What's your favourite inspirational quote or quotes?

Love it!

Not sure this is very motivational, but I found it as a teenager and it has never left me.  by Hilaire Belloc

The False Heart

I said to heart, "How goes it?"  Heart replied:  'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'  But it lied.

My favourite quote that sums up everything in the modern world would have to be ....

'I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas,’

Lord Vetinary (Terry Pratchett Discworld Novels)

I agree with Gordon in that I could name another 1000 Terry Pratchett quotes, but this one is my favourite!

My favourite Dr. Seuss quote, “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

I am very fond of Oscar Wilde's words from his essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism:-

Charity is a woefully inadequate means of partial restitution.

Others I like are: giving isn't giving til it hurts; funny isn't funny if it hurts someone else; rules are not made until they are broken....

The last one about rules is more of a paradox I suppose.  All three of them came from a teacher at school, my former Head of Year. 

One more for the time being, otherwise I'll industrialize the process and keep turning them out lol - 

Making a mountain out of a mole hill....

This was presented to me as 'an old adage', and they were well meant and kindly - and timely - words, at a point when I did in fact need to heed them.

Cool thread yano