Stephanie Gilmore Quotes

#1. Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Stephanie Gilmore

#2. I've always had a determination to perfect whatever I'm doing. If I can't do something, I work on it until I figure it out.

Stephanie Gilmore

#3. Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations.

Stephanie Gilmore

#4. As long as I'm still surfing wherever I am, I'll always be happy.

Stephanie Gilmore

#5. Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.

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#6. Life's too short to sit around and wait.

Stephanie Gilmore

#7. What I love the most about surfing is that it's my first love. It's the first thing I can remember being consumed by.

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#8. The ocean humbles you. You can go and win a world title, but you're never going to beat the ocean.

Stephanie Gilmore

#9. Surfers are in tune with the weather because if there's a storm coming, there are waves coming. I love the rain.

Stephanie Gilmore

#10. There is, inside all our heads, the ego's rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Marianne Williamson

#11. God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#12. I have spent enough time around Puritans in general, and Boston Puritans in particular, to know what these people will tell her: lock up the library! Or

Neal Stephenson

#13. I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

Elisabeth Elliot

#14. My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

Stephanie Gilmore

#15. Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life's adventures ... they see themselves going through with smiles ... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.

Stephanie Gilmore

#17. A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#18. No, she answered, one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.

Lynda Barry