If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Related topics: Positive Inspirational Gratitude
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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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
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 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
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
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
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
The distinction between the past, present and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
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
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
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
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
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
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett
We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha
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
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus
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
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
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
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
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind -
A Mind is Only Useful When Tamed..
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.
- Cherie-Carter Scotts
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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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