A Collection of Quotes

Every now and then, I'll come across a quote that sinks and impacts me in a powerful way and gets me to think about life and what man aims for in his life. I'd like to share a few quotes that I've collected over the last year or so and a special section for the various quotes that begin a single chapter in many of the Dune novels.

Various

"Today is what you couldn't get done yesterday." - anonymous

"Now I know how to play the game," he said. "I've been taught how to play the game - how to go through my progressions, how to be patient, how to stay balanced, how to stay down when I throw, discipline. That's something I've been taught; it's something that I'm going to continue to improve on; and it can't be taken away from me. I'm only going to get better." - Michael Vick after NFL 2010 Playoffs

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one." - John Wooden

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." - William Shakespeare

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

“Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move” (Chinese proverb)

"When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity" - Steve Pavlina

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dune

"Every man has the same final destination: death at the end of life's road. But the path we travel makes all the difference. Some of us have maps and goals. Others are just lost." - Prince Rhombur Vernius, "Ruminations at a Fork in the Road" Dune: House Corrino, Pg. 336

"The man without concerns is the man without aspirations." - Prince Rhombur Vernius, Dune: House Corrino, Pg. 347

"The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open" - Fremen wisdom, Dune: House Corrino, Pg. 472

"Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken." - Stolen Journals, God Emperor of Dune, Pg. 49

"The basic rule is this: never support weakness; always support strength" - The Bene Gesserit Coda, Heretics of Dune, Pg. 150

"It is your fate, forgetfulness. All the old lessons of life , you lose and gain and lose and gain again" - Leto II, the Voice of Dar-es-Balat, Heretics of Dune, Pg. 336

"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hild. Otherwise you are caught off balance, continaually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain luck always passes them by. They refuse to see they can create some of their own luck." - Darwi Odrade, Chapterhouse: Dune, Pg. 48