What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It’s pretty cool to see.

OldManGenghis,

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?

neilrodgers75,

“Good things come to those who wait”. It has been true so many times in my life.

RomanRoy,
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“Better say sorry than ask for permission”

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression”

swade2569,
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It’s better to regret something you have done than something you haven’t.

AncillaryJustice,
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Here are a few off the top of my head (though I looked up the original kanji for some of the Japanese ones)…

To enjoy life’s immensity, you do not need many things.

  • Ryōkan, a Japanese poet

Ain’t no shame in holding onto grief, as long as you make room for other things too.

  • Bubbles, from the last episode of The Wire

Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do.

  • Kaladin, from The Stormlight Archive Book 2 by Brandon Sanderson

Beware the difference between intelligibility and correctness.

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Success consists of moving from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  • Winston Churchill

猿も木から落ちる (Saru mo ki kara ochiru)

Even monkeys fall from trees.

  • Anonymous, traditional Japanese saying

正勝吾勝 (Makatsu agatsu)

True victory is victory over one’s self.

  • Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido
Whitebrow,

This one is from my previous boss: “you gotta do what’s good for you, and nobody else”

Taught me to prioritize things that are important to me and not to live for the sake of others

Another was “you can’t help people who don’t want to help themselves”

Taught me that some efforts are futile because unwillingness from others will result in deterioration to the status quo unless they’re willing to participate to move things forward

randoom,

“Love is the only rational act.”-Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie.

agitatedpotato,

This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it.

Candelestine,

For my whole life is a tall order. Probably “what goes around comes around”.

ZuriMuri,
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„Old habits die hard“

&

"Anything that can go wrong will (eventually) go wrong."

  • Added the eventually for Murphy’s law because in its original version it kinda implies that everything that can will go wrong right away
samus12345,
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I’ve seen “and at the worst possible time” added to the end of Murphy’s Law. Right away might not be the worst possible time.

jagged,

No one is ever on their deathbed wishing they had worked more.

(And quotes of that ilk). It’s genuinely something that informs the structure of every day for me.

wabafee,

I think it would be this two personally.

Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you. - Confucius

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. - V

Sabakodgo,
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“There isn’t any shame in being weak, the shame is in staying weak” - black clover

Planescape,

“Nothing changes if I don’t change”.

harry_h0udini911,

“What I’m about to tell you is top secret, a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one knows about, the guys that are invisible. The top 1% of the top 1%, the guys that play God without permission.”

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