Emo Phillips Quotes

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

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- 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

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
- Elizabeth Warren

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next 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

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

There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride.
But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid.
Savor the adventure.
Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.
Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life -
as you did on that roller coaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)

Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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