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Position:Home>Books & Authors> What's the most influential quote you've ever heard or read?Question: What's the most influential quote you've ever heard or read!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have!. --Unknown And because one quote is never enough, here are some more of my favorites: Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his entire life there exists only a difference of degree!. --Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Though I hated the Dune series, it has some good quotations) Some never participate!. Life happens to them!. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security!. --Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert “The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just!.” --Abraham Lincoln "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed!. This world in arms is not spending money alone!. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children!. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense!. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron!.” --Dwight Eisenhower “Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence!.” - Monastery rule "You choose to go voluntarily into the fire!. The blaze might well destroy you!. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being!. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul!." --Soulforge, Margaret Weis “I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself!. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know!. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means!.” --Joseph Conrad "Let justice be done, though the world perish!." (Fiat justitia et pereat mundus!.) --Ferdinand IWww@QuestionHome@Com Charity begins at home!.My mom used to say that when i was growing up!.She was right,by teaching your children compassion,integrity and perseverance you do your part to make the world a better place!.One doesn't need to go and do charity work in africa or other places to be a good person ,you can start where ever you are with those people around you and make a difference in the world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I read this one a couple of years ago!. It is by G!.K!. Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down!. Without the rain, their would be no rainbow!. I myself have always wanted the freedom to dance in the rain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I identified w/ this quote so thoroughly I use it as my e-mail signature!. It's by Jean Harris who wrote it in her resignation letter from a prestigious girls' school!. She was going to drive to NY from VA to tell her lover, Dr!. Herman Tarnhour (!?sp) of The Scarsdale Diet fame goodbye & then commit suicide!. Long story short, the quote is "I WAS A PERSON, AND NO ONE KNEW!." I want that on my gravestone!Www@QuestionHome@Com "keep away from people who belittle your ambitions!. small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that, you too, can become great!." mark twain "just because you know that your going to get licked dosnt mean that you shouldnt try to succede!." Atticus finch from to kill a mocking birdWww@QuestionHome@Com There are two types of people in the world -- those who work and those who take the credit!.Try to be in the first group!. There is less competition there!. Www@QuestionHome@Com every day since i started working has been worse than the day before it!. That means that every day you see me, it's on the worst day of my life!. --Peter (office space)Www@QuestionHome@Com A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do!. Bob DylanWww@QuestionHome@Com "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt!." --Mark TwainWww@QuestionHome@Com The Golden Rule: "Do onto others as you would wish them do onto you"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Never point your finger at others, Because you always have three more pointing back at you!. Think about it!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com What do you think of me!? I don't think anything of you!. The Fountainhead - Ayn RandWww@QuestionHome@Com imagination is more important than knowledge -Albert EinsteinWww@QuestionHome@Com silence is golden but ducktape is silver!. Www@QuestionHome@Com "Be the change that u want to see in the world" Mathama Gandhi Www@QuestionHome@Com "It is what it is" :DWww@QuestionHome@Com |