A few new worthy quotes:

[Different Socks]

"The basic act of knowing how to find your own food, to feed yourself with a meal you didn't buy, is a small act of freedom in an increasingly regimented and mechanical world". --Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook

“Every great movement(and some ideas) must experience 3 stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption”. --John Stuart Mill
--this is often the reaction I get from people when I tell them about the next adventure I'll be going on.

"This country had gone from being 25% urban/75% rural to exactly the opposite". --Jim Harrison

[Odd Man Out]

“Every great movement(and some ideas) must experience 3 stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption”. --John Stuart Mill

A well known variation of this:

"To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial." Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

[Datto]

I have a ton of quotes that I'd been inspired when thru-hiking the AT -- on some days I'd view that list on my Sharp Zaurus that I'd used to compose my AT thru-hiker journal on a daily basis.

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." --Samuel Johnson


Datto

[Dogwood]

On my travels I always keep a journal. Most of my journals are filled with concepts, ideas, and inventions that I've found along the way. Some of these things have come from my own thoughts and out of my own awareness but they also come from people like this - Albert Einstein.

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

[Dogwood]

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henrydavid106041.html)
Henry David Thoreau

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html) “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_), A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/52037)


“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_)



Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin388944.html)
Abraham Lincoln (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin388944.html)

“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_)



The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamart110212.html)
William Arthur Ward

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/william_arthur_ward.html)“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_)



A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nelsonmand101682.html)
Nelson Mandela (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/nelson_mandela.html)

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin103475.html)
Abraham Lincoln (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin103475.html)

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_), A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/238539)

[Different Socks]

All good ones Dogwood!

"When I leave the trail tomorrow morning, I will leave a little of myself here, which is probably the best reason for returning". ---entry in last shelter on AT

[Mags]

Whole bunch of outdoor quotes collected over the years:
http://www.pmags.com/colorado-hiking-and-outdoor-society-quotes

Personally, I am partial to the Taoist known as Yogi Berra: :)

You gotta know where you're going. Otherwise, when you get there you'll be lost.

Phil Rizutto: "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost."
Yogi Berra – "Ya, but we're making great time!"

It' s pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it

and of course:

When you get to the fork in the road, take it!

[Coosa]

I repeat this to myself every time I walk into an Outfitter ... REI, EMS, etc ... Or order online ...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

[Crusinsusan]

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." Sir Walter Scott

[whatnot]

"When you enter the wilderness, you become part of the food chain."

[double d]

"Sail away from safe harbors" Mark Twain

[fredmugs]

Whole bunch of outdoor quotes collected over the years:
http://www.pmags.com/colorado-hiking-and-outdoor-society-quotes

Personally, I am partial to the Taoist known as Yogi Berra: :)

You gotta know where you're going. Otherwise, when you get there you'll be lost.

Phil Rizutto: "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost."
Yogi Berra – "Ya, but we're making great time!"

It' s pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it

and of course:

When you get to the fork in the road, take it!



90% of the game is mental and the other half is physical

[fredmugs]

"The basic act of knowing how to find your own food, to feed yourself with a meal you didn't buy, is a small act of freedom in an increasingly regimented and mechanical world". --Hank Shaw, author of Hunt, Gather, Cook

"If you go away hungry it's your own damn fault." Keith Shaw.

[Cookerhiker]

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~John Muir

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." ~Rachel Carson

"Nature will not be admired by proxy." ~Winston Churchill

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." ~John Lubbock

"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life." ~John Burroughs

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." ~ Charles Lindbergh

[Frozen Achilles]

“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming
“WOO HOO what a ride!” by Florence Ondre