Quotations and Sayings 5
"O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible."
(Marianne Moore, O To Be A Dragon)
"The things we touch have no permanence. My master would say: there is nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real."
(Li Mu Bai- character in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
"Never laugh at live dragons"
(J.R.R. Tolkein - The Hobbit)
"The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. "
(Ellen Glasgow)
"Come not between the dragon, and his wrath"
(William Shakespeare, King Lear)
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
(Mahatma Gandhi)
"The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown"
(Carl Jung)
"The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential."
(Mychal Wynn)
"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours."
(Noela Evans)
"The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it."
(Bob Dole)
"Genius is eternal patience."
(Michaelangelo)
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
(Saint Francis De Sales)
"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
(Ralph Vaull Starr)
"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."
(Dale Carnegie)
"Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes."
(Mary Martin)
"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
(Tom Robbins)
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
(Henry David Thoreau)
"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."
(Richard M. DeVos)
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
(William Arthur Ward)
"Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas."
(Marchioness Townsend)
"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier"
(Thomas Robert Gaines)
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
(Maya Angelou)
"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."
(Walt Disney)
"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."
(William Arthur Wood)
"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."
(Emily Dickinson)
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that is was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
(T.E. Lawrence)
"The enlightened man enjoys perfect freedom in active life. He is like a dragon supported by deep waters or like a tiger that commands its mountain retreat. The man who is not enlightened drifts about in the affairs of the world. He is like a ram that gets its horns caught in a fence or like a man who waits for a hare to run against a tree stump and stun itself."
(Hekiganroku by Setcho)
"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."
(Zadok Rabinwitz)
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
(Benjamin Disraeli)
"If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much"
(Hesiod)
"I imagined a dragon inside myself," Quaid explains. "We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me."
(Dennis Quaid on Dragonheart)
"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
(George Fabricius)
"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."
(Henry Maudsley:)
"An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."
(Charles R. Swindoll)
"Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side"
(Zig Ziglar)
"Never laugh at live dragons"
(The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien)
"Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."
(Beverly Nichols)
"My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure."
(Milton Garland)
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."
(Abraham Lincoln)
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging"
(Hank Aaron)
"Whenever you get knocked down in the game of life, immediately get up, get better and get going again."
(Greg Hickman)
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "
(James Allen)
"Don't think! Feeeeeeeel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon."
(Bruce Lee - Enter The Dragon)
"Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!"
(Max Schmelling)
"Magic is just a different set of physics laws than the ones you're used to. But it still has to be consistent with itself, otherwise it won't work. There's no such thing as chaos."
(Pete and Ariel talking - Ariel)
"Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.
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(Vincent Lombardi)
"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."
(Thomas Edison)
"Dragons, no longer invunerable ride the arms of mortals and sing."
(Doris Vallejo)
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has"
(Confucius)
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
(Bruce Lee)
"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
(E. M. Gray)
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
(Helen Keller)
"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
(Ovid)
"The enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy."
(Shaolin Abbot - Enter The Dragon)
"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
(Napoleon Hill)
"Competition is a by-product of productive work, to its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
(Ayn Rand)
"Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon"
(Edward Topsell, 1658)
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
(Henry Ford)
"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
(Stephen Covey)
"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."
(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together."
(Vesta Kelly)
"Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere...to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together."
(Tony Dungy)
"Advice: If you happen upon the skull of a dragon, leave that place quickly. For whatever killed it, may still be around.
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(Thieves Proverb)
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization"
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you."
(Paul Meyer)
"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."
(Peter F. Drucker)
"Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?"
(Henry Ford)
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
(Theodore Roosevelt)
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
(Andrew Carnegie)
"Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure."
(Brian Tracy)
"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year; a single day's work an achievement for eternity"
(Gabriel Heatter)
"Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity."
(Walter Dill Scott)
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path"
(Kahlil Gibran)
"Long ago, when man was young and the dragon already old, the wisest of our race took pity on man, so he gathered together all the dragons, making them vow to watch over man always. And at the moment of his death, the night became alive with those stars. And thus was born the Dragons' Heaven. But when we die, not all dragons are admitted to this shining place. No, we have to earn it! And if we don't, our spirit disappears as if we never were.
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(Draco, the last of the dragons)
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
(Aristotle)
"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
(Harvey Milk)
"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
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(Marilyn vos Savant)
"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
(Joan Borysenko)
"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake"
(Henry David Thoreau)
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn."
(Gore Vidal)
"Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal"
(Horace)
"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
(Antoine de Saint Éxupéry)
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
(Henry David Thoreau)
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams"
(John Barrymore)
"Ordinary riches can be stolen: real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
(Oscar Wilde)
"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
"You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight"
(The Bible, Malachi 2:15)
"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
(Jean Paul Richter)
"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."
(Denis Waitley)
"Crouching tiger hidden dragon" is a quote from Chinese mythology and refers to hiding your strength from others"
(StarStuffs)
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
(Mark Twain)
"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams."
(Les Brown)
"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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
(Carl Jung)
"The hard way is the right way"
(John Alves)
"The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
(Henry Ford)
"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives"
(William James)
"... Calm as an angel in the dragon's den.."
(The Revolt of Islam)