Gearhead / Hardcore Quotes - Poems - Sayings

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Somebody posted a bunch of drag racing quotes a while ago, but I try to keep up on some historical stuff, too. Cool shit from Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt. What you got? Try to post the author, too.

here's a famous one to kick it off:

Invictus
William Ernest Henley
1849–1903

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

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“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

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I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out
in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

--- Jack London's Credo

[wick]

One I remember from along time ago from a hottie on my old bike forum...

Some people treat their body like a temple,I treat mine like an amusement park.

[One Sweet Day]

One I remember from along time ago from a hottie on my old bike forum...

Some people treat their body like a temple,I treat mine like an amusement park.

Hey thats from SWAT!

[wick]

Hey thats from SWAT!

Never heard of it. I just saw she used it in her sig.