I never post here but I think this quote says it all...

"Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within".

- Steven H. Coogler

Anybody else has a quote they want to share...

PT 🙂

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't let your meat loaf - Letterman

I don't remember what man this quote is attributed to, but it made a big impression on me.

{my paraphrase} "The rational man accepts the world as he finds it and seeks a way to make a place for himself in it. The irrational man rejects the world as he finds it and seeks to mold and fashion it to his liking."

From my Father-

"I never want to hear of you starting a fight, but you had better always end them."

please excuse the southern slang

I can't imagine saying this any better.

the early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

“A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.” - Doyle Brunson

"Nobody is always a winner, and anybody who says he is, is either a liar or doesn't play poker." - Amarillo Slim

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius

"Doh" - Homer J Simpson

Here's one I found the other night while browsing Sartre in an opium daze after all the hookers had passed out: ""The only being which can be called free is the being which nihilates being ... nihilation is the lack of being ... freedom is precisely the being which makes itself a lack of being."

I certainly disagree with Sartre about a lot of things, but he's worth his share of zingers: "choice is possible, but what is not possible is not chosing ... if I do not choose, I am still choosing."

pull my finger...

AndyTv

That's fabulous Pablo, but we musn't overlook the acerbic Schopenhauer who, although dated now, was among the top minds of 18th century post-Hegelian Germany. For example: "The genitals are, far more than any other external member of the body, subject entirely to the will and not at all to knowledge: indeed the will shows itself almost as independent of knowledge here as it does in those parts which, responding merely to stimuli, serve to propogate vegetative life."

Or this curious passage: "I must recognize the inscrutable forces which manifest themselves in all natural bodies as identical in kind with that which in me is the will ... 🇸🇴 that if a stone which has been projected through the air had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own will. I add to this only that the stone would be right."

Nietzsche too had his moments, and likely represents more of the Germanic influences brought into America in the 19th century than that of the Puritan English before:

"In the end one loves one's desires and not what is desired."

"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."

"Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

"Madness is rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

Hard not to follow up Nietzsche's last quote with a gem from Jung: "A man is an intellect. 100 men a hydrocephalus."

???What!!!

"I can't believe I ate the whole thing"-Homer

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

April 23, 1910

While being told he was drunk and repulsive at a dinner party Sir Winston Churchill responed to the British Lady,

"yes madame I am drunk, and you are ugly,

when I awake in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly"!

Charlie

"Geronimooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

-Geronimo.

mmmm...beer

-homer

"Some people are like Slinkys. Not good for much, but brings a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs." - Unknown.

"Life is hard. Harder if you're stupid"- My Wife.