It is one thing to say that something should be done,
by Aesop

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Related topics: Motivational Cynical

Outer show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
- Aesop

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
- Aesop

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong

One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

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

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln

Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller

Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

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

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer

When ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
- Anais Nin

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie