Never put passion before principle.
by Miyagi

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

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

Ah, not everything is as seems...
- 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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next 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.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- 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

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

Better late than never.
- Proverb

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

How much pain they have cost us,
the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson

A true "moral compass" never points toward discrimination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can never solve a problem on the level
on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

Be the chief but never the lord.
- Lao Tzu

Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie