BRANDON'S FAVORITE QUOTES AND POEMS
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Champions keep playing until they get it right
To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic he isn't
Winners never quit and quitters never win
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts
You must do things you think you cannot do
Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness
Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open
The minute you start talking about what you are going to do if you loose, you have lost
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood
The first impression can be deceiving
Those who never try never succeed
Love from the heart, not from the eyes
You never realize how important something is until it is gone
Those feelings that don't change, are the feelings that are most sincere
True friends will never let you down, even when they know how difficult the task is
Assumptions are evil
When you truly know the meaning of the word love you will also know the meaning of the word pain
The worst feeling you can ever endure is to be let down by a person you trust and admire. Especially when all you ask for is a simple friendship
We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not a characteristic, but a habit
Improvise, adapt, and overcome
Dance like nobody's watching, work like you don't need the money, and love like you've never been hurt
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
Seek not to be understood but to understand, and not to be loved but to love
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God"
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite
Beauty is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears
No one can predict to what heights you can soar; even you will not know until you spread your wings
Attitudes are contagious....is your worth catching?
Believe in yourself. Play with heart and put the rest aside. You'll be amazed at how your body responds to your thoughts
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory
Winners are self-motivators. They don't wait for someone else to raise the bar. They raise it themselves
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible
Believe, for dreams can come true
Never give up on anyone, miracles happen everyday
Music is said to be the speech of angels
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different
The impossible is often the untried
A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is, he tells you
A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen
Wise men learn by others mistakes; fools by their own
The man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly
Fall seven times, stand up eight
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve
The measure of a person's real character is what he or she would do if they knew they would never get caught
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage without fear
I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself
A loving heart is the truest wisdom
Growing up is not abandoning one's dreams; Growing up is holding onto those dreams, but realizing they won't come true unless you work for them
Work as hard as you can, get as much as you can, give as much as you can
A man is never a failure until he blames someone else
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail
Life is something like this: If you don't put anything in it you don't get anything out
The meaning of things lies not in things themselves, but in our attitude towards them
Love conquers all
Few will lead many will follow
Failing is for the weak
Do ordinary things with extraordinary style
God gives every bird it's fruit, but he doesn't throw it into the nest
All cruelty springs from weakness
No man is entirely useless. Even the worst of us can serve as bad examples
To know what you know and what you don't know is the characteristic of one who really knows
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake
He who tells lies in your favor will just as easily tell lies against you
Live in the belief that this day may be you last. Tomorrow will then come as a pleasant surprise
Friends show us what we can do. Enemies show us what we must do
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen
There is no mistake so great as that of being always right
To be nobody, but myself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
Persistence is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird
Your spirit is the true shield
The truth shall set you free...
Stand up for what is right, even if your standing alone
The past has passed, move on once you have been educated
It is better to regret something you did do, than regret something you didn't do
If your thinking about doing something, you've thought too long
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind
Always aim for the moon cuz even if you miss you'll still land among the stars
It's not what you say, but how you say it
A flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all
If you cry because the sun has set in your life..your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars
No woman is ever worth your tears, but the one that is, won't Make you cry
I wish I had never met you, that way I could sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives
Everything will be ok in the end, so if it's not ok, then it's not the end
Dreams are almost always taller than you are, that way you have to reach to make them come true
The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
Friends are the Bacon Bits in the Salad Bowl of Life
Friendship is one mind in two bodies
Friends are God's way of taking care of us
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywher
Losers walk, winners run
The greatest pain in life is not to die, but to be forgotten
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
There are things you love to hear but you would never hear it from the person from whom you would like to hear it, but dont be deaf to hear it from the person who says it with his heart
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them come about through encouragment from someone else
Share joy is double joy, share sorrow is half sorrow
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, cause you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade
Love starts with a smile, develops with a kiss, and ends with a tear
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them with our own image, otherwise, we love only the refletion of ourselves we find in them
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not by strength, but by perseverance
There is a big difference between merely wishing for something and desiring it with an intensity that forces you to act
The more worthy the opponent, the better choice we have at performing our best. And should we lose, we need to remember that the real benefit is not in the victory, but in the attempt
Great goals require great passion
Champions arrive early and stay late. They know what they're there for. They don't have to be told five times to do something or be given a five-minute lecture on how to do it. You give them the challenge, and they get it done. There are people who work at 50 percent of their ability and are successful. Then there are the ones who give it 110 percent of everything they've got and barely make it. I'd rather have the people who give it their all and walk off the field knowing that. A champion is a person who, at the end, says, "I gave it everything I had; win or lose, you got the best I can give."
You have powers you've never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don't think you cannot. Think you can.
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.
The price of success is hard work and dedication to your training and the determination that whether you win or lose, you have applied the best of yourself to the game at hand
We dream, we believe, we train thus we will achieve
A team that won't be beat, can't be beat
Champions are not made in the pool. Champions are made from something deep inside: A desire, a dream, and a vision. They have to have the last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, and they must have the skill and the will, but the will must be stronger than the skill.
The primary reason to compete is to improve yourself.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; It's what you put into the practice
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself,
the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
All things are difficult before they are easy
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do
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
If I had one wish I'd wish to be a tear...to be born in your eye, live on your cheek, and die on your lips
Silence is a text easy to misread
Everyone says you only fall in love once, but that's not true...everytime I hear your voice I fall in love again.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Excellence can only be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is sade, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.
Whats worse, a lie that draws a smile, or the truth that draws a tear?
"Sometimes you just feel tired, you feel weak, and when you feel weak you feel like you wanna just give up, but you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength and just pull that shit outta you, and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face." ~Eminem
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity
Love is giving someone the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.
A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat those who can do them absolutely no good.
Treat every person you meet as if they have a broken heart, because they probably do.
People's intentions are the key to life. When in a situation that makes you upset, take a moment to reflect and be vulnerable, and realize that their intentions are good, and it may be your beliefs that interprets them a certain way, and not the way that was meant. With that in mind, take some deep breaths and speak from a neutral place, and your communication skills and your life will grow and flourish.
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken, probably more than once, and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend and you might even fall in love with them. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing so fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you care about. So take too many pictures, laugh too hard, and love like you've never been hurt, because every minute you spend mad or upset is a minute of happiness that you'll never get back.
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