"Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something." - Jake the Dog, Adventure Time.

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got."

Usually comes to mind when people are waiting around for others to solve their problems for them.

Decide what you're gonna do before you do it.

When I was like 8, a liftee at my local ski hill told me that as I dangled from the chairlift about 5 feet off the ground because I waffled getting on the lift.

A teacher of mine once said:"I can't understand, why a person needs a ton, to move itself."

20 years later I found r/fuckcars.

When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: Sit — down — and — talk!

Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor

Everything remains possible, as long as you don't choose.

Mr. Nobody (2009)

There's no room on Mars for limp dicks.

It's a quote for a horrible 90s indie film that's always struck with me for some reason. My social group and I have since taken this quote as an absolute/truism that gets referenced whenever a situation calls for absolute certainty. Because as we all know, there's no room on Mars for limp dicks.

Sometimes the good you do, doesn’t do you any good.

"Get to the Choppa"

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all”. -God (futurama)

This little quote helps make me thorough in my work

If you hide your whole life, you'll forget who you are.

The future is no place to place your better days.

We suffer more in imagination than reality

My grandfather used to tell me: "What I know is that I know nothing". He used to tell me that even in his old age, he was still amazed by the things he discovered, just like a child. That taught me to always be humble and to understand the point of view of others and to always learn in life. So I will always remember this quote.

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness—that is life.” - Capt. Picard, Star Trek TNG

May the bridges I burn light the way.

Theres two -

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" - Dr. Seuss

And a recent one - "Your life starts where your comfort zone ends"

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”

• Bertrand Russell

Misery isn’t a currency. (this applies to when you make yourself suffer with sadness as a way to buy yourself out of guilt)

This was told to my by my best friend over 30 years ago, he passed away on Thursday.

I have two that keep finding their way to be relevant. "smooth seas never made a skilled sailor" and "dont break anything you cant fix"

"Friends and Family fuck you first". Sounds like a pretty shitty quote, but it proves to be true as you get older.

This too shall pass.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

"You can't unshit yourself".

A bit crass maybe but it's always stuck with me. Basically a way of thinking in bad situations that need action eg if you've shat yourself, no amount of wishing you hadn't is going to change the fact that you've shat yourself, so what are you going to actually do about it?

Hopefully it's metaphorical but works on both counts.

"The name's Bond, James Bond". Because of that quote, I have never failed to remember James Bond's name.

Don't hold grudges. While you're holding a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.

“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never underestimate the power of denial."

― Ricky Fitts (American Beauty)

I now constantly test myself to see if I'm overlooking the truth. Refusal to admit reality or refusal to acknowledge an unpleasant truth can ultimately hold you back.

Time is the most expensive currency. You will never ever get back the time spent. So spend it wisely.

"What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius

"it's just work" --a buddy of mine

helps me every time I'm about to take something personal at work or am annoyed about processes.

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read” ~ Groucho Marx (or possibly Boy’s Life Magazine)

"It's easy to grab a tiger by it's balls, but it takes a real man to squeeze"

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I'm reminded of the last thing my dad said to me:

"Be careful with that son, I think it's loaded.."

When I was 11, my teacher told the class "if you don't have time, make time" and it just stuck to me ever since.

Now it just irritates me whenever someone says they don't have time.

"Be Better", a college professor/mentor always aid that to me. Whenever I think about taking the easy way or the shortest way I just say "Be Better" and then do the right thing.

Not sure where it is from, misquoting and probably butchering the quote:

"If you think a headache is bad, break your arm then the headache doesn't feel so bad anymore"

Basically if something is bad, but something worse comes along, then the bad thing doesn't seem so bad anymore

Update:

Because this has got me thinking, going to update when I quote source ( also don't want to double post)

Heard in Mass Effect 2, Thane quoting:

"When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death." Thomas Hobbes

Not my circus, not my monkeys. Let go or get dragged.

I heard them from my mom who went to Al Anon (I was in alcoholics anonymous). The first one is don't make other people's problems your problems. The second relates to letting people make their own mistakes. They're the greatest teacher

"You wouldn't worry what other people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did" ... good for those awkward teenage years. Conversely, it also highlights the value of receiving and giving attention.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough, The world is nothing but a crucible. -Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle.