However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
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
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 no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
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
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
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
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
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
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Only those who can leave behind everything they
have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs
Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss
- don Miguel Ruiz
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
There is no security on this Earth,
there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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
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
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.
Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- The Buddha
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
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
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
You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous
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
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
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- 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
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
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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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