If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
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
That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Can you achieve your goals?
You can't reach your goal if you haven't
defined your goals.
And you can't succeed if you don't try -
and then pick yourself up
and try again each time you fail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To achieve success, stay relaxed - not stressed.
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Leaders aren't born they are made.
And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to pay
to achieve that goal, or any goal.
- Vince Lombardi
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Believe that none of the effort you put
into coming closer to God is ever wasted -
even if in the end you don't achieve
what you are striving for.
- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If future generations are to remember us
more with gratitude than sorrow,
we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology.
We must also leave them a glimpse of the world
as it was created, not just as it looked
when we got through with it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
In most communities it is illegal
to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct
to manufacture a general war scare
in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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.
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One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
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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.
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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
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
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
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
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
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
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
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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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