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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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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
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
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
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
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
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
A man can do only what he can do.
But if he does that each day he can sleep at night
and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
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
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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