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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

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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

Problem: attitude.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better Quotes and Sayings

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare

How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau

At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness,
and the word happy would lose its meaning
if it were not balanced by sadness.
It is far better take things as they come along
with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Jung

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

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
- Neil Young

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage -
they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner

Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

Today is probably a good day for something;
but it's a better day for doing nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

As a cure for worrying,
work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell

During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich,
for the hopes of the instructed
are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
- Epictetus

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity,
for in prosperity we forget God.
- Dwight L. Moody

All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe

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

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett

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

Better do a good deed near at home
than go far away to burn incense.
- Amelia Earhart

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