Thread by @BrandonMChu

Went down a Reddit rabbit-hole on: "What quote has always stuck with you?" (bit.ly/2VcW2Zg)

Couldn't help thinking how much better it would be in Tweet form, so here's the top 25 after 50k post upvotes:

"well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions"

"Growing up, I didn't have a role model. I just had people I didn't want to be like."

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

-Captain Picard

"What is the most important step a man can take? Not the first, but the next one. Always the next one"

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

-Winnie the Pooh

'Isn't it funny how day-by-day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different..."

- C.S. Lewis

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.’”

-Kurt Vonnegut

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but doesn’t get you anywhere.”

"Don't fuck up your credit"

- Mom

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"

“Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.”

-Jim Stovall

“Hire good people and get out of their way.”

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor"

"She was one in a million, so there's five more just in New South Wales"

“The days are long, but the years are short.”

After Frodo says “I wish it need not have happened in my time” referring to Sauron gaining power, Gandalf responds “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

- Maya Angelou

"You could be the most delicious, juicy peach in the world, but there will always be people who fucking hate peaches."

My dad used to say "if you don't have the balls to say it twice, don't say it once"

"They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too."

- Oscar Wilde

"At one point, you played with your friends for the last time, and you didn't even know it"

"If you wait until you're ready, you'll be waiting for the rest of your life."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

-JFK

''Your past doesn't define you, it just gives you the starting point of who you're going to be." - Agent Carolina

"If you deal with an asshole in the morning, you dealt with an asshole. If you deal with assholes all day, you’re the asshole"