Quotes
I really enjoy a good quote and have made a habit of scribbling down inspiring sentences I read into the back of my diary. Here is a selection of quotes that light up my mind. I hope you enjoy them too.
Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning towards dynamite. It is a feeling in the stomach, a delight of the nerves, of the forearms. The skin tastes the air, and every deep-drawn breath is sweet. Its beginning has the pleasure of a great stretching yawn; it flashes in the brain and the whole world glows outside your eyes. A man may have lived all his life in the grey, and the land and trees of him dark and sombre. The events, even the important ones, may have trooped by faceless and pale. And then – the glory – so that a cricket song sweetens his ears, the smell of the earth rises chanting to his nose, and dappling light under a tree blesses his eyes. Then a man pours outward, a torrent of him, and yet he is not diminished. And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. It is a lonely thing but it relates us to the world. It is the mother of all creativeness, and it sets each man separate from all other men – John Steinbeck, East of Eden
SLIDESHOW QUOTES (FROM THE MOTIVATIONAL/GEOGRAPHICAL SLIDESHOW I GIVE IN SCHOOLS)
If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull¦ we wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days – Kent Nerbur
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive – John Eldridge
Whatever you do, or dream you can¦ begin it now
- Goethe
If you were to die right now, how would you feel about your life – Brad Pitt, Fight Club
Man’s greatest step is between the warm bed and the cold floor- Anon.
Let your boat of life be light – Jerome K Jerome
I laugh in the face of danger, I drop ice cubes down the vest of fear – Capt. Edmund Blackadder
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humour – Lord Nelson
Herald what your mother said
Read the books your father read
Try to solve the puzzle
in your own sweet time -Desiree
The essential in daring is to know how far too far one can go
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not about the bike
-Lance Armstrong
O O O, I’m still alive
-Pearl Jam
One kind word can warm three winter months
- Japanese proverb
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you are still a rat. -Lily Tomlin
I love going to new countries and trying out the McDonald’s – Mandy Moore
I’m going where the sun keeps shining,
where the weather suits my clothes
-Harry Nilsson
See China right in front of you
- Bono
There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven
-Jack Johnson
¦ but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to sea
-Robinson Crusoe
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for
-Grace Murray Cooper
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast
- King David (the Bible)
Every morning our newspapers could report that more than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty – Jeffrey Sachs, Director of UN millennium project
Every 3 seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies due to preventable diseases or hunger- Make Poverty History Campaign
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little
- Edmund Burke
Ending extreme poverty in the world:
We can’t say our generation didn’t know how to do it,
we can’t say our generation couldn’t afford to do it,
we can’t say our generation didn’t have reason to do it.
- Bono, U2
Therefore, I tell you, do not worry¦ who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life – Jesus (the Bible)
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings
- William Shakespeare
Do one thing everyday that scares you
- Baz Luhrmann
… or do,
something that’s never been done – Coldplay
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome – Samuel Johnson
It is not the critic who counts¦ nor the man who points out 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 dust and sweat and blood, who knows great enthusiasm, great devotion¦ and who, at worst if he fails at least fails whilst daring greatly¦
- Theodore Roosevelt
Never, never, never, never give up
Winston Churchill
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we can reach the mountain top of our desires
-Nelson Mandela
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
- Oscar Wilde
As for man, his days are like grass¦ the wind blows over it and it is gone -King David (the Bible)
We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail¦ or worse yet afraid we may succeed Sean Conneroy, Finding Forester
Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory – Mahatma Gandhi
By perseverance the snail reached the ark
- Charles Spurgeon
I will go anywhere so long as it is forward
-David Livingstone
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things – Bruce Barton
Live like you’ll die tomorrow, love you’ll live forever, dance like nobody’s watching and sing like nobody’s listening – Anon.
EXTRA QUOTES
70 years is nothing so you may as well push yourself right to the very extremes of your capabilities – Bob Geldoff
I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do, let me do it now, let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again – Etienne de Grellet
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them
- Ernest Hemingway
To choose doubt [agnosticism] as a philosophy of life is asking to choosing immobility as a means of transportation – Yan Martel, Life of Pi
O baby, baby it’s a wild world, and its hard to get by just on a smile – Cat Stevens
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats
Smooth seas do not make good sailors – African Proverb
Its not how hard you hit but how hard you can get hit that counts Rocky Balboa
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices – William James
There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and splendid victory – A K Boyd
It is so much easier to tell a person what to do with his problem than to stand with him in his pain – David Augsburger
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants – J Brotherton
I don’t pay enough attention to the good things when I’ve got them
I don’t pay enough attention to the good things when I’ve got them
I don’t pay enough attention to the good things when I’ve got them, yeah
- Josh Pyke
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to make it think he didn’t exist
-Kaizer Sauzee
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well, just get up and dance Anonymous
Some things in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself quoted by Jon Krakaeour
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish Sam, Lord of the Rings
Hope is the power to be cheerful in circumstances we know to be desperate GK Chesterton
A stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature – Yan Martel, Life of Pi
You can get used to anything. Haven’t I said that already Isn’t that what all survivors say Yan Martel, Life of Pi
What we do in life, echoes in eternity
- Gladiator
We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like
-Richard Foster
You see no meaning to your life¦ you should try – Coldplay
Isn’t there something in living dangerously
-Aldous Huxley
Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted¦ Would you capture it or just let it slip EMINEM
Do not look the other way¦ the world hungers for action not words – Nelson Mandela
Whenever I feel like exercise I always lie down until the feeling passes – Oscar Wilde
If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull¦ we wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days – Kent Nerbur
You reap what you sow: sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny- Anonymous
I’m no longer thinking about what I’m doing.
I’m just sitting on my bike and riding along¦
and meeting the people that I meet – Ewan McGregor
There is pain that is perceived and there is pain that is endured and they are two different worlds, inhabited by creatures of two different races. We cannot choose which one we belong to – John Le Carre
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I like this one from Thoreau:
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. “
I really like the quotes and the fact that you are helping all the children! Thanks for coming to the ISB in Switzerland yesterday to show us a presentation about your ride so far!!!! It was really cool! I am happy for you to have done this long bike ride… Hope to here from u soon!
Leslie
sir ji great work you are doing…juz keep ur spirits high..and well all are praying for you…god bless you
“What matters is not neccisarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog”.
you’re an inspiration mate.