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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.

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[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You brush at night to keep your teeth.

You brush in the morning to keep your friends.

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[–] Tigbitties@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

A Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal. Progress is meaningless unless it is aimed at something specific. - Nietzsche

[–] StarServal@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

“Leaders lead by example.”

If you want to be a good leader, you have to be the first to follow your own rules.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It hasn't been that long, only few years, but it always hits me deep:

"Everyone thinks they are the hero of their own story." - Handsome Jack

Probably not something original, but the voice acting and the scene it was in made it way more powerful than any philosopher in a book could.

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[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The secret of invisibility : Stand where no one is watching.

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

This is not a famous thing, it's just that I've heard someone at a past workplace say this.

"Doing the same thing that got you here into this position will not make you successful in it, it may not even be enough for you to keep it."

To be clear, he wasn't saying it to me or anyone, he said it to himself as a life lesson he learned going through promotions and changing companies. The point was to stay humble and don't expect your past accomplishments to get you through future challenges.

[–] MythicWolf@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My Auntie circa 1994:”Never buy meat from a man selling it out of the back of his truck.” I’m always astounded by how relavent it’s is.

P.S. she said I could quote her on this. </3

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[–] CuriousBeagle@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." -Gandhi

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[–] Aggressive_Bath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Psh, friends? Who needs them? They roll more off the line every day."

Sounds super callous out of context, but the guy was incredibly friendly and kind. He had originally moved across the country to where his wife was living, and at this point they were going through a really bad divorce. I strongly suspect his local support network was entirely her friends, and they were turning their backs on him. I always took it as advice on being unafraid to remove the people who are dragging you down, and be confident that there are better ones out there.

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

And here is Jeff Goldblum it reciting from memory

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[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

A teacher of mine said to the class: "You may not like studying for now, but you will regret lacking education for the rest of your life"

So basically trade in half of your childhood to have a better time for most of the rest of your life (yeah work may suck, but with better education you can more easily find something you don't hate)

[–] JoeClu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count, and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in.” - Alexander Warbucks

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[–] settinmoon@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Strong opinions loosely held"

Implying you should have the courage to fight for what you believe is right but not hold onto them once you're proven wrong.

I learned this as a company culture thing from one of my previous employers and not sure if there's another source for it. I did not like that employer very much in the end but this quote has been stuck with me since and I live by it.

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[–] thisbenzingring@wirebase.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Today is a good day to die

This is meaningful to me because it's a place I must try and be in every day. Leave nothing for chance and understand that I can die at any moment so I must always be one step in front of it.

This is what the white men believe Crazy Horse would say in Lakota as a battle cry. It was probably more like "come on let's go" but it wasn't so much the words but the message behind them. It's a heavy mental mindset that you are ready to die today if that's what happens. It means you have lived with honor and respect. Your family knows your love for them. You have shown your ancestors respect so they will be waiting for you, welcoming you to the other world as a warrior coming home. This is a power place to be, especially if you have to face a life and death situation.

So this is the battle cry

Hokahey! Nake nula wauŋ welo!

Let's do this! I am ready for what comes!

[–] Chrisosaur@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also enjoy the follow-up, “but the day is not yet over.” (This is a Star Trek reference, but “today is a good day to die” was written into Klingon culture by one of the writers who was a student of Native American history.)

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[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

An image of Dr. Harold Winston holding the hand of the young gorilla who would go on to be Winston of Overwatch, in the Horizon Lunar Colony observatory, silhouetted by the earth in the distance. Text in the foreground says the quote from the comment. "Always remember: never accept the world for what it appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be." -Overwatch

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

"Wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time."

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Paraphrased probably, but:

“What is an ocean but a thousand drops?”

It’s a really good way to get rid of the mentality of one person can’t make a difference. Because everyone is a drop, and without so many drops, there is no ocean. Maybe one individual drop doesn’t truly make a difference alone. But what if every drop was gone?

It helps me feel that, even if the difference I make isn’t big enough to make an impact, an impact only exists BECAUSE of all the drops.

That goes for both positive and negative things. A thousand bad drops are needed to make a bad thing. A thousand good drops to make a good one.

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some people give me shit for it, but one that's actually gotten me through some struggles is "despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage." I have a tendency to push back against things that feel unfair/unjust and it often is more destructive and time-consuming than it's worth. Sometimes i need a reminder to just accept things the way they are.

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[–] kszug@szmer.info 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every single quote from Bojack Horseman

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[–] JoeyJoJoJuniour@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It only ever ends once, everything else is just progress.

Jacob on Lost

[–] Subversivo@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 year ago

"Everything will be forgotten and nothing will be repaired", from Milan Kundera.

[–] danie10@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

"be careful of what you wish for, as you may just get it"

[–] falinter@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

"Money I got, time I don't."

My dad said this offhanded joking remark to me 30 years ago and it lives rent free in my head. It's a privileged view point for sure but I took it to mean save and be prepared but don't be frugal toa detriment. Spend on things you love and spend away on things you hate. Don't waste time if you can afford not to.

[–] HomesliceAbe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I took an introduction to nursing class in high school where we had to know the names of all the bones, the chambers of the heart, CPR, etc. During one particular topic, one of the students kinda snapped and exclaimed "I'm too stupid for this!" The teacher, a badass ER nurse who was a single mom, rode a Harley, and had seen everything from electrocuted flesh to years-old bed sores, simply said "Good. That means you're learning."

I work with special needs kids, and whenever they complain about feeling stupid, I pass along that wisdom, but in a bit nicer way: "You're not stupid, you're just learning."

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

"You must know what happened happened and couldn't have happened any other way." -Morpheus

"What stands in the way becomes the way." M.A.

[–] z500@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

"This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. You have to learn to live with it. You have a simple choice now. Live with it below the sea with Louis, or above the clouds with the Enterprise."

[–] lateraltwo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better to do it than live with the fear of it, I always say

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[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The absence of limitations is the enemy of creativity

  • Orson Welles, I believe
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[–] Ichebi@lemmy.pt 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

far from the eyes, far from the heart

Don't even know why

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[–] rarely@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Get in the zone, autozone!

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