If anyone wants to join in posting your favorite quotes, we'd all enjoy the contributions. Previous quote threads: April Quotes March Quotes

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves." ~Thomas Edison

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." -By Douglas Everett and "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." -Henry David Thoreau

Thank you. :)

I love this one. If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh

"O Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the winds, I come to you as one of your many children. I need your strength and your wisdom. Make me strong not to be superior to my brother, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy: "Myself"

(Chief Dan George)

33By knowing others, you are intelligent;
By knowing yourself, you are truly wise.
Mastering others, you are strong;
Mastering yourself, brings you truer power.

Those who know that they have enough are truly wealthy.

Those who persist will reach their goal.

Those who maintain their course have a strong will.

Those who embrace death will not perish,
but have life everlasting.

(Lao Tzu)

Looks like we have a week's worth of excellent quotes!

Here is one I stumbled upon recently. Thought it was interesting. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it," Computer Scientist Alan Kay, Founder, Xeroxs Palo Alto Research Center.

Found this while looking for something else:

A short story must last no longer than taking a good st.
Whats left should be used to wipe your a.

-Edgar Plowright

(I cleaned it up a bit. I think the sentiment is valid, even if rudely put)

I'm okay with Tom, Dick, and Harry. It's everyone else that I cannot stand! (Unknown)

"We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it..." Donald Curtis garblesnix - I like that one. (how true, how true)

Another one of my favorites. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Andre Gide

Excellent quotes, everyone! Thank you so much for posting.

"Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity." - Lao-tzu

Your latest one is very true for writing... Whenever you try to write something that the masses will like it never turns out, and then a few weeks later you look back at that short story you wrote on the side and think..."why didn't I finish this, I had som much fun working on it."

The Art of Mass Debate ... ... or Copy & Paste...and throw it in Your Face. A Quote from Me...inspired By the Community Forum :]

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." Woody Allen "You might do a magnificent job of creating an unfamiliar world -- a far place, a far-off time, or both -- with the most skilled film-makers and the best technology available. But you have to make sure that world is inhabited by people whose lives and fates we care about and whose story has something to say to us." Ridley Scott

James Joyce: "Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not." Mark Twain: "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

One thought driven home is better than three left on base. -James Liter Bits & Pieces May 2005

No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence:

Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway.

two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

• Mike Nichols, columnist

"What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible." --Theodore Roethke

If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. ~ Kingsley Amis

"Success is about who you are, not what you have. Successful people work to discover their talents, to develop those talents, and then to use those talents to benefit others as well as themselves." --Tom Morris

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." ~Michelangelo

"We write to taste life twice." ~Anais Nin.

"Ideas are to literature what light is to painting." ~Paul Bourget

"Everything stinks till it's finished." ~ Dr. Seuss

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it." ~ Herman Melville

If you dont know where you are going, every road leads you there. ~ Lewis Carroll

Good work doesn't happen with inspiration. It comes with constant, often tedious and deliberate effort. If your vision of a writer involves sitting in a cafe, sipping an aperitif with one's fellow geniuses, become a drunk. It's easier and far less exhausting.

• William Hefferman

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." ~ William James "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing." ~Friedrich von Schiller "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault." ~Cardinal Newman "You may delay, but time will not." ~Benjamin Franklin