Pounce Quotes

Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Affirmations Positive Inspirational

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

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Life is like a box of chocolates.
- Forrest Gump

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Like an Eagle, May You Always Soar
High Above the Troubles of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is like a game of cards.
The hand you are dealt is determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Football is like life - it requires perseverance,
self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,
dedication and respect for authority.
- Vince Lombardi

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be like me" is not a Golden Rule.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms,
each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller

In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

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

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain

Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen

The unknown is like the darkness of a cave -
it can be illuminated by the brief light
of one adventurer's small candle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison

An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous

I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower.
A watery way an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
- Sir Walter Scott

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

Like a Rose, I Thrive -
Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood

Like a Chameleon, I Adapt to Changing Circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like an Owl, I am Alert, Patient, and Objective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

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