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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Related topics: Positive Motivational Success
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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