 12:48

Memento mori.

Proverb

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

It is after midnight we remember the things we try our hardest to forget.

Unknown

Character is what you are in the dark.

Dwight L. Moody

God, please give me the courage to change what I can, the strength to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to tell them apart.

Serenity Prayer

The rich are those who dared.

Unknown

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Robert Breault

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

Unknown

Never attribute to malice what that is adequately explained by stupidity.

Aphorism

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

Yousuf Karsh

Do you want to be right, or do you want to learn?

Unknown

Manners maketh man.

William Horman

Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.

Proverb

Suum cuique.

Latin motto

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Will Rogers

In vino veritas.

Latin motto