Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Related topics: Values Service Purpose
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins
It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
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
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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 cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
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
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
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
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 roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
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
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry Kaiser
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
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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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