"As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve"

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Source : Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.63, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Emmitt Smith

#Breathing Quotes #Long Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.”
“I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.”
“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”
“There is no shame in scars, Ismae.”
“There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.”
“You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.”
“There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.”
“If I'd just paid money to watch a soccer game, I'd want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).”

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