Tone Quotes

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My definition of success is to live your life in a way
that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain -
and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel
a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett

We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

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

It is not what we get.
But who we become, what we contribute...
that gives meaning to our lives.
- Tony Robbins

Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
- Benjamin Franklin

An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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