21 Powerful Quotes that make you think:

21 Powerful Quotes that make you think:

1. “You gotta figure it out yourself, you piece of shit!”- The character Antonio Capuano in the movie The Hand of God
2.“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien...specifically Gandalf 
3.“The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn…." - Ernest Hemingway 
4. "Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains" - Nuke Laloosh Bull Durham
5. " Can’t you see, I gotta be me , Ain’t nobody Just like this, I gotta be me, Baby hit or miss"     - Odetta 
6. "Regrets, I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention" - Frank Sinatra 
7. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”                                   - Eleanor Roosevelt
8. " Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige

9. "I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy...it took me a while." - Serena Williams 
10. "Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside...remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."                                           - Charles Bukowski 
11. "If I had a head like that, it would hurt too." - My mother 

12. "The really important thing is not to live, but to live well." - Socrates 
13. " And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna
14. "I believe most things can be said in a few lines." - Enzo Ferrari 
15. "Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person."                               - Derek Jeter 
16. "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." - William Ernest Henley 
17. "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." - Theodore Roosevelt
18. “So if you wake up with the sunrise, and all your dreams are still as new, and happiness is what you need so bad, girl, the answer lies with you.” - Robert Plant What Is And What Should Never Be

19. " I'm young and I love to be young, I'm free and I love to be free" - Lesley Gore You Don't Own Me 
20.“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” - Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo 
21. " Man, you just ran through a big pile of dog shit!                                                                      Forrest Gump: It happens.                                                                                                          Bumper Sticker guy: What, shit?                                                                                                Forrest Gump: Sometimes.
- Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump
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