Quotes · Skopia

30 quotes

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.1

Poem

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism · 1711

★ 7.0

Film · Musical (film) · Drama (film) · Musical · Drama

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted? One moment. Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?

Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith

8 Mile · 2002

★ 7.0

Autobiography and memoir

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

★ 6.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong.

The Babe

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 6.9

100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

1983

★ 6.1

Play · Tragedy (play) · Tragedy

Who strives always to the utmost, For him there is salvation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust · 1808

★ 5.6

In life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!

Theodore Roosevelt

1900

★ 5.4

Poem

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

1579

★ 5.3

Play · Drama (play)

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; 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.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 5.1

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T.E. Lawrence

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom · 1926

★ 5.1

Personal journal

How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

1922

★ 4.3

Speech · Political speech · Historical literature

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Pericles

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 3.7

Poem

A short life in the saddle, Lord! Not long life by the fire.

Louise Imogen Guiney

1893

★ 3.7

Film · Biography (film) · Adventure drama (film) · Biography · Adventure drama

And just remember if you want something in life, reach out and grab it.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild · 2007

★ 3.7

Film · Science fiction (film) · Action (film) · Science fiction · Action

Do you want to take a leap of faith or become an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone?

Saito

Inception · 2010

★ 3.7

Poem

Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the Mustn'ts · 1974

★ 3.5

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything...that's heroic. Let's be heroes!

Mox

Varsity Blues · 1999

★ 3.5

Song · Folk rock

Well, I can tell you about the river Or we could just get in.

Bill Callahan

From the Rivers to the Ocean · 2007

★ 3.5

Film · Coming of age (film) · Sports (film) · Coming of age · Sports

Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by.

The Babe

The Sandlot · 1993

★ 3.5

Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.

Sabrina Fairchild

Sabrina · 1954

★ 2.9

Film · Comedy (fim) · Science fiction (film) · Comedy · Science fiction

What are you preparing? You're always preparing! Just go!

Dark Helmet

Spaceballs · 1987

★ 2.0

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy drama

Alright, fine. You wanna be in a band? Fine. Go ahead. Play every night. Play three times a night! Don't just dick around the same coffee house for five years. Don't dick around with her or with me. I mean, try at something for once in your life. Do something about it, but you know what? You better do it now, and you better do it fast, because the world doesn't owe you any favors. And whether you know it or not, you're on the inside track to loserville, USA.

Lelaina Pierce

Reality Bites · 1994

★ 2.0

Play · Drama (play)

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 1.9

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!

Fiorello La Guardia

1976

★ 1.9

Novel · Children's literature

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

Roald Dahl

Matilda · 1988

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

2009

★ 1.9

Interview · Magazine

You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it.

Lawrence Weiner

Interview Magazine · 2015

★ 1.9

Novel

Why not seize the pleasure at once?-How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

Emma · 1815

★ 1.3

Film · Crime drama · Thriller (film) · Crime · Thriller

No one gives it to ya, you have to take it.

Frank Costello

The Departed · 2006

★ 1.3

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