Sovereign Quotes

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

Related topics: Wisdom

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

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

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

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

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

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

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

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

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie

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