Sought Quotes

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

Related topics: Values Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Service Happiness Purpose Life-Purpose

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

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

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

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

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

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

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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 only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur

Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

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

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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 true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

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

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

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

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

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

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

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

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

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez

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