Ah, the old “That which does not kill me makes me stronger.” Always makes me imagine pre-prison Mike Tyson punching the person who says it over and over saying “You feeling stronger yet ?” ** SMACK ** “Huh ?” ** WHAM ** “How bout now ?”* *WHUMP **
“God never gives us more to bear than he knows we can handle.”
Or any variation on a sensless tragedy or death being “God’s will.”
This “God” of yours sounds like a real prick.
“There is no ‘I’ in ‘Team.’”
Yeah, well, thanks for the spelling lesson, coach. I never would’ve figured that out on my own. :rolleyes:
“But there is an ‘eat’ and a ‘me.’”
I guess this is more of a slogan than a motivational saying - but this has always annoyed me:
“Please put litter in its place.”
Huh? I’m pretty sure you mean put trash in its place. Because if you want me to put litter in its place, I’ll be droping this empty cup right here on the ground.
“The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”
Put it in it’s place ?
- Glares at styrofoam cup *
“You WILL bow down before me ! ! !”
That’s really awful. Makes my brain broil, and I’ve never even seen it before.
A negotiation or a plan is not a sports contest, it is perfectly possible for both sides to win. If both sides get what the need and want, then both are winning.
You are mistaking, again, a “win win situation” and a “compromise:” they are as different as llamas and horses.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. “The early bird gets the [early] worm,” so instead of rushing out before thinking (the early worm who gets eaten by the bird), take a minute to consider your actions.
Still trite, but the point is clear.
As Terry Pratchett put it in Carpe Jugulum, “That which does kill me makes me dead.”
As one of my old sig lines read:
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger
Heh. Reminds me of a favorite New Yorker cartoon: A cross-looking man is sitting in a restaurant, sawing away at his steak. A small plate with a few coins in it rests on the table, along with a sign reading, “Your tip so far.”
How about, “God never gives you more bears than you can handle.”
Untrue. The Biblical number for that is “two”.
Those youths got more bears than they could handle.
But there are three in “multiple personality disorder”.
The best retort: “But there’s an M and an E.”
That which does not kill me only makes me bitter and resentful.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
My boss has a “motivational” poster taped to his office window. It has a photo of six rats who apparently all made a dash, from six different directions, for the cheese in the same trap, and the trap got all of them. The slogan reads, “TEAMWORK: Share success, share failure.”
We have this one hanging up at work:
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But often we so persistently stare at the closed door that we fail to notice the one that has been open for us all along.”
It’s not attributed to anyone at work but Google suggests Helen Keller. (Wow, I accidentally typed Helen Killer and had to fix that.)
It’s not really that the quote itself that is so bad, but this fact:
My job has laid everyone off. All of us. We are just sticking around until July/August to get our severance payouts. Then after they lay us off, 700 of us I might add, they stick that poster up? Gee, thanks, that really helps. 
There is no “I” in Mongol Horde.