Quotes
 

I have to pay homeage to Pitt's new Sigma Delta Tau website for thinking about this, but most of us have a few quotes that we like and/or use for one reason or another. One from that site that I particularly liked is:

"I believe in pink. I believe laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing; kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles." - Audrey Hepburn

One with which I was raised is often attributed online to Mohammed Ali, yet it was in a Baptist missions booklet in 1955(?):

"Service to others is the rent you pay (to God) for the space you occupy on earth." - Albert Schweizer


Anyone else?

You only live once but if you live right, once is enough.

"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring." -St. Catherine of Sienna

"...but we are not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good." -Pope Benedict XVI

I just realized when I went to post this that all of my favorite quotes are religious...I blame Catholic School.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx

it's not a dog eat dog world, it's a dog doesn't return dog's phone call world. woody allen

it's a dog eat dog world and i'm wearing milkbone underwear. norm peterson(cheers)

the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it-oscar wilde

"In my mind, a half-hearted commitment is worse than no commitment at all." - Lou Holtz

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...being true to yourself never goes out of style!" Legally Blonde The Musical

"Look up, get up, and don't ever give up." - Michael Irvin (in his Hall of Fame induction speech)

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Remember: amateurs built the ark ... professionals built the Titanic. (unknown)

When I say JoePa-You say Terno
 

In honor of a very special man who means a lot to me and many other Penn Staters, I want to share some Joe Paterno quotes:

"Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back." (in regards to Penn State not having names on the back of the football jerseys)

"Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks."

"We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all."

I used to think of that when I was stressed out about Kappa stuff, and it reminded me of the strength we have as a group when we truly support each other.

As corny as this sounds... "life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get" - Forrest Gump.

"When one door closes, another one opens" (I have no clue who originally said this, but I think about it often)

Great thread, honeychile!

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.


Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.


"... And what is the state but a service and convenience to a large number of people, just like the electric and plumbing system? And wouldn't it preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, and not the plumbing for the men? And if your plumbing got so badly out of order, wouldn't it be preposterous to sit still and not make an effort to mend them?" We the Living (one of my favorite books)

kinda wish this was like facebook so i could like this.... instead i'll just do this
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and sayyy "if God isn't a Penn State fan, then why is the sky blue and white?!"

That's an AZURE BLUE & WHITE sky, and God loves ADPis! :D

[/hijacked my own thread - pathetic!]

"When life throws you curveballs, you'll never get anywhere unless you swing the bat."

"Success needs no explanation. Failure deserves none." -attributed to Erwin Rommel

"The only failures are those who believe themselves to be."

"One ought never look down on another, except to lift him up."

"Simply because you can breathe, doesn't mean that you're alive, or that you've really lived."-Rise Against

"I'm not broken, I don't need to be fixed
And your pity, your stares are making me sick
And if my life leaves a bad taste in your mouth
Just spit it out, SPIT IT OUT!"-The Flaming Tsunamis

"So you were born, and that was a good day
Someday you'll die, and that is a shame
But somewhere in the between was a life of which we all dream
And nothing and no one will ever take that away"-Streetlight Manifesto

I don't know where it comes from, but it's similar to the line in The Sound of Music: "When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window."

Two of my favorites:

"The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life." -- Attributed to Plato

"The only things we keep permanently are those we give away." -- Waite Phillips (benefactor of Philmont Scout Ranch)