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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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
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
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- 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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
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 can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
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
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
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
There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Yesterday is dead. Tomorrow is a dream.
Today - each today - is where the action is
where all of life occurs.
Today IS your life - your only life.
Life today to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
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
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
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
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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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