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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
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Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- 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
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Ah, not everything is as seems...
- 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
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- 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
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
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
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
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -
the little things that are so easy to overlook,
yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment
to notice and to pay attention.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh,
for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
Jesus replied:
"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it:
'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
- Matthew 22:36-40
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
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