What quote do you live by?

A wise person has something to say, a fool *has* to say something.

"Don't live life with regrets and Don't live life in fear"

"If it happens, it happens"

"You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing"

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for? "

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. "

"Had we ne'er lov'd sae kindly,
Had we ne'er lov'd sae blindly,
Ne'er met - or ne'er parted --
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. "

(to be read in a Scottish accent proper English below)

"Had we never loved so kindly,
Had we never loved so blindly,
Never met - or never parted -
We would never have been broken-hearted. "

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."

-Albert Nowland

I found a few I like:

"Be kind towards other, because everyone has their own struggles. Everyone has their fight to fight. "

"Second is the first loser, so never give up"

And this one is cool, it's from Lou Holtz, when he was trying to give a pep talk to an underdog NCAA football team (the team lost, but they were like 50 point underdogs, it was Illinois last year, lol), but he said:

Don't be like the guy who fell off of the twenty story building. He went by every floor, looking at all the windows as he went by saying: "I'm doing alright so far! " until he hit the ground like a stack of pancakes.

And I think he meant to make the best of a worst case scenario (even though he was trying to get Illinois to think they could win, lol). Illinois still lost to Usc, but the score wasn't as bad as it could of been(it could of been a lot worse, I think it was like 52 - 17, but USC could of scored more), because Illinois didn't just give up because they were out-matched, they still played football, down to the last minute. They played for dignity, I would guess. And I mean, that would bring me to the next quote I like:

"You got to know when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em. "

Like, know you limitations or whatever. So expectation doesn't bust ya chops in any way. If they knew what they were up against, then they beat the point spread, or came close, lol. So it depends on how you look at it.

As uplifting quotes go, I'd say: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blessed. " - Alexander Pope

My favorite, though, is: "Audaces fortuna iuvat. " - (Fortune favors the bold. ) - Virgil

"In Life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It is because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps. "

-Neil Strauss

There is no right or wrong, just opinion.

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right. "
-Henry Ford

"Don't trip over a stack of boulders when you can easily step over them one at a time. Instead of road blocks, they become the stepping stones you need to grow and to move forward. "

Don't know if some famous person said that, but that's something my friend told me and its hard but it works :].

There is one attributed to Ronald Reagan, that goes something like this:

"There is no limit to how far a man can go, or what he can do, as long as he doesn't mind who gets the credit. "

I've always found that this is a good work ethic!

"The Devil could not corrupt Jesus, but the law of Men prevailed as Pontius Pilate destroyed the Messiah. "

This shows that as powerful as any man is, there is nothing above the law. Man is the only thing that controls another man.

Good question.
I was working at a hospital once and I was supposed to medicate patient ABC once, but I decided to go see patient XYZ; the doctor for patient abc came thru at the exact same time, and the doctor sees me and says, 'patient abc says he hasn't had his pain medication. Why haven't you medicated him. " So I start saying something like, 'well, I was just about to, but this other patient called. " Doctor cuts me off, and says, "I didn't ask you for excuses; I asked you why you didn't medicate the patient yet. "
From that day on, believe me, one of my quotes to live by has been, "I didn't ask for excuses". :)

Every Man Dies But Not Every Man Really Lives

We just need the ambition that we wanna be something
Not just any person that was born on this life and waiting for the time of death!