Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
Related topics: Motivational Success
We all have a social mask, right?
We put it on, we go out, put our
best foot forward, our best image.
But behind that social mask is a personal truth,
what we really, really believe
about who we are and what we're capable of.
- Phil McGraw
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- The Buddha
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.
- John Lennon
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
It is not because life is difficult
that we do not dare.
Life is difficult
because we do not dare.
- Seneca
We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts.
- J. W. Fulbright
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
- Anonymous
Here in America we are descended in blood
and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels.
Men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
As their heirs, may we never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I hope we shall crush in its birth
the aristocracy of our monied corporations
which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial by strength,
and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson (from a letter to George Logan, Nov. 12th, 1816)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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 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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
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
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
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 don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
Truth is not only violated by falsehood;
it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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