The Awesome Always: Funny Inspirational Quotes

Funny Inspirational Quotes Biography

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. In the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

2. Here is how you know if your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.

3. The most important thing is not to stop questioning.

4. Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

5. Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

6. "Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make."

7. "To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."-Michael Jordan

8. The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.

9. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

10. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

11. If you cannot repair the brakes on your car, make your horn louder.

12. "Where there's a will, there's a way. And where there's a way, there's usually a stop sign somewhere along the road."

13. Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.

14. " Look up for inspiration, down for concentration but don’t look side to side for information".

15. Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

16. Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.

17. Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.

18. Opportunity is always knocking. The problem is that most people have the self-doubt station in their head turned up way too loud to hear it.

19. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.

20. Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.

21. Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

22. Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else.

23. Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

24. Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

25. To find what you seek in life, leave no rock unturned.

26. Every artist was first an amateur.

27. The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

28. Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

29. No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

30. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

31. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. – Wayne Gretzky

32. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

33. Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

34. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

35. Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

36. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

37. Fortune favors the brave.

38. He who hesitates is lost.

39. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

40. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

41. Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

42. Believe you can and you're halfway there.

43. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

44. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

45. Great hopes make great men.

46. Hope for the best. Pray for the worst.

47. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

48. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

49. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

50. Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of successQuotes for training, personal development, and inspiration. Quotes provide helpful references and inspirational examples for business and life.

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funny paternity explanations - (allegedly) from Child Support Agency (CSA) forms

These comments (allegedly) were provided by mothers on CSA forms in response to the CSA request for details of children's fathers. Aside from being variously amusing and sad their own right some of these quotes illustrate the admirable spirit and humour that people can exhibit in the face of personal challenge, institutional bureaucracy and what some clearly regard as an invasion of privacy.

"..I don't know the identity of the father of my daughter. He drives a BMW that now has a hole made by my stiletto in one of the door panels. Perhaps you can contact the BMW dealers in the area to see if he's had it replaced.."

"..I have never had sex with a man. I am waiting for a letter from the Pope confirming that my son's conception was immaculate, and that he is Christ risen again.."

"..[XXX] is the father of child A. If you catch up with him can you ask him what he did with my AC/DC CD's?.."

"..I don't know the name of my child's father as all squaddies look the same to me, although I can confirm he was a Royal Green Jacket.."

"..I thought it was [XXX] because we definitely had sex at a time which fits with the birth of child A, but since discovering he is gay I am not so sure.."

"..Regarding the identity of the father of my twins, child A was fathered by [XXX]. I am unsure about child B but I believe he was conceived on the same night.."

"..It's difficult to remember because I was drunk on holiday in Tenerife, which was months before I got properly pregnant.."

"..I do not know the name of my daughter's father. She was conceived at a party on [date] at [venue] where I had unprotected sex with a man I met that night. I do remember that the sex was so good I fainted. If you manage to trace the father can you send me his phone number? Thanks.."

"..I remember buying the sperm at a boot market last spring but I never kept the documentation I'm afraid.."

"..I cannot tell you the name of child A's father as he informs me that to do so would blow his cover, and that this would have cataclysmic implications for the British economy. I am torn between doing right by you and right by my country. Please advise.."

"..From the dates it seems my daughter was conceived at EuroDisney. Maybe it really is the Magic Kingdom.."

"..Regarding the identity of child A's father, putting two and two together and considering the time of year, it must have been when Father Christmas came down the chimney.."

"..I do not know the identity of my baby's father. After all, when you eat a tin of beans you can't be sure which one made you fart.."

"..That night is a blur. The only thing I remember was watching a Delia Smith programme about eggs in the evening. If I had stayed in and watched more TV rather than going to the party, mine might have stayed unfertilised.."

"..He gave me a phone number which turned out to be one of his mates who said he'd been killed in a cement mixer accident. He was a builder and a bit stupid so I thought yes that sounds about right.."

(From various sources. If you have other quotes like these please send them.)

quotes - chinese wisdom

(Translations have been adapted for the modern age where appropriate.)

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." (attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"There is no greater happiness than freedom from worry, and there is no greater wealth than contentment." (attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"People's tendency towards good is as water's tendency is to flow downhill." (Mencius, Chinese philosopher, c.300BC)

"Eat less, taste more." (traditional Chinese proverb)

"Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up." (traditional Chinese proverb)

"The higher my rank, the more humbly I behave. The greater my power, the less I exercise it. The richer my wealth, the more I give away. Thus I avoid, respectively, envy and spite and misery." (Sun Shu Ao, Chinese minister from the Chu Kingdom, Zhou Dynasty, c.600BC)

"Success under a good leader is the people's success." (attributed to Lao Tsu, aka Lao Zi, legendary Chinese Taoist philosopher, supposed to have lived between 600-400BC)

"Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." (Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

"Softness overcomes hardness." (Zuo Qiuming, court writer of the State of Lu, and contemporary of Confucius, c.500BC)

"The greatest capability of superior people is that of helping other people to be virtuous." (Mencius, Chinese philosopher, c.300BC)

"A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others." (Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC)

"Failure is the mother of success." (traditional Chinese proverb)

"It is not wise for a blind man, riding a blind horse, to approach the edge of a deep pond." (traditional Chinese proverb)

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." (attributed to Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC, however the origins of this quote are arguably from the writing of the Chinese scholar Xunzi, 340-245 BC, for which clearer evidence seems to exist. The origin of the quote attributed to Confucius is not certain. The Xunzi quote - which is more subtle and complex, and literally translates as: "Not hearing is not as good as hearing, hearing is not as good as seeing, seeing is not as good as mentally knowing, mentally knowing is not as good as acting; true learning continues up to the point that action comes forth [or, only when a thing produces action can it be said to have been truly learned]" - can be traced to an original work, but it seems the Confucius version cannot. It is possible that the Western world simplified and attributed the quote to Confucius, being a popularly quoted source of Chinese wisdom. Thanks K Bennett.)

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool for ever." (traditional Chinese proverb)

"With a strong heart and a ready mind what have I to fear?" (Chu Yuan, aka Qu Yuan, Chinese politician-turned-poet, c.300BC - China's first great poet and considered the father of Chinese poetry, his death by drowning in 278BC is celebrated every year on the Day of Dragon Boat Festival).