Port Quotes

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

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No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung

I have always held firmly to the thought
that each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end.
- Albert Schweitzer

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

Humility must always be the portion of any man
who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers
and the sacrifices of his friends.
- 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 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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

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

I don't know what your destiny will be, but 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

It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha

Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
- Rabindranath Tagore

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

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

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

Smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind

You only live once -
but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe E. Lewis

Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Whenever you are angry, be assured that
it is not only a present evil,
but that you have increased a habit.
- Epictetus

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Hatred does not cease by hatred,
but only by love;
this is the eternal rule.
- The Buddha

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- 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

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

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