Pat Riley
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Forget about it.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
You make me want to be a better man.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me ?
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Honesty is the best image.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Do or do not, there is no try.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Rosebud.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
Let's go home, Debbie.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Kids don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
He who hesitates is lost.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
It is seldom indeed that one parts on good terms, because if one were on good terms one would not part.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Bond. James Bond.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
All you need is love.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss and ends with a tear.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Every human heart is human.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Children are all foreigners.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.