Tight Quotes

The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

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

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

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

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

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- 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

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

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

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

Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

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

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

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

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

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

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

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

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

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

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

There is no truth, only human opinion.
- Anonymous

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

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

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

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

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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