Clint Smith
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
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Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain, we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man can not possibly live for a moment without it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
I love you, I am at rest with you, I have come home.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk !
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We are stripped of every attribute of freedom and eligibility for legal self defence. Our property may be plundered before our eyes, violence may be committed on our persons, even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. We are denationalized; we are disfranchised.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
To God, there is no zero. I still exist.
The greatest sign of a success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Vegas, baby.
Live Simply, Laugh Often, Love Deeply.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Success is the child of audacity.
He who has hope has everything.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Hasta la vista, baby. :
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia. To mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Do you like scary movies ?
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.