In quotes

It’s Thursday and I’m ready for the weekend.  Are you?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve always enjoyed the well-timed or well-worded quote, whether from a famous person or otherwise.  Some end up become clichés of the speaker/writer’s original intent, others continue on as is.

Indulge me as I enumerate some of my all-time favorites, and I will do my utmost to attribute them to the proper source:

“Baseball is ninety percent mental.  The other HALF is physical.”

                        --Yogi Berra

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

                        --Winston Churchill

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

                        --Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

                        --Will Rogers

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”

                        --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“A life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives.”

                        --Jackie Robinson

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.”

                        --Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

“I don’t always get shot in the middle of a speech, but when I do, I finish the damn speech.”

                        --Theodore Roosevelt

“Never allow the fear of striking out from keeping you from playing the game.”

                        --Babe Ruth

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

                        --John F. Kennedy

“Try not!  Do, or do not!  There is no try!”

                        --Yoda

“If you build it, he will come.”

                        --The Voice, “Field of Dreams”

What are some of your favorites?