Ted Mosby Quotes

If you’re not scared then you’re not taking a chance. If you’re not taking a chance then what the hell are you doing anyway?

Hi— I’m Ted Mosby. And exactly 45 days from now you and I are going to meet and we’re going to fall in love and we’re going to get married and we’re going to have 2 kids and we’re going to love them and each other so much. All that is 45 days away, but I’m here now I guess because… I want those extra 45 days with you. I want each one of them. Look and if I can’t have them I’ll take the 45 seconds before your boyfriend shows up and punches me in the face, because… I love you. I’m always gonna love you, til the end of my days and beyond. You’ll see.

Love is the best thing we do.

If you're not scared you're not taking a chance. If you're not taking a chance, what are you doing?

If I could just give up... If I could just, you know, take the whole world's advice and move on and find someone else, that wouldn't be love! That would be- that would be some other disposable thing... that is not worth fighting for.

Unfinished. Gaudí, to his credit, never gave up on his dream. But that's not usually how it goes. Usually it isn't a speeding bus that keeps the brown, pointy, weird church from getting built. Most of the time it's just too difficult, too expensive, too scary. It's only once you've stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again, so you force yourself not to want it. But it's always there. And until you finish it, it will always be — Ted Mosby (HIMYM)

If you're not scared, you're not taking a chance. If you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing?

You can't cling to the past, because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.

You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.

Everyone has an opinion on how long it takes to recover from a breakup.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking ‘What if?’ I guess that’s happiness.