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Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
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We make sacred pact. I promise teach
karate to you, you promise learn.
I say, you do, no questions.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off.
Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off.
Don't forget to breathe, very important.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Money can't buy friends
but it can get you a better class of enemy.
- Spike Milligan
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to have your head in the clouds,
and know where you are...
than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them,
and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.
What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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